As a Kentucky basketball fan living in Nashville, I beg you guys to take Jerry Stackhouse away from Vanderbilt. He coached rings around Coach Cal all three times this year, making chicken salad out of a chicken poop roster.
He inherited a complete dumpster fire when he took over a team that lost 19 games in a row, their best two players, and then his best player was hurt. He turned Aaron Nesmith, Saben Lee, and Scottie Pippen, Jr., from no chance prospects into NBA players.
Vanderbilt is as hard or harder than Northwestern to get into, and they don't give exceptions for athletes. Stackhouse can flat out coach. Had he had Kentucky's roster, he probably has us in the Final Four. He beat us twice without his top player available, stopping our inside game with no big man playing. Not only did he outcoach Coach Cal, he did the same to Rick Barnes, Bruce Pearl, Eric Musselman, and especially Juwan Howard in the NIT. I'm sure a lot of SEC fans from Kentucky, Tennessee, Auburn, and Arkansas would chip in to contribute to you guys hiring him away from the league, so we can get easy W's over Vandy again.
