{"id":40,"date":"2007-02-19T20:24:36","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T20:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2007-02-19T20:24:36","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T20:24:36","slug":"dynamite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Dynamite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI would also be remiss not to point out that on the same day that Vandy men&#8217;s basketball re-enters the polls (AP #17, coaches #21), the Vandy men&#8217;s baseball team found themselves ranked #1 in <em>Baseball America<\/em>&#8216;s college baseball poll.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGo back and read that again.  #1. In. The. Country.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd to think when I arrived, McGugin Field didn&#8217;t even have <em>lights.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nProof, if any were needed, of what I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would also be remiss not to point out that on the same day that Vandy men&#8217;s basketball re-enters the polls (AP #17, coaches #21), the Vandy men&#8217;s baseball team found themselves ranked #1 in Baseball America&#8216;s college baseball poll. Go back and read that again. #1. In. The. Country. And to think when I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=40\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dynamite!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}