Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

The jeers were reverberating in unison around water coolers across America last week. A fresh start to the week, the obligatory Super Bowl exclamations and lamentations, followed by this:
“…So I hear Bobby Knight’s itching to add another red sweater to his collection.”
“Oh yeah! I read that last night. How old is he, anyway?”
“Around 70, I [...]

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Tennessee fans are upset that the Nashville media is so thoroughly on our bandwagon.
TBH reVOLver may have a point, especially in that “The problem with Nashville media… is that when they adopt a team, they expect all local people to get on board or be damned.”   From what I can tell, as someone who cares [...]

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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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I’m listening to a SC- or Carolinas-based radio show called “Primetime with the Packman” that I’m getting via WWFN Lake City.   (Windows audio link)   Obviously more about what’s wrong with USC than anything about praising Vanderbilt; the host has already called us the “doormat of the SEC” three times in about 10 minutes.   Well, we’re [...]

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It was fun to hear Jim Rome talk about our win over “Southern Carolina University”, if for no other reason than that it’s one more data point about how our sports program is perceived nationally.
In the show’s intro, he certainly recalled Spurrier’s comment upon taking the Redskins job to the effect that, “There aren’t any [...]

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Just saw a promo for E:360 announcing that they’ll have David Price as one of their three or four stories on Tuesday.   Definitely something worth checking out.

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The only coup that can remotely compare with New England foisting Suzyn Waldman off on New York Yankees fans would have to be the University of Tennessee leaving Paul Finebaum to be the state of Alabama’s problem.   Discuss.

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Sadly, the online version of this article doesn’t appear to have included the 1-to-12 ranking that was in the print version.� � Or maybe I just can’t find it.
In any case, they picked us 2nd, one game behind UTK at 12-4 in the conference.� � That’s fair, and implies that with a few [...]

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The lead from Joe Biddle’s column:

It was a must-win game Saturday night for both Ole Miss and Vanderbilt.
More importantly, it was a game neither team could afford to lose.

Err, isn’t that redundant?
I have fond memories of the “Write like Joe Biddle” contest on Vandymania a few years back. � I think I may have [...]

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As part of its All Predators All the Time round-the-clock vigil, WGFX just had some guy on who claimed that the Titans, “represented our city in front of a billion people in 1999.”� � (paraphrased)
No.
The NFL likes to quote “audience” figures for the Super Bowl, understating that the definition of audience in this case [...]

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