They walked the goal post over 3 miles and chunked it in the river after taking down The Tide. Vanderbilt has been the whoopin’ post in the SEC, like Rice was back in SWC days. Not today.

https://www.tennessean.com/sto...a-upset/75547227007/

It's a good thing Nick Saban isn't there anymore. Some Bama players would be in the river along with the goal post.

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Originally posted by Jupiter:
It's a good thing Nick Saban isn't there anymore. Some Bama players would be in the river along with the goal post.

Ummm... according to the article it was the Vandy fans that did this, not Bama!

His point was Saban would be throwing the Bama players in the river for losing! (Especially to the perennial worst team in the SEC...)

As a Vandy grad and even longer suffering fan, this win was a long time coming and it felt so sweet. I was at the last win (in Tuscaloosa) in 1984 so it was nice to see the 40 years and string of 23 straight losses come to an end.

Though I may have missed some, the only other time I can recall Vandy tearing down the goal posts was 1982 after beating Tennessee. Since it had been at least several years, the SEC fined Vandy $100K for this "first offense." Several pieces of game memorabilia (including the goal post, which was pulled from the river and is being sawed up in pieces) are up for auction to help pay the fine, though I expect some boosters probably had their checkbooks out before the goalpost made it out onto West End (which intersects Broadway and goes to the Cumberland).

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Originally posted by Jupiter:
It's a good thing Nick Saban isn't there anymore. Some Bama players would be in the river along with the goal post.

Malachi Moore is my candidate for that after he banged Vandy quarterback Diego Pavia's head off the turf while "getting up," throwing a mouthpiece, refusing to come out of the game, and kicking the ball away after the ref set it for the next play. He didn't get caught on the first two but got an unsportsmanlike conduct call on the last one. He apologized today saying that it was the heat of the moment. There may have been some internal, unpublicized punishment, but Bama Coach Kalen DeBoer decided today that would not include suspension, as had been called for by many VU and Bama fans alike.

https://www.tuscaloosanews.com...i-moore/75409716007/

As a student, I can fully understand letting your emotions get the better of you and participating in tearing down the goal posts and carrying them wherever. As a nearly 60 year old man I wonder if any of them were arrested.

It's funny what age'll do to a fella.

Well it is good to see David beat Goliath. My bet is a pounding next year from Bama.

That was a 100,000 dollar celebration I hear .

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Originally posted by Gustofer:


It's funny what age'll do to a fella.

You're right about that.
These young kids created memories that will last a life time. Good clean fun.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
His point was Saban would be throwing the Bama players in the river for losing! (Especially to the perennial worst team in the SEC...)

He would have had a stroke for sure.

Saban was the only coach in recent memory that would chew out the coaching staff for the other team.

Happy to see a moment for my alma mater!

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Good clean fun.

Sounds more like vandalism and destruction of property. And the school got a $100,000 fine. Yea.

The Nashville FD had to fish it out of the river - great use of taxpayer money.

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Originally posted by 229DAK:

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Good clean fun.

Sounds more like vandalism and destruction of property. And the school got a $100,000 fine. Yea.

How many years in prison should these gang bangers get?

Maybe they should have had the campus police crack some heads and call out the National Guard.

Rationalize all you want. The school has to spend its finite resources to fix it.

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Originally posted by Jupiter:
It's a good thing Nick Saban isn't there anymore. Some Bama players would be in the river along with the goal post.

Miss Terry wouldn't allow that.

The goalposts came down in Knoxville two years ago when they beat Bama. And, it costs 15k to replace.

Yes, Vanderbilt's endowment fund dropped to 9.7 billion dollars in 2023.

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Originally posted by 229DAK:
Rationalize all you want. The school has to spend its finite resources to fix it.

As long as I can remember, goal posts have been torn down after huge wins in college football. I'm an Alabama fan but I was happy to see Vandy have their moment.

SEC Shorts (MUST watch with the Captions on):

Screw Bama and Nick Saben. Sick and tired of listening to that shit

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Originally posted by selogic:
That was a 100,000 dollar celebration I hear .

HA! Arkansas was fined $250,000 and they did not tear down the goalpost.

^^^

SEC Shorts was a hoot, with the celebrating royalty character harkening back to the episode from week one of this season when Vandy knocked off Virginia Tech (which, incidentally, is my grad school alma mater).

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Originally posted by SW_Sig:

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Originally posted by selogic:
That was a 100,000 dollar celebration I hear .

HA! Arkansas was fined $250,000 and they did not tear down the goalpost.

The difference in the amount of the fines was that it was a first offense for Vandy ($100K fine) versus second offense for Arkansas ($250K fine) according to SEC rules. Each subsequent offense results in a $500K fine.