I know, we played them tight last year, but was checking out sec scores this morning and geez, they got blown out by east Tennessee state at home.

Dr Lane Trowlan said:

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Because they've been in the conference since 1932.

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Bring back Tulane then...

The jokes just write themselves at times.

Can someone cite the law that says SEC is protected from open records of it has a private member? Pretty sure that's an urban legend.

Vandy is in SEC because no reason to kick them out. Though I think in 20 years SEC no longer exists and there's a "super group" of the top 30-40 or so schools.

Bring back Sewanee

Because they started it.

Balance they are what many others aren't.

Same reason Rutgers got invited to the Big 10.

.ethos.

Token smart school.

Big10 has Northwestern, PAC12 has Stanford, ACC has Duke, Big12 has.. SEC has to keep up with the legit power conferences. ;-)

For the baseball natties.

Helps with all of those sports conference academic rankings . Lots of $ at stake.

It's in nashville. Damn good away game trip!

WC94 said:

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That's rich. A school who has been in the SEC 80 years less, calling to boot a founding member out. We are starting to sound like sips.

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Calm down. It's one message board moron

Fun Fact: Vanderbilt and Texas have played 12 times. Vanderbilt has won 8, Texas 3 and they've tied once.

Perhaps the SEC powers that be are keeping Vanderbilt so they can smack Texas around.

Geez, I just wish we had a comparable team in the WEST.

Same question every year

Duke
Northwestern
Stanford
Rice

Every conference has at least one.

Well, except the Big12.

William_C_G said:

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Big10 has Northwestern, PAC12 has Stanford, ACC has Duke, Big12 has.. SEC has to keep up with the legit power conferences. ;-)

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Northwestern: has won its conference within the last 30 years, and has competed for divisional titles within the last ten.

Stanford: likewise.

Duke: ACC is a special case b/c it's a basketball conference and no way in hell do you lose Duke.

Big Dumpster Fire: Baylor and TCU have been competitive in the last ten years. This may be more a commentary on the conference than on those schools, however.

Vandy has not been competitive in football since James Franklin left (Derek Mason lost both his bowl games), and hasn't competed for a conference title in the modern era (post-1970).

"There is no way you can be Harvard Monday through Friday and try to be Alabama on Saturday." --Art Guepe, 1953-62, most SEC wins of any Vandy coach.

What's the problem with having a few crappy schools in the conference? Bragging about how tough the conference is great till you have to play all the damn heavyweights.

Somebody has got to be the Ringo in the SEC.