Anchor Drop, October 14, 2019: The Pitchforks Are Out

Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY SportsGood morning.

As I’m writing this (it’s currently 9:50 PM on Sunday night, if this goes up as scheduled and something has changed I take no responsibility for what I’m writing), Derek Mason is still Vanderbilt’s head football coach. But it doesn’t appear that will be the case for much longer. Or, at least, nobody wants it to be.

We’ve reached that point in the coach’s tenure where even the Tennessean is openly saying Vanderbilt should move on. When legitimate journalists (no, not me) are openly saying this, you can be pretty sure that the coach has basically no remaining support. It’s one thing for internet commenters and bloggers to say that a coach…