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- joined Jun 12, 2008
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Look, if you supported Vandy football and the Washington Redskins, you'd be drankin' at 8 AM too.
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Silly Season 2013: The Case For Vanderbilt FC
So if you're any kind of patriotic American, you stayed up late to watch the US Mens National Soccer Team do their best work of the Klinsmann era last night. They were fluid, they were dynamic,...
For the Graduating Class of 2013
It's been fifteen years since I stood where you were, out on Alumni Lawn in those preternaturally straight ranks of chairs. I was just back for the ceremony, because technically I graduated in...
Next Year Is Here Already.
For the teams that started their seasons in 2011, it was a miracle year. Vandy baseball wins the SEC title, wins the super-regional in spectacular fashion, goes to the College World Series and...
Silly Season 2013: The Winning Look
So I made notes toward this post during the bowl game. Then I went out and drank about six Vandy Lifestyles (that's two parts Makers Mark and one part St George Spirits absinthe, shaken and served...
Another helping of complete bowls***
So I'm sitting on the worst conference call of all time, bored to tears (NO YOU DO NOT NEED TO MAKE SURE EUDORA WILL WORK IT IS ALMOST 2013) and I decided to start totaling up the bowls and teams. ...
Did anybody else get this email this morning?
GREETINGS AND BLESSINGS UPON YOU MY FRIEND. I AM MR DR DAVID HART, DIERECTOR OF THE ATHLETICS AT THE TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE UNIVERSITY. I AM CHARGED WITH LOCATING ONE WHO HAS A SURNAME SIMILAR TO...
Bowl follies, the way it used to be, and how it ought to be in future...
Bowls are funny things. In 2010, a record of 8-4 was enough to get Connecticut the Big East championship and a berth in a BCS bowl. In 2012, a record of 8-4 is good enough to get Vanderbilt...
The Hangover, Week 12
* Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnn. My Vol mother is in town, and it turns out you can't mix painkillers, Xanax, extra-strength anti-depressants, muscle relaxants and reserve Syrah...well you can...
The Hangover, week 11
* BRAND. NEW. VANDERBILT. (drops mic) * Ok, apparently I have to get this up to a minimum word count. What else can you say? Everybody came to play...
The Hangover, week 10
In which a 40-year-old Commodore supporter who would rather have no booze at all than Bud Light tries to unpack the results of the most recent Vanderbilt football game. * First and most, best...
The Hangover, Week 9
In which a 40-year-old Commodore supporter whose doctor won't let him drink until Wednesday unpacks the result of today's (yes, today's) 40 Ounces Of Whoop Ass. * Man, Kentucky is awful. I...
The Hangover, Week 8
In which a 40-year-old Commodore supporter juggling a World Series and Alton Brown in concert attempts to unpack the results of last night's Vanderbilt football game. * I very nearly shat...
The Hangover, week 7
In which a 40-year-old Commodore supporter who's just getting around to downloading Watch The Throne unpacks the results of Saturday's Vanderbilt-Auburn game. * The first drive was everything I...
No Favors
First, go check this out. It's an article in the Sporting News last June about non-conference scheduling in BCS conferences in 2012. It's several articles, actually; I merely linked the one...
The Hangover, week 6
In which a 40-year-old Commodore supporter with a vertical iron smoker and a sack of hickory chips tries to make sense of Vanderbilt football. If we have even average containment on the QB, we...
The Hangover, Week 5
In which a 40-year old Commodore supporter stuck in the throes of Sober October tries to unpack the results of Saturday's victory in a road conference game. Honest confession time: I still haven't...
The Hangover, week 4
In which a 40 year old Commodore supporter stares at the empty handle of Bulleit while wondering a) why the air tastes like absinthe and b) how he's going to get this hobnailed boot out of his...
The Hangover, Week 3 (airport wireless iPad edition)
IN WHICH a 40-year old Commodore supporter with more mouth than sense travels 4500 miles in six days with no socks to attend his first home game in sixteen years. I knew going in that this game...
The Hangover, Week 2
IN WHICH a 40-year old Commodore with a handle of Bulleit and a water glass tries to unpack the result of Vanderbilt's football game. * Worst loss of the Franklin era, and definitely a...
The Hangover, Week 1
This should have been Frontpage'd on Friday, but I was stuck with wedding duty, so it's going up now. My apologies, since this is a pretty good recap of Thursday's action - CD. IN WHICH a...
Shameless Selfish Request for AoG-ers
If I can indulge myself here...the wife and I are looking to discharge our familial duties by knocking out the obligatory trip to the old country in October, thus sparing ourselves the ignomy of...
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VCDW Cashes In; Officially Becomes Athletic Director
8Giving up his role as general counsel and university secretary, but staying on VLS faculty and officially assuming the title of AD, which will legit make him (presumably) the highest-paid athletic director in college sports. Given his track record so far, this is a gold-letter day for Vanderbilt sports.
Lafonte Thorogood transferring from Vanderbilt
3The Tennessean is now making it official: Lafonte Thorogood, possibly the most heralded name in the whirlwind 2011 James Franklin recruiting derby, is leaving the Commodores. Thorogood, who was...
Welcome Eric McClellan
As of late Monday night, Vanderbilt's men's basketball Commodores have a new transfer. Eric McClellan comes to us from one year at the University of Tulsa, where the 6-4 guard averaged 8.5ppg. ...
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Sheldon Jeter Is Your Newest MBB Commodore
3With scholarships to spare, we need bodies - and if one of them is a Rivals 150 forward described as "a 3 in the body of a 4", so much the better. Three-star small forward announced today that he'll attend Vanderbilt next season, giving Kevin Stallings his highest-rated recruit for 2012. Jeter, a 6'7", 210 pound swingman, is a lithe forward who could turn into a power forward threat if he can continue to grow in the coming seasons. He turned down offers from Wisconsin, Penn State, South Carolina, and Kansas State to join Stallings's rebuilding effort next season. Welcome Sheldon - and get ready to play SOON.
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He's gone
1John Jenkins passed up the NBA draft once already - to do it twice would be asking an awful lot. Personally, I'm pulling hard for him to wind up with the Warriors, the Kings, or the Hornets when the NBA eventually caves and lets Larry Ellison move them to San Jose. Thanks for everything, Flamethrower. Give 'em hell.
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ESPN: Franklin wants to tweak schedule
5I'm of two minds about this. I want to play quality OOC opponents, especially big-name programs like Ohio State, because I think that's a true measuring stick nationally and those are big wins. But in a world where nobody plays more than one meaningful OOC opponent ever, it seems like unilateral disarmament to load up the schedule with anything other than Presbyterian, East Roast Beef and Girl Scout Troop 266. Where's the correct divide? I don't want to go full-Auburn here, but we only got to bowl eligibility last year by going 4-0 OOC. Can we afford not to schedule down?
The Senior Moment
They could have left. Festus Ezeli and Jeffery Taylor had guys in their ears (as did John Jenkins) talking about the NBA, about first round picks, about the kind of money that makes it a lot easier...
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(FLASH AUDIO) Eric Prisbell of the Washington Post talks to the Sports Junkies about the O'Brien case
The Washington Post's Vanderbilt James Franklin Maryland Terps beat reporter Eric Prisbell talked to the Sports Junkies on WJFK 106.7 in DC this morning. Clip is about 18 minutes and goes on at length about the big picture in Maryland athletics. Most notable nugget: the suggestion that the tampering charge was filed for the purpose of sandbagging any chance of Vanderbilt making a run...
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Jenkins: Randy Edsall has Maryland entering uncharted waters
The always-excellent Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post absolutely goes in on Randy Edsall. If this was ever really about Vanderbilt, it's long since passed that.
