re: Has Vandy ever been a top SEC team

They just won a CWS so they seem to be doing ok in baseball now, but no not historically. I don't see that changing because of this

In September 2003, Vanderbilt disbanded its athletic department. Intercollegiate athletics are now administered as a part of the university's Division of Student Life, which oversees all student organizations and activities. Vanderbilt is currently the only Division I school without a separate athletic department. In making this decision, Chancellor Gordon Gee cited a need to reform college athletics, returning the emphasis to the student half of student-athletes.

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And then Gordon Gee went to Ohio State. What a joke

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At which point he came under fire for repeatedly running his cocksucker -- ironically -- about athletics.

Do you even English?

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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

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I like your Swagger son.



I mean, shut up gump!

Welcome. You've been here for 8 minutes. You should have been here in June. Something pretty cool happened then.

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From 1890 to 1920 Vandy was a top 15 school in winning percentage.

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How many teams actually had a program back then?

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Sec wasn't formed til 1933. Good effort though.

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Dr Dudley founded the SIAA in the late 1800's which morphed into the SoCon which morphed into the SEC in 1932. In the early days Vanderbilt won outright or shared at least a dozen conference championships. After World War II, and the emergence of the growth of the state schools with the help of the GI Bill most private schools could no longer compete with the larger student bodies and lower entrance requirements.

While claiming the SEC was not formed until the 1930's may be technically correct it is not with the same spirit that other conferences "extend" their histories as well. The B1G still uses all records from the old Western conference and its incarnations until the B1G was actually formed. The PAC was not formed until several seasons after the Pacific Coast Conference was totally disbanded for rampant cheating. This has not stopped the PAC from using all the old PCC records going back to the turn of the century as their own. The ACC uses SIAA and SoCon records in their history as well.

For a nice history of the good Dr LINK

In Bowling, Vanderbilt is the undisputed champion in the current SEC membership


In Baseball they have a new addition to the NCAA hardware

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From 1890 to 1920 Vandy was a top 15 school in winning percentage.

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How many teams actually had a program back then?

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The SIAA was the original Super Conference.
Current and former SEC underlined :::: Current ACC in BOLD


School // Tenure // Conference left for // Current conference

Alabama // 1894–1922 // Southern Conference // Southeastern Conference
Auburn // 1894–1922 // Southern Conference // Southeastern Conference
Centre // 1910–1941 // Southern Athletic Association (D-III)
Chattanooga // 1914–1932 // Southern Conference
The Citadel // 1909–1935 // Southern Conference // Southern Conference
Clemson // 1895–1922 // Southern Conference // Atlantic Coast Conference
Cumberland // 1895–1903 // Mid-South Conference (NAIA)
Dahlonega (North Georgia) // 1908–1909 // Peach Belt Conference (D-II)
Davidson // 1898–1906 // Atlantic 10 Conference
Florida // 1910–1922 // Southern Conference // Southeastern Conference
Furman // 1898–1935 // Southern Conference // Southern Conference
Georgetown (KY) // 1915–1941 // Mid-South Conference (NAIA)
Georgia // 1894–1922 // Southern Conference // Southeastern Conference
Georgia Tech // 1894–1922 // Southern Conference // Atlantic Coast Conference
Gordon Military College // 1906–1910 // Georgia Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA)
Howard College (Samford) // 1909–1938 // Southern Conference
Kentucky // 1895–1922 // Southern Conference //Southeastern Conference
Louisiana State // 1895–1923 // Southern Conference // Southeastern Conference
Louisville // 1914–1941 // Independent // Atlantic Coast Conference
Memphis University School // 1908–1910 // Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (HS)
Mercer // 1895–1937 // Atlantic Sun Conference (Pioneer Football League for CFB; Southern Conference for all sports in 2014)
Miami (FL) // 1929–1942 // Independent // Atlantic Coast Conference
Millsaps // 1908–1938 // Southern Athletic Association (D-III)
Mississippi // 1895–1922 // Southern Conference // Southeastern Conference
Mississippi College // 1910–1941 // American Southwest Conference (D-III)
Mississippi A&M (Mississippi State) // 1895–1922 // Southern Conference // Southeastern Conference
Nashville // 1895–1908 // University closed in 1909
North Carolina // 1894–1901 // South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association // Atlantic Coast Conference
Oglethorpe // 1920–1925 // Southern Athletic Association (D-III)
Presbyterian // 1921–1942 // Big South Conference
University of the South (Sewanee) // 1894–1924 // Southern Conference // Southern Athletic Association (D-III)
South Carolina // 1916–1922 // Southern Conference // Southeastern Conference
Southern University (Birmingham-Southern) // 1901–1912 // Southern Athletic Association (D-III)
Southwestern Presbyterian (Rhodes) // 1895–1903 // Southern Athletic Association (D-III)
Tennessee // 1895–1922 // Southern Conference // Southeastern Conference
Texas // 1895–1906 // Independent // Big 12 Conference
Texas A&M // 1903–1914 // Southwest Conference // Southeastern Conference
Transylvania // 1915–1941 // Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (D-III)
Trinity College (Duke) // 1903–1912 // Atlantic Coast Conference
Tulane // 1894–1922 // Southern Conference // Conference USA (American Athletic Conference in 2014)
Vanderbilt // 1894–1924 // Southern Conference // Southeastern Conference
Virginia Tech // 1898 // Atlantic Coast Conference
Wofford // 1903–1942 // Southern Conference

Actually UF won the SEC on the field in 1984 & 1985 but was slapped with some of the most serious sanctions ever....no TV for 2 years, huge scholly reductions etc etc...and we were just caught for the most with minor crap....one allegation was that an asst coach bought a pack of gum for a recruit...I kid you not.'

Why did UF get slammed? Think about it...Florida is a hotbed of recruits and Texas was too...SMU was really dirty...but it kept them from EVER being successful again to previous levels...the beneficiaries? Texas, A&M, the girls school and the Univ of NJ @ Coral Gables mainly.

We also won the SEC on the field during Spurriers first year and we couldn't go bowl game or claim title due to an unproven violation by an GA when he took Jarvis Williams to Palatka to pay fine or go to jail..but we probably were guilty....just not any evidence.

This shows how valuable Spurrier was to our program. We had oodles of def talent but couldn't do anything but Emmitt right or left or up the middle.

Why do you even care. As has been stated we are charter members of the SEC and are going no where. For the Football centric, we have a pretty gruesome record post 55. We had very good baseball teams back in the 70's as well. My senior year we won the SEC in basketball and baseball. We are an AAU member which is very important to the conference. I think the endowment is closer to 5 B. Yes our new head coach is a dumpster fire.