July 17, 2007
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Nashville, Tenn. – Vanderbilt Head Coach Bobby Johnson will spend an hour discussing the upcoming season in studio Tuesday afternoon with the hosts of Nashville’s highest rated sports talk radio show.
Johnson will appear on The Sports Zone on WGFX FM-104.5, co-hosted by George Plaster, Willy Daunic and Darren McFarland. The one-hour segment starts at 5:00 p.m., CT.
FM-104.5 will serve as the flagship radio station for both Vanderbilt football and men’s basketball for the fourth consecutive year.
Johnson is preparing for his sixth season at the helm of the Commodore program, the longest tenure of a Vanderbilt football coach in more than 20 years.
The upcoming Commodore squad features more 17 returning starters – nine on offense and eight on defense – and more than 50 players that contributed on the field one year ago.
Top returnees include 2006 All-America wide receiver Earl Bennett, who enters his junior campaign within reach of several Southeastern Conference career receiving marks, Butkus and Nagurski award candidate Jonathan Goff at interior linebacker, and Outland Trophy candidate Chris Williams at offensive tackle. Several other former or preseason All-SEC recipients, including senior offensive tackle Brian Stamper, senior defensive end Curtis Gatewood, senior defensive tackle Theo Horrocks and junior safety Reshard Langford, return for the season. Other key starters, including junior quarterback Chris Nickson, senior running back Cassen Jackson-Garrison, junior placekicker Bryant Hahnfeldt, junior receiver George Smith and senior linebacker Marcus Buggs, also are back this year.
For the first time in more than 100 years, the Commodores will play eight games on campus this year. The team opens with four straight home games: Richmond on Sept. 1, Alabama on Sept. 8, Ole Miss on Sept. 15 and Eastern Michigan on Sept. 29. Other home games in the second half of the season are against Georgia, Oct. 13; Miami (Ohio), Oct. 27; Kentucky, Nov. 10; and Wake Forest, Nov. 24.
Last week, Vanderbilt surpassed the 10,000-plateau in football season ticket sales, and is well ahead of sales in recent years. Season ticket packages starting as low as $99 each for Vanderbilt’s eight-game home schedule are currently available at the Commodore Athletic Ticket Office in McGugin Center on campus, via telephone at (615) 322-3544, or online at Vanderbilt’s official athletic website, www.vucommodores.com.
