Vanderbilt needs a new men's basketball coach. On Sunday, Kevin Stallings confirmed he was leaving Nashville to take the head coach position at Pittsburgh.
Kevin Stallings spent 17 years on the baseline at Memorial Gym. His 332 victories are more than anyone else who ever coached the Commodores. No one program history has qualified for the NCAA Tournament more times than Stallings' seven appearances. His teams recorded 20 or more wins in eight of his 17 seasons.
While Stallings unquestionably raised the profile of Vanderbilt basketball and brought future NBA talent like Derrick Byars, Jeffery Taylor, Festus Ezeli, John Jenkins, Wade Baldwin, Damian Jones, and Luke Kornet to campus, his lack of postseason success wore on an impatient fanbase.