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Vanderbilt may have lost out, however narrowly, on a national title in women’s bowling. But that is just the beginning of our quest for national titles in sports that Vol fans say don’t matter, mostly because the Vols suck at most of them

For my father and other members of The Baby Boomers, it was the Vietnam Draft, Watergate, and that time they got a lifelong job with security and a pension because someone they just met offered them a job in a field they have no experience in because that person liked the cut of their jib. For the current generation, Gen Z (aka The iPhone Generation), they have but one watershed moment: the moment they realized current Vanderbilt Men’s Basketball Coach Jerry Stackhouse is the reincarnated form of Anton LaVey, founder of The Church of Satan. Now I am not saying Coach Jerry Stackhouse is the founder of The Church of Satan, in the same way I am not claiming Tenzin Gyatso is the same person as Ngawang Lobsang Thupten Gyatso Jigdral Chokley Namgyal, nor are either the same person, exactly, as Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion and the patron saint of Tibet.

They are ranked the No. 4 team in the NCAA according to Golfstat, giving them the highest ranking of any SEC team. The Commodores’ ranking is based on a four factor system: head-to-head competition, common opponents, second level opponents, and a combination of adjusted average score (determined by course difficulty), average drop score, and strength of schedule. There are three rounds of stroke play to determine seeding followed by three rounds of head to head match play for the team championship. If the ‘Dores can go low in the first three rounds, which their scoring average predicts, and then move into match play with experience and confidence, they will have a great shot at claiming the 2019 SEC Championships.

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