Vandy247 Podcast

The Chicago Tribune's Bob Narang joins the podcast to discuss Northern Illinois, VU's Sept. 28 opponent, and also discuss an exciting game the two teams played in Nashville in the late-1990s.

If you could to change how and when Vanderbilt schedules games, what would you change? Chris Lee and Seabass address that, starting with this year's slate. They also talk about fall camp, including an interesting quarterback hypothetical regarding Deuce Wallace and Riley Neal, and take a bunch of mailbag questions.

Podcast host and VandySports.com founder is joined by former partners Jesse Johnson and Mike Rapp, who each worked at the site for about a decade and helped build it into what it is. We've posted the completely unedited audio of a two-plus hour conversation between the three as they go back to the beginning to talk about how they got started, the highs and lows, the struggles, the good times, the bad times, the funny times, and everything in between.

A year after The Tennessean's Adam Sparks and Joe Rexrode wrote a much-publicized story on Vanderbilt and its inadequate treatment of athletics, Sparks recounts how the story came together, what's changed at VU and whether he'd do the story differently if he had it to do over. He and host Chris Lee also answer questions on the athletic climate now under Malcolm Turner, discuss the outlook for basketball coach Jerry Stackhouse and also hit on some issues related to football's fall camp.

A surprising number of roles remain unsettled heading into fall camp, which opens August 1. Chris Lee and Seabass discuss that in detail and also answer several mailbag questions.

Melbourne, Florida radio show host Mark Moses joins the program to talk about the Florida Gators, the SEC in general, and a few other things, including the epic Reds-Pirates fight on Wednesday night.

CatsIllustrated.com's Justin Rowland tells us what to expect from Kentucky, VU's Nov. 16 opponent, entering fall camp. Justin also takes listener questions and updates the state of the baseball and basketball programs.

Chris Clark, who writes at GamecockCentral.com covering South Carolina, stops in to preview the Gamecocks for this season, and also answer a few of your questions.

Ron Bargatze, once an assistant and also a radio color commentator for Commodore basketball, joins the show to assess the state of VU hoops and offer insights into past questions to which listeners wanted answers.

Chris and Seabass take on some more "buy or sell" questions regarding the 2019 football team, discuss an interesting dynamic with the early football season scheduling and dive in to facilities improvements (and what VU should realistically try to do) as well as potential pay-offs with those.