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Posted on 7/30/18 at 4:27 pm to DoreonthePlains
Ahem, some more information on Pancoast from someone who has more information (aka was alive) during his time at Vandy. And I cede to this person, parlagi, from Anchor of Gold (Vandy's SB Nation site). Feel free to ignore some of the inside jokes, but holy shite. What a shitshow, even for Vandy football.
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I really, really don't want to defend Rod Dowhower. At all. But the proper answer for Vanderbilt really needs to be Fred Pancoast. He was WAY before most of our times, but the numbers are pretty clear. (Keep in mind Steve Sloan’s 1974 team went 7-3-2. They’d tied Texas Tech in the Peach Bowl, tied Tennessee, and beaten a very good Sugar Bowl-bound Florida team.)
1975: Went 7-4 with Sloan’s players and won in Knoxville. However, the team was outscored 200-119 on the year. They got unbelievably lucky in their 5 OOC games, as the best opponents were 4-7 Tulane and 1-10 Virginia. They beat Rice 9-6, Tulane 6-3, and Virginia 17-14.
(Summer 1976: Vertigo, God of Insanity rolls over in its tomb underneath Dudley Field, and the luck runs out.)
1976: Went 2-9 (0-6 SEC) with wins over Wake and Air Force. Lost 45-0 to Georgia, 33-7 to Cincinnati, and 42-14 to Alabama.
1977: Went 2-9 (0-6 SEC). Beat Cincinnati 13-9 and Wake 3-0. Lost to a four-win Tennessee team 42-7, a three-win Tulane 36-7, and 2-8-1 Air Force.
1978: Went 2-9 (0-6 SEC). Beat Air Force and Furman (17-10). Lost 53-2 to Kentucky, 38-3 to Tulane, 35-14 to Memphis, 49-7 to Auburn, 41-15 to UT, and 48-17 to Arky.
1979: Pancoast was gone, but his players went 1-10 (0-6 SEC). Lost 66-3 to Alabama, 63-28 to Ole Miss, 44-13 to Indiana, 42-14 to Tulane, and 27-14 to The Citadel**. [** – The Southern Conference was in I-A until 1982 or 1983. That’s why Vanderbilt’s never lost to a I-AA/FCS team.]
1980: Still his players. 2-9 (0-6 SEC). Beat Memphis by 4 and UTC by 2. Lost 41-0 to Alabama, 41-0 to Georgia, 31-6 to Maryland, 43-21 to Tulane, and 51-13 to Tennessee. Vanderbilt lost 33 straight SEC games from 1976-1981. I don’t know how George McIntyre took them to 8-4 in 1982.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 9:56 pm to DoreonthePlains
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Rod Dowhower
Dowhower will always be an object of infamy for LSU fans. In 1996 he REFUSED to allow LSU to wear its traditional whites in Tiger Stadium after Gerry Dinardo went to extreme pains to get the NCAA to relent on its draconian uniform policy.
Dowhower was a cardinal jerk, in addition to being a terrible coach.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 12:28 am to tarzana
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Dowhower will always be an object of infamy for LSU fans. In 1996 he REFUSED to allow LSU to wear its traditional whites in Tiger Stadium after Gerry Dinardo went to extreme pains to get the NCAA to relent on its draconian uniform policy.
It may have had something to do with DiNardo having left Vandy for LSU, too.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 1:10 am to Somebody2
Mike Price
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