Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

Note: For some reason Jake’s account isn’t letting him post yet, so I’m posting this on his behalf.   Again, I’m delighted to have his contributions on here! - PhilipVU94

I will provide the counterpoint to Phillip’s football prediction that “2-10 is more likely than 4-8, and… 1-11 is more likely than 6-6”.  I think he’s wrong [...]

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I mean that in a couple of different ways.   College football has become such a morass of cheating and of actors posing as college students that, as much as I love some things about it, I really think it would be best for everyone if the sport just collapsed under its own dishonesty, birthing something [...]

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From Marginal Revolution, via Matthew Yglesias, comes this fascinating graphic of IQ (or Wunderlic) by position:

So Vanderbilt ought to be an offensive juggernaut year after year.  Or something.

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I’d like to welcome Jake Lowery who’ll be guest blogging here.   I’ve already reposted one post by him, Jake and I have always seen eye-to-eye on a lot (the value of luck metrics) but not everything (he’s a good deal less pessimistic about this football season, for one thing).   In either case I know that [...]

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