2025 Vanderbilt Football Mailbag #12: Call For Submissions – Anchor Of Gold

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For the first time in literally all of our lifetimes, Vanderbilt Football is 9-2 after kicking the ever loving shit out of the Jamal Mashburn Wedding Jerseys in perhaps the most complete dismantling of an SEC foe I’ve ever seen from my Gridiron Dores. It wasn’t just that we won 45-17, or that we were up 45-3 in the 3rd before effectively taking our feet off of our various gas pedals, or that the game was effectively over after the 1st quarter, or that our defense put their “somehow put up 38 on Florida” offense in a vice grip, or that our offense made their normally tough defense look like a bunch of high school kids, or…
…okay, I’ll stop saying what it was not. It was all of those things, AND the fact that the team from Lexington had 5 wins and had all the reason in the world to play their asses off for bowl eligibility.
I mean, during every single one of my college years, Vanderbilt went 2-9—and in some of those years they had a first round QB and Left Tackle! Also, a 2nd round LB and CB! Clark Lea may fast for more hours than there are in a day thrice weekly, but he, like us, has experienced an exponential amount of football-based starvation and pain. We all thought the Old Bald Poach (Jimmy Franks) years were Brigadoon, well, this doesn’t feel like it’s going to vanish into the ether any more.
We have had two winning SEC conference records since the 1960s. The last two times time we won 9 games (both during Brigadoon), we needed a Music City Bowl win over QAnoNCState and a BBVA Compass Bowl win over Houston to get there. The last time we won 9 in the regular season, well, I’ll cede my time to VandyImport:
“The last time Vandy won 9 games in the regular season, Nicholas II was Czar of all the Russias, America wasn’t in World War I yet and the forward pass, as a concept, was in year 3
I cannot believe this has happened and I’d rather die now than have died last week and missed this
SHOW YOUR GOLD”
Hell, have we been 9-2 since Dan McGugin???
This week, we eat turkey with family, drink wine with our mouths to mock the Chuds to the East, and WHIP THE EVER-LOVING CRAP OUT OF COACH BOBBY HILL AND THE BUTTCHUGGERS TO GO 10-2!!!
…and I’m sure you all have questions.
…and that’s it.
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