re: Not trolling. Why is a FCS/Mid-major-level football program like Vanderbilt in the SEC?

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Yeah, a poser or tshirt fan..If Texas (the school) respects anything, it is academics..

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so texas has someone to play at 11 o'clock because as bad as texas has been over the last 10 years, your not going to sniff prime time games, these times are for the big boys of the conference.

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They make the other SEC bottom feeders like texas look like powerhouses by comparison.

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Fixed it for ya bitch arse ....

Also Vandy is a charter member of the SEC. The other members value their loyalty and return it. Something UTa is totally unfamiliar with.

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To answer your question, leftover legacy from a different era. Stanford/Vandy are at a cross-road and the future is not clear.

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The Directors' Cup, is an award given annually by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to the colleges and universities in the United States with the most success in collegiate athletics.

Guess who's won this 25 of the last 26 years.

Fact, the Dores have more credibility to be in the SEC as a whole than Texas.

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It's amazing how arrogant Texas fans are, down to the last man. Absolutely zero surprise that they've destroyed two conferences in the past 25 years.

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I really want to believe that the complete moron longhorn posters starting all the threads on the SEC rant are just alter trolls of existing posters, but there’s got to be a few real ones in there for the average to remain so consistently moronic. It’s like sad UFCknight and some arkie posters had a baby and that baby made a baby with Harvie Updyke.

You don't understand the problem. The Cal schools (UCLA/Cal), Stanford, Vandy, etc have such large endowment's and budgets that they will never fund the football program like an SEC school. Texas is an anomaly with athletics. These other schools will be forced to invest in facilities, etc or drop down like Harvard, etc. The University of Alabama depends on the football team for marketing the University. Stanford makes more on their investments than everyone in the SEC combined minus Texas and Vandy. Stanford will never care about sports.

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Private schools in a conference exempt interconference communication from FOIA requests. Every major conference has at least one private school.

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Thank you. This comes up every year and every year someone has to explain this to folks. I appreciate that you used small words to describe it to our new Whorn fans.

Unless we swap in Tulane for Vandy (why would we?) the SEC will never get rid of Vanderbilt unless the campus is destroyed by a random asteroid strike.

Vanderbilt = Rice in Longhorn eyes. I have nothing but respect for Vandy (and Rice).

The original post is most likely a troll. Probably aggy.

Vanderbilt is a leading university in the world (like Rice). The SEC is rightfully proud to have Vandy as a member. As a Longhorn (and not as a slight to any school than aggy), Vandy is a valuable asset to the SEC and a reason to come to the SEC.
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