Good morning.
The last time we had to cover a coaching search three years ago, we were pretty well prepared to have to do it: it had been rumored for well over a month that Vanderbilt was going to be in the market for a new head coach. This, however, was unexpected. Making a coaching change this soon into a head coach’s tenure was, in almost every way possible, a very un-Vanderbilt move. In fact, the only real comparison I can think of was Rod Dowhower in 1996, who got fired after back-to-back 2-9 seasons to open his career, and that involved a new athletic director and a very questionable hire from the jump.