Anchor Drop, June 7, 2020: 90 Days to Kickoff

Good morning.

We are now 90 days away from Vanderbilt football’s scheduled season opener against Mercer. #90 for the Commodores is Cameron Tidd — the other senior defensive tackle with starting experience. Like yesterday’s player Drew Birchmeier, Tidd has started 24 games in his Vanderbilt career — though unlike Birchmeier, Tidd did not start all 12 games last season (starting eight.)

Optional Musical Accompaniment

The MLB Draft is on Wednesday and Thursday, and here’s a report indicating that the Orioles seem to be leaning toward drafting Vanderbilt’s Austin Martin with the second pick.

Vanderbilt is moving to Phase 2 of its campus plan tomorrow; here’s the Hustler on what that means.

Robbie Weinstein at 247 Sports looks at Vanderbilt’s wide receiver logjam.

At SI, Greg Arias talks about SEC quarterback rankings.

Updated: When are sports coming back?

Not necessarily an “update” per se, but Vanderbilt alum Buster Olney talks about how baseball can save itself beyond 2021.

Actual Sports on TV

We missed the early Bundesliga games, but FS1 has FC Augsburg v. FC Koln at 11:00 AM CT. No Costa Rican soccer today, however (boooooooooooooooooooo.)

And no, I don’t consider NASCAR a sport, why do you ask?