Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

So much one could say about the news that Boy Blunder will be moving back to the pro football ranks with the Los Angeles franchise. But really, I think this story really says everything you need to know about the human refuse that UTn hired to represent it last year.

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I don’t have anything to say about the Miss State game. Really, I don’t care to go back and review video and reports to get a clearer idea about what’s wrong with this offense. See VSL or from the State point of view For Whom the Cowbell Tolls for more about [...]

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This isn’t directly Vanderbilt-related, but I’d argue that stories of corruption in college sports are pretty important to the context in which Vanderbilt’s football and men’s basketball teams operate.
Now that I live in Memphis, it’s been sort of hard to miss all the sordid details coming out about the vacated 2008 Final Four previously claimed [...]

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Jay Coulter wrote up a lot of thoughts that more or less mirror mine about the role of college football (and more generally, sport) in US society:
If you make $50,000 a year, your hourly wage for a 40-hour work week is $24.04.
If Saban worked 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, his average hourly [...]

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While Phillip is spending the time and care to outline nearly every possible scenario and where the Dores would land under each, let me take a few minutes to speculate on the most likely scenario for this year, and what I think the SEC Tie-In bowls would look like if my guess is right.
First, lets [...]

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And for all the lessons, there will be no official reflection of the game. No comments from the coaches or players. No game reports. No spectators. No souvenirs. Only private scorebooks, individual instruction, the re-evaluation of untested egos, and the memories of the coaches, players, referees and ball boys. The revolution will not be televised.

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Guys, this loss hurt as much to me, if not more, than anyone. I vowed that if we lose this game I definitely would be not attending another game this season and sent my dad and friends a text which basically said, “I’m ready for [...]

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ESPN College Gameday actually will be coming to Nashville, and VU is up to 19th in both major polls.  I’m not sure which is a bigger deal.
To be honest, I’ve sort of minimized the whole Gameday thing in my mind in part because people make too big a deal out of ESPN’s validation and in [...]

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VU fans will mostly be pulling for Auburn because we want to see Tennessee continue to implode, of course, but is an Auburn win really best for our interests?    One school of thought says that you don’t want to play a team the week after a big loss, and I think that’s generally true. [...]

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Obviously their boosters need to get with the program.   Apparently they only pay their guys enough to motivate them for the big out of conference game each year.   If you want 13 games of performance, you gotta pay for 13 games.

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