Sep 6, 2013
Quick Slant is an array of brief insights and occasionally opinionated overviews of collegiate athletics in general and the Vanderbilt Commodores in particular.
Hall of Fame Weekend got off to a roaring start when 2013 inductee Jamie Duncan arrived early and not only watched the football team practice, Coach Franklin asked him to speak to the team about his Vanderbilt and NFL experiences. Duncan, the 1997 SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Year, and six others will be inducted at a dinner Friday night.
This group of enlightened readers knows better but can I take a second and remind others not to believe everything they see and read on the Internet? Thank you. Anyone can write a bogus blog claiming expertise on a given subject or post a tasteless video professing to represent an organization. That is the Achilles Heel of the Internet – no editor behind the content holding the author accountable such as with traditional media. However, I am always astounded when seemingly smart people over react to such tasteless garbage because it fits into stereotypes they hold.
OK, OK, I get it. Our five favorite states are apparently not the hub of Commodore Nation. But does anyone know people who live in New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Alaska and Idaho? How about making a token contribution to the NCC in their name so we can have members in all 50 states? It could start to snowball from there and it might get YOUR name in Quick Slant to be read by my mom and Slant’s four other readers!