Was just reading this Matthew Fisher-Davis tweet that hit home:
Before the 2020 football, season when COVID adjustments were being decided upon conference by conference; I remember thinking, this could be the first time ever Vandy might have an advantage. We are a smaller private school with a great healthcare affiliation. Vandy for once can get ahead of the curve, be quicker on their feet in adjusting to the medical realities, giving Clark and company a leg up on the bigger, slower, dumber state schools.
How wrong I was. When other SEC schools found ways to get large portions of their fanbases into the stands, we got to see stories about our quarterback’s family having to watch the game through the windows of their hotel rooms. And then, when players’ families and select fans were invited back into the game, they were all crammed into the damn section behind the closed endzone. Bunched together up there! I remember seeing that on TV and thinking is CSL trying to make us look like the dumbest people in the conference?
**It is incredible to see, in a coaching world where coaches stay who they are (eg DM running a 3-4 D even after taking over the most successful 4-3 Vandy D in modern history); that CCL has the lack of ego and abundance of smarts to see change was needed and to bring in outside help with a record of success!
Before the 2020 football, season when COVID adjustments were being decided upon conference by conference; I remember thinking, this could be the first time ever Vandy might have an advantage. We are a smaller private school with a great healthcare affiliation. Vandy for once can get ahead of the curve, be quicker on their feet in adjusting to the medical realities, giving Clark and company a leg up on the bigger, slower, dumber state schools.
How wrong I was. When other SEC schools found ways to get large portions of their fanbases into the stands, we got to see stories about our quarterback’s family having to watch the game through the windows of their hotel rooms. And then, when players’ families and select fans were invited back into the game, they were all crammed into the damn section behind the closed endzone. Bunched together up there! I remember seeing that on TV and thinking is CSL trying to make us look like the dumbest people in the conference?
**It is incredible to see, in a coaching world where coaches stay who they are (eg DM running a 3-4 D even after taking over the most successful 4-3 Vandy D in modern history); that CCL has the lack of ego and abundance of smarts to see change was needed and to bring in outside help with a record of success!
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