Chris Lee of VandySports interview

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Michael Bratton/SEC Mike

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🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Publisher of VandySports.com Chris Lee (found on Twitter @chrislee70) joins the show to talk Commodores football. Make sure to check out Chris's podcasts: Vandy Sports’s Podcast and Southeastern 14 (found on Twitter @14Southeastern) Topics include: — thoughts on Derek Mason landing the Auburn DC job? — locking down a recruiting class despite Derek Mason being let go — any new additions from that class that could make an impact in 2021? — Do you feel a renewed sense of commitment to football under Clark Lea? The AD and the football coach both Vandy grads, does that speak to stability moving forward? — locker rooms being upgraded, any other renovations planned? — best hire made by Lea? — one hire you have the biggest question about? — heavy NFL influence on the staff and the direction of the program, thoughts on that? — thoughts on Barton Simmons joining the program — scholarship numbers like for Vandy in 2021 after 15 players left via the portal — when does spring practice start and what are the big story lines for you heading into the spring? The podcast is sponsored by Justin Hamilton of the Federal Savings Bank. Reach out to Justin at the link below and make sure Mike and & Cousin Shane sent you! http://www.thefederalsavingsbank.com/justinhamilton We finally have t-shirts for sale! Check out our merchandise store featuring shirts, hoodies, stickers, coffee mugs, pillows, phone cases and more: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/thatsecpodcast?ref_id=19055 Donate to cousin Shane’s beer fund via CashApp: $thatSECpodcast Show music comes from Crimson Calamity: https://www.crimsoncalamitymusic.com/ Advertising inquiries: thatsecpodcast@gmail.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/that-sec-football-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Make it down. Okay. I want to say thanks to our guest here. Chris Lee, of course,
0:06.2	all Vanderbilt fans know that name. He's the publisher of VandySports.com. And he's the host
0:12.4	of the Vandy Sports Podcast. You got to subscribe to it. That's how I get all my Vanderbilt news.
0:18.0	And he's also got a new podcast out there. It's called The Southeastern 14. Chris Lee,
0:24.7	thanks for joining me so much. I really do appreciate you. You bet. It's always good to be on with you.
0:29.4	And you wouldn't believe how many Vanderbilt fans that we have of our podcasts that say no one
0:35.3	gives enough attention to the Vanderbilt Commodore. So we always try to give attention to,
0:40.8	we've had you on the show. We've had Bruno Reagan, who I got introduced through the VandySports
0:46.2	Podcast. He's outstanding. So we want to give some love to Vanderbilt unlike a lot of other SEC
0:52.4	podcasts. And I want to start, most of the, I really want to hit on Clark Lee and his coaching staff,
0:58.5	but I just wanted to get your quick thoughts on coach Derek Mason landing at Auburn. And
1:04.4	what do you think about the fit there of him running Brian Harson's defense? You know, I think
1:09.3	it's a fairly good hire for them. A lot of people are going to judge Derek Mason by his head coach
1:15.7	and tenure, right? And that's way different than being a coordinator. Being a head coach is in a
1:21.7	lot of ways a different skill set. And I always thought that the requirements and responsibilities of
1:27.6	that were not Derek strong suits. I don't think he's a bad coach, but being a head coach is as much
1:34.0	being a CEO as it is being a football coach, right? And I think Derek is a football coach
1:40.4	who's not a CEO if that makes sense. In other words, you look at what he did defensively in other
1:46.0	places like it's Stanford. His defense has performed pretty well, but when it becomes managing an
1:51.5	entire program and handling scholarships and PR and press conference and all the things that go
1:58.3	that, that's when it started to fall out of his wheelhouse. But if you just let Derek stick to
2:04.0	X's and O's and running a defense, I think there's been times where he's done pretty well at that.
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