Vanderbilt is expected to make a decision on whether to move the football team off-campus to a proposed Fairgrounds stadium by October, per the Tennessean’s Joey Garrison.
The reason is simple: Nashville’s MLS ownership group, headed by John Ingram, is expected to present a final stadium proposal to the Nashville Metro Council later this year. Vanderbilt’s decision would affect the capacity of the proposed stadium: to accommodate Vanderbilt football, the new stadium would need to seat around 35,000, while an MLS-only stadium would be smaller than that. So Vanderbilt’s decision will have to come prior to the final stadium proposal being submitted.