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Anchor Drop, September 12, 2018: The AD Search Begins

Good morning.

The big news from Tuesday, obviously, was David Williams’ retirement announcement. If you’re looking for my opinion, my opinion is that overall, Williams was good for Vanderbilt, with a specific blind spot in recent years regarding the football stadium — which, let’s be fair, he may just have preferred that his successor implement his own vision for that.

So now, the search for a new AD begins. Adam Sparks has a rundown of what the new AD will have to deal with (read: the stadium), while over at the Tulsa World, Tulsa athletic director Derrick Gragg — who played football at Vanderbilt in the 1990s — is our first publicly mentioned candidate.