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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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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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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One of the joys of getting more involved in the college sports blogosphere has been finding the sort of longer analytical articles that I always expected to be better-suited to blogs and less-well-suited to message boards.
This one is only directly related to us in that it discusses the Week 1 play of our rival and [...]

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After Beecher’s struggles in game one of this year, and Smelley’s relative success, Coach Steve Spurrier has chosen to go with Smelley as the starter against Vanderbilt. Besides opening up near-unlimited possibilities for Vandy fans’ ESPN acronym signs (Every Smelley Pass Ncomplete?), this move ensures that freshman Stephen Garcia is unlikely to see near-term [...]

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