tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post1511783413225141036..comments2024-03-26T09:25:02.198-04:00Comments on Hey Jenny Slater.: I know what you did last October: Revisiting Vanderbilt.Astronaut Mike Dexterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498197770701096363noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-24475106985378204932007-10-13T17:54:00.000-04:002007-10-13T17:54:00.000-04:00Perhaps the reason the team is loose is because th...Perhaps the reason the team is loose is because they don't look at teams like Vandy, Ole Miss, Miss St, and Kentucky like teams we should be able to pound like Mike Tyson on Glass Joe with just the junior varsity cheerleaders on the field.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps, just perhaps, our coaches have taught this team to look at every team the same, approach every game with the same intensity. After all, you don't change your routine for each opponent, you change what it contains. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps, just perhaps, that game in Tennessee was an aberration and we'll come out, play our game and put up a win. I certainly do agree with you that our coaches need to perform well, but I disagree with you that the players should be 'begging to hit anyone.'<BR/><BR/>Coach Richt gets paid for a reason. So does his staff. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and trust that he'll do the best thing for our players and our program.Mickey McCalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07689765542122448393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-80574858946285865882007-10-12T18:22:00.000-04:002007-10-12T18:22:00.000-04:00Not on topic, except that technically I think he i...Not on topic, except that technically I think he is still faculty at Vandy, but, Al Gore. Fuck yeah!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-34738938309021629052007-10-12T16:33:00.000-04:002007-10-12T16:33:00.000-04:00I'm not a fan of the "they're just kids" excuse. ...I'm not a fan of the "they're just kids" excuse. Are they grown-ass men yet? Well for most of them no. But that's a piss-poor excuse and one that would fly in no other situation.<BR/>Player cheats on his gf, gets caught, the gf doesn't say "well, he's only a freshman, he's just a kid."<BR/>Player gets busted for underage possession of alcohol--think the judge will buy the "he's just a kid" excuse?<BR/>This is a group largely between the ages of 19-22. Not a JV HS team.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075308307848122779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-17727338154317397182007-10-12T15:51:00.000-04:002007-10-12T15:51:00.000-04:00"...before laying a steaming turd on the field at ...<I>"...before laying a steaming turd on the field at Tennessee..."</I><BR/><BR/>A fine point, I know, but imo it was really more like a colitis-induced diarrhea spew.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250715.post-18996985806466335382007-10-12T14:34:00.000-04:002007-10-12T14:34:00.000-04:00don't forget-they're just kids. i remember back in...don't forget-<BR/><BR/>they're just kids. i remember back in high school baseball, my team had this sleepwalking loss to a horrible team...we were mad at ourselves and at the season and probably all actually WANTED to run laps and windsprints to appease the coaches and our own bruised egos.<BR/><BR/>well, that didn't happen. our coach actually gave us the next day off. most of us ended up hanging out by the weight room, talking among ourselves about where we wanted to take the season. it was mentally refreshing...we all got on the same page voluntarily, decided to man up, stop taking teams for granted, and go out and win a conference title. which we did a month or so later.<BR/><BR/>oh, and obviously the coaches were doing some serious soul-searching away from the team on our day off.<BR/><BR/>this was my junior year...which isn't completely far removed from how old those dawgs are out there missing tackles. they're just kids. some sort of nebulous LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS DANGIT/GO OUT THERE AND HIT SOMETHING sounds reasonable enough, as if we're adjusting skill levels on a video game, but it doesn't really work that way.<BR/><BR/>we got shell-shocked at UT. awful job by the players, horrible prep job by the coaches. true. but maybe the remedy to all that is to turn the brains off for a while, relax, talk, and start anew.<BR/><BR/>we'll see if it works.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com