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Will they win over 10 games?

Vanderbilt loses the remaining games, and isn’t competitive in any of them.

Season ends and 4-5 starters including Swann hit the portal.

How much time is Lea given in this scenario?

Braves lose (congrats @baseballbros), Vandy loses, Vawls W looking likely, crappy day.

Top 17. 0-0 game. G3 of the ALDS with the Mariners down 0-2. Just pitched a 1-2-3 inning.

Vandy has lost to the numbers 1, 3, 9, and 14 teams in the country. I am not making excuses, but really….

in June, if I blindly asked that question, would you have said we would have beaten any of them? We at least played 2 of them with some level of competition

Is harder than drumming up sympathy for Charles Manson because he had difficulty with potty training.

James Franklin vs ranked teams all time....

Wonder what it is?

Not good....

2:30 kick tomorrow SECN
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I’ll get us started Georgia 55 Vandy 10

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Poor defensive performance may have obscured tremendous improvement on offense and special teams, which Chris Lee and Andrew Allegretta discuss. Also, Rocko Griffin's departure leaves the running back position paper-thin; was that why we saw more of Mike Wright in running packages against Ole Miss?

Ouch

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Interesting

VU is 130th out of 131 teams in pass defense.

Oklahoma St is 126th out of 131 teams in pass defense.

Derek Mason, a defensive backs coach, is essentially responsible for 2 of the 5 worst pass defenses in the NCAA.


Derek Mason still may be a better coach than Nick Howell.

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Still in the 1st but Bama can't stop UT's offense and UT has gotten pressure on Bryce. This could get very interesting.

41-17 and that's not indicative of how bad Michigan is beating them. Penn State got a couple of fluke plays or this one would be any uglier.

Michigan has nearly 400 yards rushing and total yards is 541 to 231. Minter is an awesome DC.

2 thoughts:
1.) I like the idea of welcoming back alumni student athletes
2.) this photo makes me feel old


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Texas A&M (who looked pretty terrible against Mississippi State last week) took Alabama down to the wire tonight. South Carolina beat Kentucky on the road, Missouri played both Georgia and Florida close, Mississippi State showed they could pass and run well, and Ole Miss showed they could run and pass effectively. Unfortunately, UT looks hotter every week, while Vandy has 50+points scored on them in back to back games. It's going to be a long rest of the season.

This team has definitely improved this year. Anyone that says different doesn't know football or is just trying to stir things up.

The question is, how much improvement has actually been made? I'm pretty sure that no one knows for sure.

Total points this year so far is VU 199, opp 221.
Against 3 ranked teams, we've been outscored 56-152. Against the 3 chumps we've played, we've outscored them 143-69. And yes, before anyone says anything, Northern Illinois is a chump. They are 1-5, got beaten at home by Ball State, and just lost by 20 to Toledo. So, beating them isn't very impressive, to be honest.

Like @Chris Lee and @seadiddy said in their podcast, we are somewhere in the middle. We won't really know where until we play teams closer to our level like Mizzou and South Carolina.

I’m pretty sure we have the perfect Chancellor. He is just a great supporter of Vanderbilt athletics. He is perhaps the biggest sports fan of any of the SEC Presidents and spends a lot of time with Greg Sankey - - they are very close friends and CDD feels he is the best commissioner in all sports across the country. There is a strong collaboration there and a lot of positive support from the SEC for these Vandy United infrastructure projects. I would go as far to say the SEC and Vanderbilt athletics is CDDs #1 priority. Isn’t that wonderful?

CDD’s opinion of the SEC and Vanderbilt is for Vanderbilt to become the best overall athletic department in the league - - including football. He wants to win championships in all sports. The $300M phase of the project is very close to being fully funded and the number is being increased. There is no secret as to how far we have to go with facilities to get into the picture but he is taking extraordinary steps to make this happen. Let’s enjoy these next couple of years as we witness this transformation.

There are specific movements to take advantage of Nashville’s rapidly growing multinational corporate growth on the NIL side and a somewhat unique-to-Vanderbilt-in-the-SEC proximity play. This is a very smart strategy. He feels the NIL will be unrecognizable in a few years and will completely take over college athletics. It’s not good or bad or indifferent but rather a stark reality. College sports will be professional $ programs and you either get with it or get out. We are getting with it and aim to the best and most innovative.

Recruiting is the deal for football. Our strategy is to target the top players who are successful students especially from the southeast but naturally these are all over the country so no boundaries. We want to get the players who are considering our peer schools (not just Duke and Northwestern but also USC, Texas and Michigan) and not emphasize the low level academic non-qualifiers that are looking at Big State U football factories. This is just the reality of the situation and there are a lot of these top football student athletes to go around….however we haven’t been winning a lot of these battles especially against these big programs and he wants to specifically change that to be the #1 destination for these football players.