The meltdown that is happening on the Vandy message boards

#3,826
#3,826
FLVOL_79 said:
If I had his supposed grades I'd be up at Yale or Princeton. Want to be a doctor? Go to Johns Hopkins. Ever hear about their boys taking a beating? Nope. They can play football AND get a legitimately good education free sans the drain bamage.
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I had to fact-check this via google, and you are correct they were 11-1 last year. But this got me thinking.....

Obviously there are many levels of football below the SEC, but a team as low of a level of football as Johns Hopkins likely wouldn't get a first down against your average SEC team.

Johns Hopkins beat a team called Randolph-Macon 42-3. To me that poses 2 questions: Just how low are the lowest levels of college football? And how bad would Randolph-Macon beat Vandy?
 
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chatt-townVOL said:
I had to fact-check this via google, and you are correct they were 11-1 last year. But this got me thinking.....

Obviously there are many levels of football below the SEC, but a team as low of a level of football as Johns Hopkins likely wouldn't get a first down against your average SEC team.

Johns Hopkins beat a team called Randolph-Macon 42-3. To me that poses 2 questions: Just how low are the lowest levels of college football? And how bad would Randolph-Macon beat Vandy?
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That last part was ****ing hilarious
 
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chatt-townVOL said:
I had to fact-check this via google, and you are correct they were 11-1 last year. But this got me thinking.....

Obviously there are many levels of football below the SEC, but a team as low of a level of football as Johns Hopkins likely wouldn't get a first down against your average SEC team.

Johns Hopkins beat a team called Randolph-Macon 42-3. To me that poses 2 questions: Just how low are the lowest levels of college football? And how bad would Randolph-Macon beat Vandy?
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To be fair when I said "taking a beating" I was refering to being braindead after football..not actually winning. I had no idea that Johns Hopkins 1)had a football team and 2)had a good football team. :good!:
 
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#3,829
Does anyone know where I can watch the UT-Vandy game from last season (2014)? I can't watch on ESPN, noonkick doesn't have it, and youtube doesn't either.

I know it wasn't the 2014 team's best performance, but watching the way the two programs are trending, I think it was a small taste of better things to come :)
 
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#3,830
So, a writer on Vandy's sbnation blog has come up with an innovative solution to their attendance problem:

"Attendance has sadly dropped significantly since the departure of James Franklin just two seasons ago. For every student-athlete who would be coming from the state of Tennessee, that would be an additional 2-10 fans in the seats per student-athlete."

That's a direct quote. I'm not kidding.

I guess there's some sense in this. If Vandy can recruit its entire roster from Tennessee, then they'll be able to put 500-600 fans in the stands. Throw in Vanderbilt's unique arithmetic (we've seen it before), and they can claim an attendance of 4,000 per game! That would be an improvement for them, right?
 
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HatesVandy said:
So, a writer on Vandy's sbnation blog has come up with an innovative solution to their attendance problem:

"Attendance has sadly dropped significantly since the departure of James Franklin just two seasons ago. For every student-athlete who would be coming from the state of Tennessee, that would be an additional 2-10 fans in the seats per student-athlete."

That's a direct quote. I'm not kidding.

I guess there's some sense in this. If Vandy can recruit its entire roster from Tennessee, then they'll be able to put 500-600 fans in the stands. Throw in Vanderbilt's unique arithmetic (we've seen it before), and they can claim an attendance of 4,000 per game! That would be an improvement for them, right?
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Someone needs to tell them that the concession workers don't count in that total.
 
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HatesVandy said:
So, a writer on Vandy's sbnation blog has come up with an innovative solution to their attendance problem:

"Attendance has sadly dropped significantly since the departure of James Franklin just two seasons ago. For every student-athlete who would be coming from the state of Tennessee, that would be an additional 2-10 fans in the seats per student-athlete."

That's a direct quote. I'm not kidding.

I guess there's some sense in this. If Vandy can recruit its entire roster from Tennessee, then they'll be able to put 500-600 fans in the stands. Throw in Vanderbilt's unique arithmetic (we've seen it before), and they can claim an attendance of 4,000 per game! That would be an improvement for them, right?
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That's actually a great recruiting strategy for Mason. Only recruit kids from Nashville-area high schools with large families that will attend every home game.

It's not like they are going to be competitive in the SEC again, so they might as well put a few more warm bodies in the bleachers.
 
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Aesius said:
That's actually a great recruiting strategy for Mason. Only recruit kids from Nashville-area high schools with large families that will attend every home game.

It's not like they are going to be competitive in the SEC again, so they might as well put a few more warm bodies in the bleachers.
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I'm sure Vandy athletes families even get embarrassed about the program. I wouldn't count on that to fill a few more seats.
 
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Aesius said:
It's not like they are going to be competitive in the SEC again, so they might as well put a few more warm bodies in the bleachers.
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Maybe if they lowered the price of tickets it would help draw more people in.

Oh wait...
 
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checkerboards09 said:
Giving Vandy tickets away for free has to be one of the hardest jobs out there.
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That's what cracked me up last season with Vandy fan(s). Before the UT game, there was a thread over on TOS about "Don't sell your tickets to the Vile Fans!"

As if they wouldn't be available at the gate...
 
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WKU will have alot of fans at the opener on West End since they are just right down the road. They wont even have a halfway decent crowd at their opener lol
 
#3,841
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Aesius said:
That's gotta hurt their offense. Imagine if Dobbs took all the #1 reps in spring camp and then just quit football to concentrate on school.

Robinette isn't great, but he was by far their best option and they essentially wasted spring camp on him.
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Didn't even know they had an offense. Love finding quirky facts on the interwebs.
 
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A poster on Vandymania wants the Western Kentucky game moved to a Thursday night, reasoning that if the game is on a weeknight, it will discourage WKU fans from driving down and filling up Vandy's stadium.
 
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Bms4880 said:
A poster on Vandymania wants the Western Kentucky game moved to a Thursday night, reasoning that if the game is on a weeknight, it will discourage WKU fans from driving down and filling up Vandy's stadium.
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lol, they are admitting defeat.
 
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