The Athletic starts following along with Vanderbilt athletic director Malcolm Turner at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the McGugin Center, the building across Jess Neely Drive from Vanderbilt Stadium that serves as an athletics administration building, football building and reminder of the facilities gap between Vanderbilt and the rest of the football-crazy Southeastern Conference.



And that’s why he’s here, to meet with former Vanderbilt football players and talk about what this program needs and what can be done to provide it. Turner is there to answer questions in a discussion moderated by senior assistant athletic director Larry Leathers in the team auditorium, and also to deliver this message — a message he repeats several times Saturday — that must sound like a symphonic refrain to those who care about this program: “We always talk about the history here of doing more with less. Well, how about we do more with more? What would that look...