Randy Shannon or Bud Foster to Vanderbilt?

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Stanford assistant Greg Roman and Virginia Tech assistant Bud Foster said they would be willing to listen if contacted about Vanderbilt's football coaching vacancy.

Vanderbilt also has added former Miami (Fla.) Coach Randy Shannon to its list of desirable candidates, a source said.

Shannon was fired Saturday, the same day Robbie Caldwell resigned as Vanderbilt's coach. He could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Roman, Stanford's associate head coach/assistant head coach of offense, wrote in an email to The Tennessean that he had not heard from Vanderbilt and was busy recruiting and preparing for Stanford's bowl game.

But he added: "I would find it very interesting however, because of my experience bringing another academic institution to the top of the BCS football world. Vandy is very similar to Stanford!"

Foster, Virginia Tech's defensive coordinator, said he hadn't heard from Vanderbilt.

"It's an SEC school, a BCS conference," Foster told reporters in Virginia. "It would be very intriguing from that standpoint if it ever happened.

"That's the toughest job, probably, in the SEC. You see schools like Northwestern and Stanford and programs like that, and I think academic institutions, you can get a good quality kid in there. Tennessee is a tough state to recruit in. I know … we've been there before. And it's in a tough conference."

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