A Vandy Fan Opines On Tennessee Game This Year

[KBVol]

James Franklin squirmed out of two games to get this OOC schedule, coupled with the easiest SEC schedule for the year.



Also considering the fact that he dropped NW after they absolutely brutalized them last year, it's very apparent Franklin is doing this because he needs a patty-cake schedule to keep fooling the world into thinking he is something he is not, and Vandy is something they are not.

Again: JF has beaten no team with above a 54% winning percentage-- ever. He bought out two games in 2013 to get more beatable teams as notches on his paper gun belt.

Exactly! Total winning percentage of all teams he beat last year was 34%. Better than the absolute pathetic, dismal, pitiful performance if their ridiculous past, but hardly anything to get excited about.

 

[gnm53108]

LMAO. The Bama fan base will never live that tree killing down. It's ashamed too, because the Bama fans that I know are good people who would give you the shirts off their backs. Of course, that's just the ones I know. The good Bama fans are few and far between and the rest of the fan base are whack jobs who would punch their own grandmothers in the face. Anyway, that tree killing did more than just kill trees. It killed the Alabama/Auburn rivalry. I'm concerned that one day, some rabid fan is going to take things a step further and actually hurt a player or coach.

No it didnt.

 

[Orange_Crush]

Exactly! Total winning percentage of all teams he beat last year was 34%. Better than the absolute pathetic, dismal, pitiful performance if their ridiculous past, but hardly anything to get excited about.

And to make sure everyone gets it:

CJF dropped two games in the 2013 season, from what was already probably the overall easiest schedule in the SEC. Two-- one of which had drilled them the year before.

My expectation is that after this year, he will try to buy out the UF and UT games. When he finds out he can't do that, he'll motion that they change conferences and then work the media to proclaim him the next Nick Saban because of his dominance of the Sunbelt.

 

[Jezebel Rollo]

No it didnt.

It kind of did. That rivalry has not been the same since the infamous tree slaying. Maybe it will get back to what it once was, but for now, it has lost a lot of it's luster due to what happened with the trees.

 

[gnm53108]

It kind of did. That rivalry has not been the same since the infamous tree slaying. Maybe it will get back to what it once was, but for now, it has lost a lot of it's luster due to what happened with the trees.

I dont know any bammers personely but I do know a couple of barners. They havent changed their opinion of bama...at all. In fact I think they might hate em as much as I do.

 

[Jezebel Rollo]

I dont know any bammers personely but I do know a couple of barners. They havent changed their opinion of bama...at all. In fact I think they might hate em as much as I do.

Alabama/Auburn = Iraq/Iran. There are some scary people in those two fan bases.

 

[KBVol]

I'm not a big fan of UT buying out NC. With that said, I'm not so sure that the 'hypocritical' card can be played between Vandy's buyouts, and UT's buyout-- especially considering the strengths of schedule for the years in question.

Here's the schedule that UT was left with after the (single) buyout-- one of the toughest in football, which included Cinci, UF, UGA, SC, BAMA, LSU, and a really good Arkansas.

Date Opponent Time/Result 09/03/2011 Montana 42-16 (W) 09/10/2011 Cincinnati 45-23 (W) 09/17/2011 at Florida 33-23 (L) 09/24/2011 Open --- 10/01/2011 Buffalo 41-10 (W) 10/08/2011 Georgia 20-12 (L) 10/15/2011 LSU 38-7 (L) 10/22/2011 at Alabama 37-6 (L) 10/29/2011 South Carolina 14-3 (L) 11/05/2011 Middle Tennessee 24-0 (W) 11/12/2011 at Arkansas 49-7 (L) 11/19/2011 Vanderbilt 27-21 (W) 11/26/2011 at Kentucky 10-7 (L)


Here's the schedule that Vandy is left with after buying out TWO games (Northwestern and OSU):

Hint, no Bama, no LSU... It would be interesting to consider the strength of schedules for the two schedules AFTER the dropped games-- and then consider that UT dropped one and left a pretty strong OOC team, along with brutal conf schedule. Then consider that JF dropped TWO games and kept a woeful OOC.


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09/14/13 at South Carolina Gamecocks
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09/21/13 at UMass Minutemen
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Very well, and thoroughly, done Crush! Also, regarding this years strength of schedule, UT #21, the Pansies #82.... based on last years records of the teams they play this year.

 

[Orange_Crush]

Very well, and thoroughly, done Crush! Also, regarding this years strength of schedule, UT #21, the Pansies #82.... based on last years records of the teams they play this year.

So, Vandy buys out two games to get the #82 SOS in football.

No. I don't think it really compares to UT buying out the NC game. Thanks KB.

Myth busted.

 

[TOP]

I'll go ahead pick every SEC team except Kentucky to beat Vanderbilt and I'll give Vanderbilt a win for every other game even if I don't think Wake and Kentucky are a given.

That puts Vandy at 5-7

I get the feeling they'll take a step back this year. At least Johnny Heisman will paste 500 yards on them.

 

[rexvol]

Looks like Rex boyfriend showed up

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[butchna]

LMAO. The Bama fan base will never live that tree killing down. It's ashamed too, because the Bama fans that I know are good people who would give you the shirts off their backs. Of course, that's just the ones I know. The good Bama fans are few and far between and the rest of the fan base are whack jobs who would punch their own grandmothers in the face. Anyway, that tree killing did more than just kill trees. It killed the Alabama/Auburn rivalry. I'm concerned that one day, some rabid fan is going to take things a step further and actually hurt a player or coach.

There are extremists in every walk of life...I count many Bama fans among my friends and these last few years I've been on the receiving end of a lot of good natured flak...they know their day is coming...that's how it's supposed to be...it's a shame idiots can't handle real life!
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[VolsSportsFan]

We're giving Vandy fans exactly what they want; we're talking about them like they matter.

 

[UGADawg4Life]

I'll answer my own question.

Last year, Vandy 9-4

Beat FCS Presbyterian
Beat 5-7 Missouri
Beat 3-9 Auburn
Beat 1-11 UMass
Beat 2-10 Kentucky
Beat 7-6 Ol Miss
Beat 5-7 UT
Beat 5-7 Wake Forest
Beat 7-6 NC State

2011:

Beat:

Elon
7-5 Conn Huskies
2-10 Ol Miss
3-9 Army
5-7 Kentucky
6-7 Wake Forest

As a HFB Coach, Franklin has won three games against teams with a winning record. Three. So no. No, I don't have to admire what he's done at Vandy.

Edit: As a matter of fact, he has beaten no one above a 53.84% winning percentage, while playing incredibly weak OOC games.

My answer is 3. :unsure:

 

[UGADawg4Life]

Vandy is Vandy no matter how you cut it.

They have sucked for years and will continue to suck into the foreseeable future!!! Tennessee on the other hand will return to the top of the SEC in time whether it is with CBJ or another coach. We will get back whereas Vandy will never even get there.

Vandy's a private school with no AD. It's like saying that you're gonna beat up a choir boy!

 

[UGADawg4Life]

LMAO. The Bama fan base will never live that tree killing down. It's ashamed too, because the Bama fans that I know are good people who would give you the shirts off their backs. Of course, that's just the ones I know. The good Bama fans are few and far between and the rest of the fan base are whack jobs who would punch their own grandmothers in the face. Anyway, that tree killing did more than just kill trees. It killed the Alabama/Auburn rivalry. I'm concerned that one day, some rabid fan is going to take things a step further and actually hurt a player or coach.

As long as they happen to be wearing their 2010 Awbarn NC shirt at the time! :whistling:

 

[Escape Goat]

Thats true.

Maybe I got that backwards...instead of knocking down vandy's stadium and dragging it to PSC they could move PSC to west end.

:thumbsup: I agree

 

[Escape Goat]

UT fans should never talk about another team buying out of a game...EVER! See UNC 2011.

Also, Vandy got thumped by Bama in 2011 and Bama was on their schedule for 2012 before Mizzou and aTm forced the schedules to be re-done. Make no bones about it, Bama would have hammered them but to say "he" (Franklin) is avoiding Bama is just plain dumb considering "he" (Franklin) doesn't make the SEC schedule.

When did I ever say he had a hand In scheduling SEC opponents. I'm talking about OOC teams. And as far as UT buying out NC, I had no hand in that cowardly act. Besides we are talking about vandy, not UT here.

 

[Escape Goat]

Nice!

I'll answer my own question.

Last year, Vandy 9-4

Beat FCS Presbyterian
Beat 5-7 Missouri
Beat 3-9 Auburn
Beat 1-11 UMass
Beat 2-10 Kentucky
Beat 7-6 Ol Miss
Beat 5-7 UT
Beat 5-7 Wake Forest
Beat 7-6 NC State

2011:

Beat:

Elon
7-5 Conn Huskies
2-10 Ol Miss
3-9 Army
5-7 Kentucky
6-7 Wake Forest

As a HFB Coach, Franklin has won three games against teams with a winning record. Three. So no. No, I don't have to admire what he's done at Vandy.

Edit: As a matter of fact, he has beaten no one above a 53.84% winning percentage, while playing incredibly weak OOC games.

 

[Escape Goat]

We're giving Vandy fans exactly what they want; we're talking about them like they matter.

No, we are explaining why they are a pig wearing a bow tie. Or a polished turd if you will.

 

[Jezebel Rollo]

As long as they happen to be wearing their 2010 Awbarn NC shirt at the time! :whistling:

Easy there,sugar britches. I'm talking about the ones that I know. Some of them are family, so, let's not get personal.

 

[Flipdaddy]

and head to head recruiting in state.



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Answer this, and I'm not trying to be a smarta$$. How does it feel knowing that Vandy can onlt beat UT when we suck which hasn't been often? When we are even halfway decent we stomp y'alls A$$es!

 

[Orange_Crush]

and head to head recruiting in state.



Fact or Fiction?[/QUOt

Answer this, and I'm not trying to be a smarta$$. How does it feel knowing that Vandy can onlt beat UT when we suck which hasn't been often? When we are even halfway decent we stomp y'alls A$$es!

Considering their loss to CDD year-before-last, they're not even guaranteed a UT win when we suck. lol

 

[Milehigh_Vol]

This how I feel about all this vandy talk.....

 

[UGADawg4Life]

Easy there,sugar britches. I'm talking about the ones that I know. Some of them are family, so, let's not get personal.

Sorry, I just couldn't let it go!

 

[KBVol]

Vandy's a private school with no AD. It's like saying that you're gonna beat up a choir boy!

No AD? That's news to David Williams, their AD for several years now. I know as of a couple years ago he was the highest paid AD in the country. Think they dropped that stupid pc intramural-like position a few years back after Gordon Gee left for OSU.

Either way Vandy effing blows.