“I’m told former Tennessee Titans coach Jeff Fisher is a potential target for Vanderbilt. Fisher remains popular in Nashville, and new Vanderbilt athletic director Malcolm Turner wouldn’t hesitate to make a nontraditional hire.”
Well it’s not quite silly season yet, but the Nashville Scene’s reasons behind liking this idea are certainly logical ones.
At some point, Vanderbilt has to come to terms with who they are and where they fall in the hierarchy of the Southeastern Conference. Now, the ‘Dores can simply resign to the fact that they’ll constantly take flyers on youngish assistants without head-coaching experience or mid-major transplants, but that means resigning to the fact that either the coach won’t be able to compete or he will be able to but will inevitably be hired away in three or four years.