Comments on Vanderbilt Sports Line: Dores-Vols Preview: "Oh, the Humanity"

Eh. They're pretty big on Dabo down here. I think ...

2009-11-21T21:44:44.305-05:00

Eh. They're pretty big on Dabo down here. I think he's got that job is locked up for a while.

But I will retract my statement about him potentially being a desired commodity. I would just say that he was in a better spot last year than this one.

Haha, well the short answer to that is “getting ma...

2009-11-21T17:50:03.336-05:00

Haha, well the short answer to that is “getting married and trying to avoid failing out of law school at the same time.” But seriously, here are a few brief responses to the onslaught:

1) Apparently Katherine Miller at InsideVandy thinks I’m right on the money re CBJ potentially jumping ship. So put that in your pipe and smoke it.

2) Rise and shine: CBJ is on UVA’s radar along with Tommy Tuberville, Jim Grobe, Mike London. Which reminds me, Wake might be a possibility too if Grobe gets hired by his alma mater. And believe it or not, UVA is an attractive coaching job.

3) Fair enough about Clemson, but don’t forget that they’ve been talking about CBJ for years -- especially last year -- given their perennial underachievement, and he was very high on their short list in the offseason. CJ Spiller might carry the Tigers to a division title today (although as of this writing that’s not looking overly convincing), but a lot of fans and boosters were furious that they stayed internal with Dabo Swinney -- his future as head honcho there is anything but guaranteed.

4) Clemson and UVA were examples off the top of my head but obviously not intended to be exhaustive of the possibilities.

5) Anyone who thinks CBJ is not a desirable commodity in the college football coaching world hasn’t been paying very close attention to the chatter the past three seasons. I don’t think the comment about recruiting even merits a response. Well, maybe just one: see NFL rosters.

6) The main point was not about CBJ being fired or hired away, it was the point Andrew picked up on: He’s loyal to a fault with his staff and needs to fire his offensive coordinator. Plain and simple.

7) Jonathan Crompton has played well in several games this season, I’ll give you that. But seriously, congratulations to him on 5 TD passes against, um, MEMPHIS...Forgive me if I’m not proclaiming him the second coming. The guy went 4 of 13 on 3rd downs last week in a 45-17 loss to Ole Miss, so the point about him being inconsistent still stands. Crompton may have started hitting some receivers, but he hasn’t given up on spraying his fair share of passes. Anyway, your examples of games where he’s sucked and games where he’s been good just proves the point that you never know what you’re going to get with that head case.

8) BYOB, fellas. Bring Your Own BOO-YA.

Crompton is just a disastrous head case? 2008? Yes...

2009-11-21T03:22:24.753-05:00

Crompton is just a disastrous head case? 2008? Yes. First half 2009? Pretty much.
Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Memphis, Ole Miss: anything but.
2124 yards, 23 TDs in 2009. Where have ya been?

seamus i have to assume you went "brain dead" for ...

2009-11-21T00:19:55.879-05:00

seamus
i have to assume you went "brain dead" for a moment or two....no one is touching cbj right now.....espically after this season.
schools looking for a new head coach want a winner or a big time recruiter[ala tennessee]...cbj is neither...i'm sure he's a nice guy and is kind to his family/etc...but, he's not going anywhere unless vandy chooses to terminate.
i only saw vandy play once or twice on tv....but, unfortunately, saw them play army....wow what a disappointment....there was no life to the team...they went thru the motions...thats the coaching staffs fault.
with all the bs above, i hope they can beat ut....nothing better than a ut loss
papa oshea

James Carville takes Vanderbilt and the 17 on the ...

2009-11-20T20:18:03.781-05:00

James Carville takes Vanderbilt and the 17 on the Mr. Tony show. He's 19-23 on the year, so this might be more of a blessing than a curse.

Clemson is not going after him as they are most li...

2009-11-20T19:10:36.588-05:00

Clemson is not going after him as they are most likely going to win their division of the ACC. Why would he go to UVA? Also what really troubles me about this year is that we have the talent to be much much better. In the beginning of the CBJ era we had little to no talent but did the most with it. But we have some real talent on this roster and yet severely under-performed this year. Its really time for CBJ to fire Ted Cain. I don't care how good a recruiter he is or how good friends they are. He simply has no idea how to develop an offense. PERIOD. If Ted Cain comes back next year I'm going to be really pissed.

I, too, agree with the specific point that Cain mu...

2009-11-20T19:01:11.879-05:00

I, too, agree with the specific point that Cain must go, but I think you're close to making a larger and more important point: top college coaches care about winning more than being nice guys and CBJ needs to realize that.

I think he has let this season slide away because he was unwilling to castrate underperforming players and coaches early in the season. This team had the talent to win six or seven games, even with the injuries.

Sadly, both CBJ and all Vandy fans will suffer for this for years to come because he has utterly undone whatever the past seven years have done to improve our ability to recruit.

1) CBJ isn't going anywhere anytime soon. MAYBE U...

2009-11-20T18:46:34.307-05:00

1) CBJ isn't going anywhere anytime soon. MAYBE UVA will call him in the offseason, but they were certainly more likely to do so last year when we had a winning season than this one.

2) I'm with you on Ted Cain. It's time to end this madness. He can't go riding the Jay Cutler offense coat-tails forever. Changes have to be made to use our talent. Period.