Jerry Stackhouse insists the Vanderbilt basketball community has a good relationship with him as a coach.
This comes after Vanderbilt (7-18, 2-10 SEC) lost 76-64 to Georgia on Wednesday night at Memorial Gymnasium, giving up six wins to the Bulldogs (15-11, 5-8). This was Stackhouse's message after the defeat. -Game skids.
“I was hired here to do a job, and I've been heading in the right direction for a long time,” Stackhouse said. “I probably heard more about our NET this year than I've ever heard before. For the last four years before that, when we were increasing the NET every year, I never heard anything about it. That never happened.”
Stackhouse said the Commodores have played the toughest schedule in the SEC thus far, but acknowledged, “We played some of the toughest teams early on, and this team probably wasn't one of those teams.” .
Georgia shot 53% from the field. This season, Vanderbilt won't match Bryce Drew's team's winless SEC season in 2019, but its lowest total since the 1945-46 season, when the Commodores played just 15 games. They are in danger of ending up with just a few wins. Stackhouse has not qualified for the NCAA Tournament in his five seasons with the team, but will qualify in 2022-23. Vanderbilt made his two appearances in the NIT quarterfinals.
Stackhouse did not directly answer a question about whether he felt he had done enough to keep his job, but he did comment on the statistic that the Commodores had netted more each season under him before this season. mentioned.
Stackhouse also said he regrets tweets he posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) in 2021. It wasn't immediately clear which tweet he was referring to, but he said he would retract the post if possible.
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“There were 12 disciples, but only one was Judas,” Stackhouse said. “There are a lot of people who are pulling for me, there are a lot of people who are pulling for the team, and I think about them and keep doing my job and focusing on them. 'And I'm going to live with the consequences from that.' ”
Alia Gerson covers Vanderbilt athletics for The Tennessean. Contact her at agerson@gannett.com or on her Twitter. @Alia Garson.
