Current Vanderbilt freshman Tyler Tanner knows Garland personally. “If there's a Mount Rushmore at BA, for sure he's definitely on it for athletics,” Tanner said of Garland. “He gives back.

But each did. Freshman Tyler Tanner, who’d committed to Vanderbilt’s previous coaching staff out of Brentwood Academy, wanted to play at home. But Tanner also said, “I could see that coach ...