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re: What prevents Vanderbilt from competing in Football using Stanford's model?
Posted on 12/10/15 at 7:14 am to Grovewater
Posted on 12/10/15 at 7:14 am to Grovewater
Because Stanford is better in literally everything.
Stanford is a top 5 university in the world that can recruit anywhere in the nation. Vandy is a more regional university with clout in the southeast but not much elsewhere.
Stanford has much better facilities and winning tradition. Vandy is still trying to prove that winning there is possible while Stanford has been and currently is doing it.
Ever visited Stanford's campus? It is truly something to see, located in some of the nicest real estate in the world. Nashville is cool to you and I, but it also has a stigma of being a country music place where a lot of recruits would not feel comfortable.
Bottom line, Stanford and Vandy are not even comparable.
Stanford is a top 5 university in the world that can recruit anywhere in the nation. Vandy is a more regional university with clout in the southeast but not much elsewhere.
Stanford has much better facilities and winning tradition. Vandy is still trying to prove that winning there is possible while Stanford has been and currently is doing it.
Ever visited Stanford's campus? It is truly something to see, located in some of the nicest real estate in the world. Nashville is cool to you and I, but it also has a stigma of being a country music place where a lot of recruits would not feel comfortable.
Bottom line, Stanford and Vandy are not even comparable.
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Posted on 12/10/15 at 9:03 am to Monticello
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Vandy is a more regional university with clout in the southeast but not much elsewhere.
I agree with everything you said but this. Vandy has an absurd number of northeasterners and foreigners. Its half kids that didn't get into Ivy league. It doesn't feel "Southern" at all.
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Although I do agree that Stanford is more appealing in just about every way.
Vandy is a damn good school and has clout all over the world though.
This post was edited on 12/10/15 at 9:06 am
Posted on 12/10/15 at 9:04 am to Monticello
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Vandy is a more regional university with clout in the southeast but not much elsewhere.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Vandy has a ton of students from New York and California. The Midwest has a bunch of students that go there as well. It's a very diverse university state-wise from all of the people I've met who go there.
Posted on 12/10/15 at 9:30 am to Monticello
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Vandy is a more regional university with clout in the southeast but not much elsewhere.
I don't think that's true.
Top 10 enrollment by State.
TN - 665
Illinois - 555
New York - 468
Texas - 430
Florida - 429
California - 418
Georgia - 385
New Jersey - 320
Ohio - 234
Massachusetts - 203
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This post was edited on 12/10/15 at 9:32 am
Posted on 12/10/15 at 4:05 pm to Monticello
it helps that they are in the pac12.. in the SEC, they'd be Arkansas.
Posted on 12/10/15 at 6:21 pm to Monticello
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Bottom line, Stanford and Vandy are not even comparable.
Pretty much but I don't think recruits give a damn about Nashville producing country music. There's no stigma to that and I say that as someone who believes Nashville is a place where music goes to die or be whored out to the masses who think mentioning a truck, skoal, or tractor = 'country.'
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