THE FRONT ROW with MARK NELKE: Next man up for Vandals, who have some pretty good ones back — and coming in

“That’s part of it; we have to have the next man ready to go,” Eck said. “Football is a game where you have to evolve your roster, you have to evolve your coaching staff, the team is bigger than any one person. So whether you have injuries, whether you have the portal, whether you have coaches leave for other jobs, that’s part of it, man. You have to adjust, and move … part of our next project is, we have a few spots to fill. We might have a few guys we can add here in the transfer portal. We have a great freshman class; we have 24 scholarship freshmen coming on in the fall, and 14 new walk-on freshmen coming in.”