The Unofficial Vanderbilt Commodores Blog * Now With Fewer Law Degrees!
October 4th delivered a new type of painful loss to Alabama. For much of Vanderbilt football history, the pain has been because the loss was by a ridiculous number of points or was never competitive. The most recent matchup was a 9-point game with a garbage time TD on 4th and 2 thrown on top. […]
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The School: Louisiana State University Record: 5-1 (2-1 in the SEC) Ranking: AP #10, Coaches’ Poll #10, and SP+ #17 Mascot: Mike the Tiger, both a typical mascot and the real-life badass tiger (Mike VII). Seriously, the enclosure is one of the coolest on-campus features that I have ever seen. Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Born […]
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For the first time in conference play, Vanderbilt performed up to their standard against an outmatched opponent. The scoreless draw with LSU, loss at Texas, and 1-0 win over Auburn were all chances to stamp out opponents decisively, but the Commodores were 1-1-1 in those matches. The standard was met against Missouri with a pair […]
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Letters… we get letters… we get stacks and stacks of letters… Question from Ofermod: How much of the poor performance was due to just not being truly ready/comfortable with a high-visiblity game in a high-pressure environment with high expectations, and how much of it was actual issues that need to be adddressed? And does this […]
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Week 8 was a second consecutive week missing more than we hit after 4 straight weeks looking smart-ish. The staff was a collective 21-27. Christian was the best performer at 5-3. Cole and Import were right behind at 4-4. Tom and I just missed out on .500 at 3-5. Andrew scuffled to a 2-6 mark. […]
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The buyout? A whopping 49 million dollars. Ouch!
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