Jay Cutler had no idea where Vanderbilt was when he decided to commit there

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Have I not told you the story of how I ended up at Vandy? Oh, gosh. So it's basketball season and it's early January and I get a call, you know at school they did the intercom thing, 'Jay Cutler, come to the office.' I'm like, what's happening now? Get to the office and they're like 'hey, the AD wants to talk to you.' So I go down there and he's like 'Vandy called, they want to talk to you.' And they're like 'hey, we just watched your tape, we're just kind of cleaning up the rest of our recruiting. We'd like you, but we don't think you can play tight end in the SEC.' I was like 'well, that's fine, I don't even play tight end.'

And then he was like 'well, who is this?' I told him my name and he's like 'alright, well, we see your tape, we'll watch it and we'll call you back in a little bit.' I'm like 'OK.' Hang up the phone and look at [the AD] and I'm like 'they're not calling, can I go back to class now?' So I go back to class and literally three hours later, same thing. I get down there [to the AD's office] and he's like 'hey, they're on the phone,' and I talk to him and he's like 'we love the tape, we want you to come to Vandy, we have a scholarship for you but we need to know by the end of the day.'

I was like, why? He's like 'well we've got these two other people, there are two scholarships left and three kids out there just waiting on them. Whoever gets them first gets them.'

Now, I don't even know where Vandy is, I'm in Indiana, Big Ten country, and I'm like 'where is Vandy?' No idea. So I look at the AD and I'm like 'hey, I gotta go home, I've gotta figure this out, talk to my dad.' So I go home and it's like the dial up internet thing, I get on and it's making all those noises and I'm looking at Vandy, Nashville, I'm like 'where the hell is Nashville?' Trying to figure this out. And I call my dad and I tell him and he's like 'oh, you're going,' and I'm like, I don't even know where this place is and he's like 'you're going, just call them back and tell them you're going.'

So I did a little bit more research, whatever a 17-year-old kid could do at that point, called them back and I'm like 'alright, I'm in, let's do this.' Two weeks later went down for a visit and the rest is history.

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