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In news from the world of successful football teams, Vanderbilt will be going to a bowl game for the first time in 26 years after they racked up win #6 last weekend. I for one could not be prouder of the Dores. The lil’ team that could might have saved Steve Spurrier’s job (and maybe Tuberville too… maybe) by actually stringing along some success in the SEC for the first time since the conference actually was something of note. I think I speak for most of America when I say that another offseason of high profile SEC coach recruiting will make me sick, to say nothing of how it might compromise the UW coaching search.
Fair enough, but check out their website inviting fans on the “Bowl Bandwagon“. It invites fans to join the team at whatever bowl game they end up in. Fair enough, but included in these lists of possible destinations are all the BCS games. Including the championship game. I mean, sure. There is a technical possibility that a 6-4 team (with two games to play!) could play in the BCS title game. Mostly, that possibility involves a nationwide scandal making a ton of programs ineligible. Either that or planes going down.
But hell, you can’t blame a fan base from keeping every technicality intact. It’s the first time in 26 years!
(PS: for Husky fans it basically feels like 26 years… Dear God help us.)
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Its listing possibilities and to be honest IT IS A POSSIBILITY. Get a fucking grip, don’t be sour because UW is in the new Vanderbilt.
Whoo! New Vanderbilt!
We will not get a grip. We will be sour. We follow Seattle sports.
[...] • It’s called “managing expectations”: We don’t know how to break this to you Vanderbilt, but … you ain’t going to the Rose Bowl. [Hot Dog and Friends] [...]
We’ve arrived. We are attracting guys like this. Infuriated that we dare discount Vandy’s chances to get to the parade of roses. Cheers, sir. You are correct.
Ha! This is pretty funny. Vandy thinks they have arrived, because they because bowl eligible for the first time in 26 years. They think they will attract new talent to come in and play. Here’s the thing… It doesn’t matter who you attract to come play for you if the guy can’t make a 25 or so on his ACT and graduate with above a 3.0 GPA. Which is probably lower than the standards to be admitted to Vanderbilt. I think its absolutely ridiculous that Vandy is allow to let retards come play football for them just like every other school in the SEC, and then have the gawl to charge ~$50,000 per year tuition because you are an “academic” university. Its a freaking joke.
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Cole, I can assure that Vandy does not operate their program “just like every other school in the SEC” and that the work Coach Johnson has done there is a minor miracle. Do a little research into how the Vandy “athletic department” operates and you’ll see that he’s most definitely operating with some major hurdles. The hurdles are not impossible though, and while Vanderbilt will never have the depth that some schools in the SEC can amass, I think they can put together a solid first string with a little depth.
That’s their best case scenario: to be like a Northwestern or Stanford. If they are past the days of the Floridas and LSUs being able to bring in all the scrubs by halftime, and can make it to a bowl every few seasons, that’s light years ahead of where this program was a decade ago.
I hope Vandy pays what they need to in order to keep Bobby Johnson there (I expect Clemson to give him a nice offer).
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