Vandy Discussion [split from portal thread]

#76
#76
UTFranklinVol said:
I'm not talking about basketball chief.

Vanderbilt has been competitive with Tennessee in basketball and baseball for decades.

they are now catching up in football.
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You need to look up facts. Vandy basketball has not been competitive with UT in basketball. Look up the records. Football they are not catching up just because they won one year.
 
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#77
#77
UTFranklinVol said:
I'm not talking about basketball chief.

Vanderbilt has been competitive with Tennessee in basketball and baseball for decades.

they are now catching up in football.
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My god, do I literally have to connect the dots for you? Please keep up.

After the basketball team saw lots of players enter the portal, I have no doubt you wet your pants and wondered what was wrong. Behind the scenes, Rick had a plan and is throwing money and influence around that shows Tennessee is one of the big boys.

Do you think that energy (both from our athletic department and the boosters who help fund our programs) applies only to basketball? Or does, say, paying $1.2 million for a football strength coach perhaps show that we can and will spend the money necessary to win?

I’m just tired of the unwarranted teeth gnashing. If people like you ran the AD we’d be f*cked.
 
#81
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UTFranklinVol said:
I'm not talking about basketball chief.

Vanderbilt has been competitive with Tennessee in basketball and baseball for decades.

they are now catching up in football.
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Vanderbilt has not been competitive with the Barnes-era Vols, with Stackhouse never seeing the tourny in his 5ish seasons there and I think they only went once under Drew, just as Vols baseball wasn't competitive with Corbin-era Vandy baseball until Tony got things going in the right direction around 2019/2020, which by that point Vandy had already won a couple of natties and was one of the top teams in the country, much less the SEC.

Think you might be in a bit of a fog or something.
 
#83
#83
ThatVolGuy said:
Everyone knows the playing field is different, but all you’re doing is speculative doomcasting. Our basketball coach is out there in the portal making North Carolina and Kentucky fans ask how much money Tennessee could possibly have, but you and the other Chicken Littles are shouting “uncle” because Vanderbilt won some games.

Have a little pride.
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More than pride, he and the other Chicken Littles need to find some damn shame
 
#84
#84
OrangeVolMan said:
You need to look up facts. Vandy basketball has not been competitive with UT in basketball. Look up the records. Football they are not catching up just because they won one year.
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lol. Vandy is 2-2 against Tennessee in the last 4 meetings and 4-4 in the last 8 meetings.

and if you go back to older history 2000-2015 Vandy was very competitive.

the only exception was the stretch from 2017 to 2022 when Tennessee won 11 in a row.
 
#86
#86
ThatVolGuy said:
After the basketball team saw lots of players enter the portal, I have no doubt you wet your pants and wondered what was wrong.

I’m just tired of the unwarranted teeth gnashing. If people like you ran the AD we’d be f*cked.
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Wondered what was wrong? I was the one screaming from the mountain to let them all walk! I'm the one who said they need to replace the whole team, including Ament.

also "if people like you ran the AD we'd be f*cked" meanwhile our baseball team is tanking, our women's basketball coach literally ran off ALL her players and our football team had a massive collapse to the point that they fired their DC and don't look like they will do much better in 2026.

But you go ahead and tell me I would have done it worse than that 😂
 
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Even as a past critic of Barnes there’s no dispute whatsoever we’re in far better shape in hoops than football or baseball right now. In fact, it kind of ironic the old school coach is the guy that’s evidently figured out the NIL world better than the younger guys, especially Heupel.
 
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UTFranklinVol said:
lol. Vandy is 2-2 against Tennessee in the last 4 meetings and 4-4 in the last 8 meetings.

and if you go back to older history 2000-2015 Vandy was very competitive.

the only exception was the stretch from 2017 to 2022 when Tennessee won 11 in a row.
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I mean if you're only considering head-to-head ok... but in the last 9 years:

Tennessee: 225-86 (109-52 SEC), 8 tournaments (and covid year), 5 sweet 16s, 3 elite 8s, 1 SEC championship
Vanderbilt: 138-157 (53-107 SEC), 2 tournaments, 1 total tournament win, 0 conference championships
 
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Titans4Vols said:
Vanderbilt has not been competitive with the Barnes-era Vols, with Stackhouse never seeing the tourny in his 5ish seasons there and I think they only went once under Drew, just as Vols baseball wasn't competitive with Corbin-era Vandy baseball until Tony got things going in the right direction around 2019/2020, which by that point Vandy had already won a couple of natties and was one of the top teams in the country, much less the SEC.

Think you might be in a bit of a fog or something.
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Vandy has played us 50/50 the last 8 meetings and why are we only counting the Rick Barnes era?
 
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UTFranklinVol said:
Vandy has played us 50/50 the last 8 meetings and why are we only counting the Rick Barnes era?
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Because saying "competitive for decades" implies some level of consistency across decades, which is just objectively wrong. In reality what you're doing would be like saying Tennessee has been competitive with Alabama in football for the last couple decades just because we've won 2 of the last 4 meetings.

It reads as borderline trolling, as if you have no idea of what the actual history of the basketball or baseball programs for each school have been like, and you're just posting nonsense for a reaction.
 
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UTFranklinVol said:
"passed" is a strong word, but for a fact "on par" is correct. they will no longer be our whipping boy that we can count on beating every year.

Kentucky is still sh!t we will continue to soundly whoop them, but Vandy has tons more money they can invest in football than Kentucky does. If you think Vandy was a breath away from making the CFP and they are just going to walk away and say "good enough" you're willingly ignorant and your hubris is showing.
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Plenty of schools have had a Heisman candidate QB and risen to relevance and then immediately crashed down once they graduate. If you think Pavia is trash at football then I can agree with you that Vandy has arrived, but basically everyone else would disagree with that assessment.
 
#95
#95
ThatVolGuy said:
You realize athletes still have to be admitted to the schools they're transferring to, right? Are you under the delusion that someone can skate into Vanderbilt with a dogsh*t track record?
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Yes, Vandy doesn’t require their athletes to meet the same academic standards as the rest of their students. Same with most all private D1 colleges including the ivy leagues and military academies.
 
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walkenvol said:
Yes, Vandy doesn’t require their athletes to meet the same academic standards as the rest of their students. Same with most all private D1 colleges including the ivy leagues and military academies.
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That's not exactly true. The Ivy schools get a small number of exemptions in recruiting. The bulk have to meet the standards of admissions.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
I vote for the few Vandy meat riders find somewhere else to spew their nonsense and get this thread back on its original topic.
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GSPVol said:
That's not exactly true. The Ivy schools get a small number of exemptions in recruiting. The bulk have to meet the standards of admissions.
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They used to get 5-6 exemptions for freshman each season in basketball so in essence their entire roster could have been exempted. Don’t know the football numbers as they’re not trying to play in the big leagues.
 
#100
#100
UTFranklinVol said:
we will see who's dense when we examine which team has a better record in 2026.

Vandy had the #80 recruiting class in 2025 and they boat raced us on our home field.

"Oh, that's just a fluke" no, you have to be pretty dense to think that getting destroyed on your home field is a fluke 🙄
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If they only got players from high school recruiting. You have to be a Vandy fan.
 
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