Watch the last hit.
And that pretty much sums up the game against LSU.
But, as I found out today, at least VU has the number one football schedule poster. Suck on that.
Dores VS LSU
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The Week That Was
This past week was a blur. Lots of homework, group assignments, presentations, group meetings, career/personality assessments, and sleep deprivation. I think they finally turned on the fire because everyone was saying how tired they were. And it was just Monday. As crazy as it sounds, I’m enjoying it because business school > work on any day.
This week also revealed the “competitive yet collaborative” environment that so aptly describes the Owen culture. You’ll find people still at school way past 12:00am working hard on some homework assignment, yet they are still approachable and helpful if you are stuck on a problem. It’s great because I have no idea how I’d ever get any of my accounting done without help from my classmates.
As you can tell by my terser than usual words, my brain is pretty exhausted so enjoy some pics I took during the week. I’m finding out that the BB camera isn’t so bad after all.
New Vandy Football Coach
Bobbie Caldwell, the new interim head coach for Vandy football, tore it up @ the SEC media day and was the talk of the town. Press conference below.
Jim Rome interviewed Caldwell yesterday. The interview can be heard here for free @ VUcommodores. No thanks to Rome for charging to listen to the interview.
I think the coach is a nice guy and I love his southern drawl. One has to wonder though whether a guy who has spent 30 years as an assistant coach is ready to lead a football team in the SEC as the man. At the very least, I think people will be pulling for him, in a Rudy-esque kind of way, as the team is getting its butt kicked (the schedule is nightmare this year). Best of luck to him and the team.
Goodbye BJ
From what I’ve been able to gather, Vandy, which competes in the SEC against powerhouses such as Florida, Bama, and Tennessee, has an atrocious football team. The biggest achievement by the football team in the past decade was a win against BC in the Music City Bowl, which is not enough to make people forget that the team has come in last place six out of the last eight seasons. Yes, the Dores suck, which is why I was surprised to see that the news of Bobby Johnson,Vandy’s football coach, retiring being the number two story over at ESPN (at least it was when I first saw the news). I was even more shocked that the evil four letter spent well over five minutes talking about BJ leaving, ruminating on who is going to take over in the interim and who might actually want to coach at Vandy given that it’s not really a football school albeit it’s an SEC school.
That being said, I’m looking forward to the trouncing the football team will receive this year. Better to have a team that stinks than not because it affords the opportunity to do tailgates, or in other words, drink. Go Dores.
Football is King in Texas
Friday Night Lights. Varsity Blues. Necessary Roughness. What do these movies have in common? Great acting and Texas high school football (although Necessary Roughness is technically about college football).
Texas has an undeniable passion for football. Even down at the high school level, the amount of passion is ridiculous. Some town in Texas is spending $60 million for a new HIGH SCHOOL football stadium that will seat 50,000 people. Article here.
I bet that my high school’s football stadium has never in its 40+ year history seen that many people. Total. Although the article disputes this, but it looks like Texas has its priority straight; football first, education second.