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bluemountain said:
Vandy has had exactly 0 playoff caliber teams in their history. Coming into this year, their best team went 8-4 and they have NEVER finished in the top 5 in the SEC. Every single team in the SEC has a far better football history than Vandy does - there is nobody even close. Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, LSU, Oklahoma and Texas are all national powers historically with massive fan bases and funding. Not only does Vandy have to be better than 3 or 4 of these teams to make a playoff, they also have to be better than Ole Miss, Texas A&M, Auburn and Missouri, who all have strong histories and massive funding. And if they can somehow also be better than these 4, they also have to beat out Arkansas, Kentucky, South Carolina and Mississippi State, who all look at Vandy as their ideal homecoming opponent.

What you are seeing out of Vandy this year is a once in a century type of thing. The chances of it happening again in our lifetime are extremely small. Given all this, you are telling me Vandy has a better chance of making a playoff than a school such as Clemson or Georgia Tech - that it is more likely Vandy will be a top 5 SEC team than it is that Ga Tech is a top 2 ACC team?
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Might very well be true but that's what we all thought about Indiana last year. Look at em now.
 
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IlliniNash
STLini25 said:
I agree those are good jobs. My main point is BT/SEC jobs are a different level. BT/SEC are cherry picking another 6ish of the best jobs in the next couple years so that’s 41 schools in the BT/SEC and ND and all of the power and most of the money. Non BT/SEC schools are not in a good spot and are in a worse spot in 2030.

The Athletic this week ranked Vandy as 10th best job in the SEC. That means they are inside the Top 20 by their rankings. Safely inside top 30 nationally. My point wasn’t to quibble where but to point out it’s a great job in modern football.
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Vanderbilt has a hell of a lot of money. Whether they will throw it at football is another question. So far they have upped the ante a fair amount.
 
#985      
IlliniNash
STL Illini said:
Nashville is known for country music and hot chicken. Yes, the traffic sucks, because so many people want to live there. Nashville is booming not just because of country music and hot chicken. Any type of music you might want to hear you’ll find in Nashville. My wife and I joke that the worst band we hear in Nashville would be the best local band we hear in STL. (Some truth to that)
They have the Titans and Predators. Vandy is beautiful. Concerts galore from every genre. Every kind of food you could want. Large police presence on and around Broadway to keep the vibrant night life as safe as reasonably possible.
Nashville is awesome to this non-country music fan who doesn’t care to eat hot chicken.
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I live here and your assessment is spot on.
 
#986      
Mr. Tibbs
wifey & I coming in late December for 2-3 days , whether Illini there or not .
 
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mhuml32
#990      
BretMyBeachHouse
I think people aren't figuring in the fan and alumni base for Vanderbilt. They are on the smaller side for a P4 and don't have the history that can easily generate more donations as the program ramps up.
 
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BZuppke
Battle89 said:
Just my personal experience from my little corner of the world, so take it as you will, but I have multiple people in both my family and friends groups who are planning to retire in Tennessee. All originally from here (Chicago area). Hotter than hot as a retirement destination around here. And those that don't pick Tennessee are choosing Texas.
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Enjoy 6 months of god awful humidity and heat and snakes!!! They have lots of them.
 
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lstewart53x3
Battle89 said:
Just my personal experience from my little corner of the world, so take it as you will, but I have multiple people in both my family and friends groups who are planning to retire in Tennessee. All originally from here (Chicago area). Hotter than hot as a retirement destination around here. And those that don't pick Tennessee are choosing Texas.
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Lotta Illinoisans in the Scottsdale area as well.
 
#995      
SKane
I live in east TN. I go to the gym almost every day and every time I see new license plates from midwestern and east coast states in the parking lot.
 
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pruman91
LFOD said:
TN ... we're number 3 in the nation in violent crime. As they say, you come down for the music and BBQ, and you stay 'cause you got murdered.

Vandy is a nice campus, however.
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TN has high business fees or license fees that offset the state tax exemption.......I had 2 agents in TN and they lamented about the cost of being a registered rep in TN......my daughter lives in Southaven MS which is just south of Memphis and she always talks about how violent Memphis is.....glad she doesn't have to commute to work through that crime riddled town.......she also said she sees a lot of TN license plates at the Walmart in Southaven because of the high sales tax in TN.........she said if any town in the USA needed troops sent in , then Memphis should be # 1 on that list.......just her humble opinion.......
 
#997      
Illini in Italy
We just spent the past two weeks in Nashville. When we retired, we had TN on the list of potential locations (we decided on the panhandle of FL, or 'LA' to the locals - 'Lower Alabama') due to their no income and lower property tax rates. The sales is tax is one of the highest in the nation (7% state, plus up to 1.5% local), and fuel taxes push their prices up to 75¢ per gallon more than neighbor Alabama to the south. We made sure we filled up our RV outside of TN.
 
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