Vandy247 Podcast

Chris Lee + Joey Dwyer break down the Mark Byington hire, signifying the beginning of a new era for Vanderbilt Basketball.

Malcolm Turner is gone, but there are still a lot of questions to be answered about how it went down. Chris Lee and George Plaster explore those and the general climate around Vanderbilt athletics in the not-so-distant past and touch briefly on facilities plans.

The NCAA pulled the plug on darn-near everything as Chris Lee and Seabass were recording a podcast. The two react in real time and try to process it all, including implications for players, coaches, media fans, eligibility concerns, etc., and Chris's frustrations of why what's literally a life-and-death situation in many instances has become unnecessarily political.

Guest George Plaster joins the podcast to talk about the rstrategic plan that Vanderbilt released on Wednesday, and Candice ee's press conference that followed. Host Chris Lee has learned some context that explains some of what went on and what's been going on, and some more context on why ex-chancellor Nick Zeppos treated athletics as he did.

Luke Wyatt, who worked at Vanderbilt for 40 years as an equipment manager before retiring two years ago, knows VU athletics inside and out. Luke gives revealing background on how Vanderbilt operates and why it does the things it does, how budgets work, how decisions were made in the past, the multitude of facilities plans that came and went without any action, and much more. Luke tells some fascinating stories on and off the field from his time at VU, including one on Nick Zeppos at the end.