Coach From That School in Nashville

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GahLee said:
Combination of mediocrity and an overpriced and overrated education?
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90 Vol said:
A swing...and a miss! Thanks for playing though.
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It's the best school academically in the SEC by a rather large margin and, additionally, has shown dedication to improve its athletic department over the past five or so years.

So, yea, no one in the SEC can offer the combination that Vanderbilt does.
 
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I would argue that an athlete would be "settling" if they decided to play in front of those terrible vandy home crowds. I would want to play in front of a packed stadium full of fans who care instead.
 
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notabed22 said:
It's the best school academically in the SEC by a rather large margin and, additionally, has shown dedication to improve its athletic department over the past five or so years.

So, yea, no one in the SEC can offer the combination that Vanderbilt does.
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The last five years? Cute.
 
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AF_VOL said:
I would argue that an athlete would be "settling" if they decided to play in front of those terrible vandy home crowds. I would want to play in front of a packed stadium full of fans who care instead.
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You just described Bama & LSU.
 
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notabed22 said:
It's the best school academically in the SEC by a rather large margin and, additionally, has shown dedication to improve its athletic department over the past five or so years.

So, yea, no one in the SEC can offer the combination that Vanderbilt does.
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That's sweet Nancy. Now run along and go study for your conflict resolution class.
 
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notabed22 said:
It's the best school academically in the SEC by a rather large margin and, additionally, has shown dedication to improve its athletic department over the past five or so years.

So, yea, no one in the SEC can offer the combination that Vanderbilt does.
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I will give the academics but Vandy is not and will never be a force in the SEC. Ive seen this show before. jf reminds me of Gerard DiNardo. He came in running his mouth got a buzz around the program but it was still the same ole vandy. Bobby Johnson was a classy guy, got a little buzz going but still same ole vandy. jf should have left when he had the chance but he decided to anchor down. Someone should have told him when you anchor down you are sitting still, not moving forward. Same ole vandy.
 
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Members of 104.5 radio team has been on JF's jock for the past 2 years. That was awesome. Kuharsky and Withrow went after him and didn't back down. That was great. Franklin is a jerkdore.
 
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alexconner said:
Members of 104.5 radio team has been on JF's jock for the past 2 years. That was awesome. Kuharsky and Withrow went after him and didn't back down. That was great. Franklin is a jerkdore.
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They didn't actually go after him. They asked him about his tweet and he was very clearly agitated from the get-go. Clearly touched a nerve. Called Withrow a "beauty", told PK to "relax" when he simply asked him a question, and then implied that they were unprofessional for asking him the question in the first place.
 
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fade route said:
Again, this is a football forum, and nobody cares about how well a school does academically in the world of college football. I repeat, nobody.
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GahLee said:
Congratulations Vandy, you've improved upon dreadful. You're now pathetic in the world of athletics.

Moving up.
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Not a Vanderbilt fan, just someone who recognizes that Vanderbilt is, and I'll stress this again so that you may be able to better retain the point, academically the best school in the SEC.

(Which, for those following at home, makes my statement correct.)

Vanderbilt is doing a fine job progressing their athletics department. They're obviously no Florida, but it's making considerable strides.
 
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Hopvol said:
I dont even like to say the pricks name. He was on 104.5 the zone and was asked about the his tweet the night before Hurd announced. It got a bit heated around the 6:20 mark.

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LOL What a douche.

First response to the question posed: "Hahaha, you're a beauty."

Second response: "Hahaha, you're really interesting."
 
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notabed22 said:
Not a Vanderbilt fan, just someone who recognizes that Vanderbilt is, and I'll stress this again so that you may be able to better retain the point, academically the best school in the SEC.

(Which, for those following at home, makes my statement correct.)

Vanderbilt is doing a fine job progressing their athletics department. They're obviously no Florida, but it's making considerable strides.
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And they've improved upon dreadful, that's not really an accomplishment. Rather an indictment of how awful they've been for about a century.
 
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99gator said:
if only volnation existed while spurrier was at florida.

based on what i've seen with franklin, spurrier would have had his own forum.
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I disagree profoundly. Whatever Tennessee fans thought of Spurrier, Florida was a respected rival. (Despised perhaps, but respected nonetheless.) Vanderbilt is an instate "rival" for whom familiarity breeds contempt. In that respect, they are no different than FSU presumably is for you guys, except for the important distinction that VU has been, for the last 75 years, an historical afterthought which only occasionally rose from the depths of SEC cellar dwellers to relevance. Franklin is a highly abrasive personality who receives a lot of airtime from local media and those of us in the Nashville area have quickly grown quite tired of him. It is time for Butch and his program/team to start doing their part to put the Commodes and Franklin back in their accustomed position at the back of the SEC bus.
 
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GahLee said:
And they've improved upon dreadful, that's not really an accomplishment. Rather an indictment of how awful they've been for about a century.
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His quote was in the context of a combination of both athletics and academics. Franklin, though, didn't specify the SEC, which is a pretty important detail to leave out.

Vanderbilt is improving upon "dreadful athletics" at a faster pace than Tennessee is improving upon dreadful academics.

Which, one more time, is relevant because the quote discusses providing both athletics and academics.
 
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I listened, and I don't even think they "went after him". All they did was try to get an answer for their questions.

You can't say something on a stage like Twitter and then not expect to get picked apart in a rational conversation if what you said is irrational. I think Kuharsky was spot on with his Princeton comment.

That was a completely fair question, and all Franklin had to do was say if you put it in the context of recruiting the best talent out there, the Ivy Leagues aren't in the same category as the power conferences. He didn't even have to just elude to the SEC. Instead he just gets on the defensive and tries to elude to their show not being professional for acting like journalists and not allowing their airwaves to be his bullhorn.

Complete joke.

notabed22 said:
His quote was in the context of a combination of both athletics and academics. Franklin, though, didn't specify the SEC, which is a pretty important detail to leave out.

Vanderbilt is improving upon "dreadful athletics" at a faster pace than Tennessee is improving upon dreadful academics.

Which, one more time, is relevant because the quote discusses providing both athletics and academics.
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He can't reference the SEC because he knows he will get laughed out of any building with Vandy's track record in football. The bottom line is he is a good coach (he really is) who improved Vanderbilt from the complete trainwreck it was when he got there, due to their good coaching. Is it drastically improving? You have to beat teams who matter before you can say that.
 
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notabed22 said:
His quote was in the context of a combination of both athletics and academics. Franklin, though, didn't specify the SEC, which is a pretty important detail to leave out.

Vanderbilt is improving upon "dreadful athletics" at a faster pace than Tennessee is improving upon dreadful academics.

Which, one more time, is relevant because the quote discusses providing both athletics and academics.
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Dreadful academics? Really?
 
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notabed22 said:
His quote was in the context of a combination of both athletics and academics. Franklin, though, didn't specify the SEC, which is a pretty important detail to leave out.

Vanderbilt is improving upon "dreadful athletics" at a faster pace than Tennessee is improving upon dreadful academics.

Which, one more time, is relevant because the quote discusses providing both athletics and academics.
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As has already been pointed out this a football forum not an academics forum. Yes, vandy would probably beat UT in a spelling bee. Happy?
 
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notabed22 said:
His quote was in the context of a combination of both athletics and academics. Franklin, though, didn't specify the SEC, which is a pretty important detail to leave out.

Vanderbilt is improving upon "dreadful athletics" at a faster pace than Tennessee is improving upon dreadful academics.

Which, one more time, is relevant because the quote discusses providing both athletics and academics.
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If you want to talk about "dreadful academic performance by UT athletes," you at least have a defensible argument, although I would challenge you to produce empirical data supporting that conclusion and, more importantly, data illustrative of their performance vis-a-vis their peers at sister institutions in the SEC. As for the university as a whole, you are grossly overstating your case. UT is a mid-tier state university, nothing more and nothing less, but that certainly doesn't qualify as "dreadful academics." Indeed, admissions standards at UT have increased significantly in recent years, which has become a bone of major contention between the athletic department and university administration.
 
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notabed22 said:
It's the best school academically in the SEC by a rather large margin and, additionally, has shown dedication to improve its athletic department over the past five or so years.

So, yea, no one in the SEC can offer the combination that Vanderbilt does.
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Not really. Vandy's FB player's graduation rate is not that much better than the rest of the SEC. Don't get into the #s of it, you'll be disappointed.

This is actually not as strong of an argument to stand behind as you'd think. Pull up the #s and then get back to me and THEN let me know what you find...
 
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