According to The Tennessean, Vanderbilt quietly dropped the "interim" tag from Caldwell's title a couple of weeks ago. The decision came after school officials spent a few days in the wake of Bobby Johnson's resignation gathering information regarding Caldwell. “I think what it says is we see Robbie as our head football coach” Williams said. “I don’t want to start any speculation one way or the other, but we see him as our head football coach. We’re 100% behind him and his staff.” After Bobby Johnson announced his retirement three weeks ago and when Caldwell was named interim head coach, Williams spent a few days gathering information in preparation to remove the ‘interim’ title. During the following week, he spoke with Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos and to the university’s board of trust about lifting the interim tag. “They were all very, very supportive,” Williams said. “We just hadn’t said anything to anybody that it was lifted. That was always the plan to get to that point.” The lifting of the tag does not serve as a guarantee that Caldwell will be at Vanderbilt following this season, however. “We evaluate every year,” Williams said. “Even if you have a 20-year contract, we’re going to evaluate. We’ll evaluate all of our programs with the sport and what the goals were and the growth. I don’t think anything changes in that whether you’re interim or not interim, or whether you’re Robbie of Bobby.”
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