OK, I won't go into the non-revenue sports where VU is in many cases excelling, because many people here would just say they are irrelevant.
Let's focus on football, men's basketball and baseball, probably the three most
high-profile sports on most college campuses.
Going to a bowl game in the first and making the NCAA tournament in the other two are generally considered the signs of a successful season or program. Sure, teams want to do more than just qualify for those, but still those are significant accomplishments in most people's eyes.
And let's use the SEC as the standard, since we know it is probably the cheatingest and most competitive conference out there.
So within that framework, out of the 14 universities in the SEC, how many do you think went to a bowl game and made the NCAA tournament in baseball last year and made the NCAA tournament in men's basketball this year?
Got to be a bunch, right? The SEC is such a dominant conference.
Let's name a few who didn't:
Our friends at Tennessee.
The Alabama Crimson Tide.
The cheaters at Ole Miss.
LSU and Georgia, which seem to have so many advantages.
Now for those who did:
Florida (no surprise there).
South Carolina.
And the final school, where the chancellor and the administration don't care about sports, according to some here, and where there is a move by the administration to actually have the university leave or get kicked out of the SEC, according to others, who is this overachiever, filled with miracle workers?
Your
Vanderbilt
University
Commodores.
Anchor Down!
Let's focus on football, men's basketball and baseball, probably the three most
high-profile sports on most college campuses.
Going to a bowl game in the first and making the NCAA tournament in the other two are generally considered the signs of a successful season or program. Sure, teams want to do more than just qualify for those, but still those are significant accomplishments in most people's eyes.
And let's use the SEC as the standard, since we know it is probably the cheatingest and most competitive conference out there.
So within that framework, out of the 14 universities in the SEC, how many do you think went to a bowl game and made the NCAA tournament in baseball last year and made the NCAA tournament in men's basketball this year?
Got to be a bunch, right? The SEC is such a dominant conference.
Let's name a few who didn't:
Our friends at Tennessee.
The Alabama Crimson Tide.
The cheaters at Ole Miss.
LSU and Georgia, which seem to have so many advantages.
Now for those who did:
Florida (no surprise there).
South Carolina.
And the final school, where the chancellor and the administration don't care about sports, according to some here, and where there is a move by the administration to actually have the university leave or get kicked out of the SEC, according to others, who is this overachiever, filled with miracle workers?
Your
Vanderbilt
University
Commodores.
Anchor Down!
