[NU Sports] Columnist calls for Vandy to be kicked out of SEC

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

Ugh - that does bring up some bad memories of the "kick NU out of the Big Ten" movement in the 80s.

However, they can flip the writer's smug sentence on him and say that the only reason the SEC has "held on" to Vanderbilt is for a shred of academic credibility. Face it, without the Commodores, they might as well strip the word "University" from the rest of the schools in the league. 

This summer's Big Ten search and the introduction to the non academic world that there was an AAU outside of the basketball club only highlighted the gap between the SEC and other schools in terms of the focus on being a real university and not just a Nike factory.

Probably nothing to worry about for Vandy - but this isn't the Big Ten, it's the SEC, and I wouldn't dismiss the push as easily. It may be all talk, but at least the Big Ten uses the term "student athlete" without mumbling the first word.

Oh well, columns like that forget how things can always change. One preview magazine this year had a list of six BCS schools not carrying their weight in their respective conferences - Indiana was listed for the Big Ten, not Northwestern!

GO CATS!!!
-SjT

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