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<span style="font-weight: bold;">1. Shan Foster.</span> I know, different sport, but this Bulldog will forever hate Vanderbilt for that one night in February. We had a finger up that SOB's nose and he still made 25-footers like it was a layup. It took 42 points from Foster to get Vandy the 86-85 overtime victory over MState, and that bastard hit nine straight three-pointers in the second half and overtime to boot. I also hate all things Laurel because of Shan Foster. That town gave birth to this son of a *****.
Also worth mentioning is Vanderbilt's upset of MState basketball in the 2004 SEC Tournament. That overtime loss probably cost us a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Instead, we get a No. 2 seed and run into a red-hot Xavier team a week later.
<span style="font-weight: bold;">2. Vanderbilt students and alumni are better than you.</span> Or at least they think they are. I can give you a dozen stories to back this up from my days in Nashville, but these Ivy-league wannabes are rather difficult to deal with.
When I lived in Nashville, I lived in a middle class neighborhood in the suburbs. Not the Governor's Club but not the slums of Antioch. My next door neighbor was a Vanderbilt graduate, surrounding neighbors went to UT, MTSU, Virginia Tech, Auburn and one didn't even graduate high school, but ran a successful mechanic franchise.
The point being is that all of us lived in similar homes, drove similar vehicles, had similar pay-grade jobs - yet this guy would remind us everytime he spoke to anyone that he had "graduated from Vanderbilt, an elite college compared to where we went."
As time went by, people stopped talking to this douche and I guess it hurt his feelings so he started knocking on doors and inviting himself in. One time he came over to my house while I was watching an MState game (I think we were playing Alabama in '06 - the postcard game).
Douchebag starts critiquing my wine, my wife's interior design tastes and finally says I did not realize that you went to Ole Miss. They are on the same level of Vanderbilt so I guess you're alright, unlike the ******** across the street (the mechanic who may have been the best neighbor we had). "Did you know that he never graduated high school."
I asked him how it made him feel. He had a confused look on his face and I repeated - How does it make you feel that a high school dropout is just as successful as you, and you have a $50,000 degree? His response? "My degree cost $80,000" I showed him the door and never had any interaction with him again.
Most Vanderbilt-related people are like this. Ask any of the many Nashvillians on SixPack.
<span style="font-weight: bold;">3. An inferiority complex that makes USM look normal.</span> As far as sports, Vanderbilt cannot figure out why Nashville will not support them. Here's a clue - read item #2. In the past five years, Vandy has had a #1 ranked baseball team in the postseason, a top 15 football team, and top 10 men's and women's basketball teams. That's great, but no one outside the Vanderbilt family gives a damn.
And Vanderbilt ***** and moans about "We're Nashville's team but we don't get support" You don't get support because you're arrogant ********. I went to a Vandy tailgate one time and they had 24 types of wine. That doesn't float well with the normal football fan. All the griping that the city doesn't support "their college team" gets old quick.
Next week's a tough one - need some help. PM me with anything you have on the Georgia Institute of Technology.
<span style="font-weight: bold;">1. Shan Foster.</span> I know, different sport, but this Bulldog will forever hate Vanderbilt for that one night in February. We had a finger up that SOB's nose and he still made 25-footers like it was a layup. It took 42 points from Foster to get Vandy the 86-85 overtime victory over MState, and that bastard hit nine straight three-pointers in the second half and overtime to boot. I also hate all things Laurel because of Shan Foster. That town gave birth to this son of a *****.
Also worth mentioning is Vanderbilt's upset of MState basketball in the 2004 SEC Tournament. That overtime loss probably cost us a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Instead, we get a No. 2 seed and run into a red-hot Xavier team a week later.
<span style="font-weight: bold;">2. Vanderbilt students and alumni are better than you.</span> Or at least they think they are. I can give you a dozen stories to back this up from my days in Nashville, but these Ivy-league wannabes are rather difficult to deal with.
When I lived in Nashville, I lived in a middle class neighborhood in the suburbs. Not the Governor's Club but not the slums of Antioch. My next door neighbor was a Vanderbilt graduate, surrounding neighbors went to UT, MTSU, Virginia Tech, Auburn and one didn't even graduate high school, but ran a successful mechanic franchise.
The point being is that all of us lived in similar homes, drove similar vehicles, had similar pay-grade jobs - yet this guy would remind us everytime he spoke to anyone that he had "graduated from Vanderbilt, an elite college compared to where we went."
As time went by, people stopped talking to this douche and I guess it hurt his feelings so he started knocking on doors and inviting himself in. One time he came over to my house while I was watching an MState game (I think we were playing Alabama in '06 - the postcard game).
Douchebag starts critiquing my wine, my wife's interior design tastes and finally says I did not realize that you went to Ole Miss. They are on the same level of Vanderbilt so I guess you're alright, unlike the ******** across the street (the mechanic who may have been the best neighbor we had). "Did you know that he never graduated high school."
I asked him how it made him feel. He had a confused look on his face and I repeated - How does it make you feel that a high school dropout is just as successful as you, and you have a $50,000 degree? His response? "My degree cost $80,000" I showed him the door and never had any interaction with him again.
Most Vanderbilt-related people are like this. Ask any of the many Nashvillians on SixPack.
<span style="font-weight: bold;">3. An inferiority complex that makes USM look normal.</span> As far as sports, Vanderbilt cannot figure out why Nashville will not support them. Here's a clue - read item #2. In the past five years, Vandy has had a #1 ranked baseball team in the postseason, a top 15 football team, and top 10 men's and women's basketball teams. That's great, but no one outside the Vanderbilt family gives a damn.
And Vanderbilt ***** and moans about "We're Nashville's team but we don't get support" You don't get support because you're arrogant ********. I went to a Vandy tailgate one time and they had 24 types of wine. That doesn't float well with the normal football fan. All the griping that the city doesn't support "their college team" gets old quick.
Next week's a tough one - need some help. PM me with anything you have on the Georgia Institute of Technology.
