Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

 
Just because I don’t feel like writing about Vanderbilt football doesn’t mean I can’t vote about SEC football.
1. Alabama - Old CW: Failure to close out games in second half will bite them.   New CW: Blowing it open at Neyland Bryant-Denny-in-the-Smokies showed them to be a strong second-half team.   The fourth quarter may yet be [...]

[Read more →]

Commander
Post #2472
Nashville, TN

MyFanPage
Find Buddy

Some perspective from a curmudgeonly antagonist
Edit | Reply

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 [...]

[Read more →]

One of the themes emerging as I write about Vanderbilt sports is the tension between my analytical side and its emotional counterpart, between the roles of an analyst and a fan.
The analyst within has asked me to pass along a message to the effect that Duke really isn’t that horrible a football team, that Cutcliffe [...]

[Read more →]

Rushed at the last moment again….

Alabama - Still the league’s top team, but letting teams back into games in the second half will bite them if they keep doing it.
Florida - Off week to magnify the impact of that LSU blowout in our memory.
Georgia - Not quite as impressive as Florida lately, but equally effective.    [...]

[Read more →]

I don’t have too much to add about that Georgia game, but I do think it’s interesting that Vanderbilt fan reaction I’ve seen seems to divide pretty evenly into two camps.   One camp seems to be absolutely despondent and believe the season is falling apart.   The other camp, in which I squarely find myself, insist [...]

[Read more →]

When you oversleep your game’s kickoff and miss most of the first quarter, I guess that’s a sign you’re staying out too late at the casinos.
I did wake up in time to see the Georgia TD.
I’m going to experiment with running commentary in the comments, rather than liveblogging per se.
Box score - Live video available [...]

[Read more →]

This week our guest is Doug Gillett of award-winning Georgia blog (and occasionally politics blog) Hey Jenny Slater. HJS once again rocked the SEC blogosphere by inviting noted college football commentators teh LOLcats to guest-write this preseason preview of the UGa-VU game. Their more recent human-written preview of this week’s [...]

[Read more →]

Here’s the consensus of SEC bloggers this week:

VU-specific stuff after the jump: 

[Read more →]

This week’s sucks because I haven’t written my comments yet.   Too depressed after my trip to eastern Mississippi, I guess.   Maybe comments will pop up later tonight.

Alabama
Florida
Georgia
LSU
Vanderbilt - Big drop-off from #4.   Maybe that non-offense isn’t enough to win SEC games after all.   Let’s try a QB change….
South Carolina - Public opinion rightly recognizes how [...]

[Read more →]

So I’m finially getting around to the SEC Power Poll Roundtable.  Ur-questions and prototypical answers courtesy Hey Jenny Slater.
1. What’s your prediction for the matchup in the SEC championship game, and has that changed at all from what you were predicting in the preseason?
I’m advantaged a bit by waiting to submit my answer, so I’m [...]

[Read more →]