Video: DC Nick Howell, LBs Coach Lezynski, DBs Coach Jackson talk after Wed. Aug. 16 practice

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Post-practice Wednesday comments...

DC Nick Howell

LB Coach Nick Lezynski

DB Coach Dan Jackson

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The George Plaster Show is broadcasting live from the Vanderbilt practice field today (Wednesday afternoon)... A.J. Swann and Coach Lea are scheduled to appear... you can watch live here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfCIh2w ... lasterShow

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Coach Lezynski mentioned Nicholas Rinaldi, and the interviewer asked a follow-up question about him... he's another one of those really great walk-on stories... the interviewer is not too well-informed; Rinaldi only started playing HS football TWO years ago, but last year Barton Simmons invited him to walk on at Vandy, and he turned down some full rides elsewhere in order to do so... as a freshman walk-on, he actually played at the Star position and got into a couple of games, and made a tackle... this year he's at LB, and lo and behold, is in position to get some playing time... dude is 6-3, 232, great size...

So here's his background story...

Dover, Mass.: Recent Dover-Sherborn graduate Nick Rinaldi a three-sport TVL All-Star during senior year

Yeah, it's another example of what Simmons is doing with the walk-on program.

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The George Plaster Show is broadcasting live from the Vanderbilt practice field today (Wednesday afternoon)... A.J. Swann and Coach Lea are scheduled to appear... you can watch live here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfCIh2w ... lasterShow

Hope nobody watched all the way through this! Plaster even had a question for Coach Lea about the Treylon Burks injury (heaven help us). But it might be worth watching now if you skip to the good parts.

00:01:30 - A.J. Swann
01:45:00 - Clark Lea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfCIh2wfL68

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FWIW The Tennessean has this...

Tennessean: Seven Vanderbilt football freshmen to watch in 2023, including Martel Hight
(by Aria Gerson)

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Coach Lezynski mentioned Nicholas Rinaldi, and the interviewer asked a follow-up question about him... he's another one of those really great walk-on stories... the interviewer is not too well-informed; Rinaldi only started playing HS football TWO years ago, but last year Barton Simmons invited him to walk on at Vandy, and he turned down some full rides elsewhere in order to do so... as a freshman walk-on, he actually played at the Star position and got into a couple of games, and made a tackle... this year he's at LB, and lo and behold, is in position to get some playing time... dude is 6-3, 232, great size...

So here's his background story...

Dover, Mass.: Recent Dover-Sherborn graduate Nick Rinaldi a three-sport TVL All-Star during senior year

Yeah, it's another example of what Simmons is doing with the walk-on program.

The 10.9 time for the 100M might have been hand timed, hard to tell. But even off by a tenth or three, that's pretty fast