Sept. 16, 2010
Quick Slant is an array of brief insights and occasionally opinionated overviews of collegiate athletics in general and the Vanderbilt Commodores in particular.
- It seems just yesterday we were facing Florida State in the NCAA Super Regional but we’re already in a new school year and Texas is on our horizon. It is permissible to play some fall games so Vanderbilt and the Longhorns are going to play twice in mid-October in Austin. The first game will be Friday, Oct. 15 and the other is Sunday, October 17. The games do not count on won-loss records or on future strength of schedule calculations but they do count against the limit of 56 games collegiate teams are allowed to play in a school year. So, two of the nation’s top programs will go head-to-head just for the fun of it.
The other day my next door neighbor said he heard a rumor that Vanderbilt had already formed a secret search committee and asked if it was true. “Of course not,” was my reply, “and not only is that false, if it were true it would be a secret!” Be careful with gossip, especially sports gossip.
- Speaking of rumors, if you have heard or read that NCAA investigators are on every SEC campus, it might seem that way but we can assure you that is not the case. Seriously, Commissioner Mike Slive has made following the letter and spirit of the NCAA Rule Book a primary objective since he came into office and the overwhelming majority of SEC coaches and administrators are doing just that. They just don’t get media attention for doing so.
