... Their academic requirements are too much of a disadvantage in SEC. I give the AD credit for not judging against the reality.
Their "academic requirements" weren't a problem in the past. It used to be that virtually all of the football players were enrolled in Peabody College, which was across 21st Avenue, but whose students were also eligible to play for Vandy. I think Peabody is fully merged with Vandy now, but I have no idea what part "academic requirements" plays today in their difficulty succeeding. I suspect that a major part is that they are much smaller, and have less resources available, than most of the schools in the SEC.
“In the past”?....please tell me when Vandy was relevant in any major sport? Yes in Baseball the past 15 years, however, Peabody has been a part of Vanderbilt since 1979, with the same admission standards as everyone else into the undergraduate world. But you infer that Vandy was just fine before they changed standards. So I’ll wait on you to discover the powerhouse Vandy Football teams of a day gone by before Peabody was officially part of Vandy.
Vandy has been to 9 Bowl games in history, 30% of them in the past 6 years under D-Mace. So please let every Vandy fan know when that “Hey Day” was
I didn't infer that at all. In fact, I inferred the opposite. In fact, I said that their problem is that they are much smaller, and have less resources. What I did say was that at one time Peabody had lower academic standards than Vandy, so they had the football players enroll there. I'm sure they have ways today of getting players in. It still doesn't make them equal to the SEC.
Peabody has a beautiful campus, by the way. It's actually much more attractive than the Vandy side of the street, which has very eclectic architecture.
Last Edited: 11/19/2019 9:41:37 PM by L.C.