I would also be remiss not to point out that on the same day that Vandy men’s basketball re-enters the polls (AP #17, coaches #21), the Vandy men’s baseball team found themselves ranked #1 in Baseball America‘s college baseball poll.
Go back and read that again. #1. In. The. Country.
And to think when I arrived, McGugin Field didn’t even have lights.
Proof, if any were needed, of what I’ve said all along: there is absolutely no reason that top-flight academics and top-flight athletics cannot coexist in college sports, and anybody who says otherwise is using academic standards as a crutch for an inability to close the deal. A lesson somebody could stand to take to heart in the West End of Birmingham.