re: If this is the SEC Rant, where are the Vandy fans?

I am actually a Vandy grad. Yup. Columbia, Missouri born and raised into a family of diehard Mizzou fans and I was going to Mizzou games (home and road) since before I was old enough to know what town I was in. Was always gonna be a Mizzou Tiger fan for life. That didn't change when I got accepted to and attended Vandy for undergrad.

Fact is, Vandy at the time I was there almost took pride in not caring about sports (they merged/did away with their "athletic department" and just made it part of the school as a whole while I was there). So I never felt guilty about continuing to support my home state and hometown Mizzou Tigers first, foremost and always. If Vandy as an institution didn't care much about its sports, why should I? And there were plenty of kids there from SEC states that did the same thing - Georgia kids who rooted for UGA, Kentucky kids who kept rooting for UK, and so on.

That seems to have changed somewhat and Vandy is working more on crafting some semblance of school spirit which is good. But it has very little of it historically, coupled with just a small alumni base period.