March 5, 2011 · 7:42 AM

Walk on.

Sure, it may be Vanderbilt, but this clip is fun to watch.

In fact, it’s fun to watch because it’s Vandy.  Some of those kids may actually have a chance to fulfill a dream.

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24 responses to “Walk on.”

  1. TennesseeDawg
    March 5, 2011 at 7:45 AM

    Houston Nutt just swooped in and offered them all a chance at greyshirting if they transferred.

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  2. Scorpio Jones, III
    March 5, 2011 at 8:04 AM

    Damn.

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  3. Spike
    March 5, 2011 at 8:30 AM

    Cowabunga Rudy, dude!!!!!!

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  4. Matt
    March 5, 2011 at 8:45 AM

    Awesome. Can’t help but root for them. Please post the follow-up when that’s available…

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  5. Joe
    March 5, 2011 at 9:42 AM

    Heck why doesn’t Vandy keep them all? Can’t be much worse, I mean they don’t even have an Athletic Dept.

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  6. baltimore dawg
    March 5, 2011 at 9:52 AM

    it’s all fun and games until one of these guys actually makes it onto the field of play and gets torn in half.

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  7. Normaltown Mike
    March 5, 2011 at 10:02 AM

    Walk ons?

    Uh oh, the gullible co-eds at Vandy are gonna be hearing a lot of BS come fall.

    “Oh yeah, I’m on the team, I just don’t travel….”

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  8. FourOFour
    March 5, 2011 at 10:07 AM

    That was great!  That’s the core spirt of college sports. Football (and other sports) scholarships should be reduced more forcing more true amiture Student/ Athlete recruitment like that video. The part about the Head Coach going to the fraternities to recruit was great, how it should be in my opinion. ESPN and the Pro type fans would hate it, too bad. 

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  9. 69Dawg
    March 5, 2011 at 11:20 AM

    I watched it and the coach that went wild over one of the guys 40 time was a hoot. Texas A&M used to have the 12th man, a walk-on, that was always on the Kick-off team. Heck apparently Vandy can’t even fill out its roster limit so the coach had to go after them.

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  10. Chuck
    March 5, 2011 at 11:30 AM

    So all of them are at Vandy because of their academic abilities? No need to dumb down the play book. I may become a closet Vandy fan.

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  11. Bulldog Joe
    March 5, 2011 at 1:23 PM

    That reminds me it wasn’t that long ago that Coach Pete Herrmann went over to the Ramsey Center scouting the intramurals for basketball players. They somehow managed to win eight games that season with walk ons Alex Evans, Sam Greavu, Blake Davenport, Tommy Wainscott, Joey Waldrop, Buzz Wehunt, Julian Williams, Matt Womack, Kevin Brophy, and Jay McAuley on the roster.

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  12. Coondawg
    March 5, 2011 at 4:11 PM

    Tech has a booth at Nerdfest every year with a sign up sheet for tryouts. The sign up sheet is between the “Kiss a woman for free” banner and the Dungeons and Dragons Pillow Fight, Tickle Pile Sleep over at the Nerd Lair sweepstakes table.

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  13. HVL Dawg
    March 5, 2011 at 6:23 PM

    Pretty nice video production. Kudos to Vandy’s SID.

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  14. Dog in Fla
    March 6, 2011 at 3:08 PM

    Far be it from me to ever misoverestimate myself, but I think that I may be faster than the guy at 3:35.

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  15. thom
    March 6, 2011 at 6:49 PM

    Really enjoyed the video but what in the HELL is Vandy doing still in the SEC?

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  16. Smith is here
    March 6, 2011 at 7:59 PM

    the Peter Frampton dude looks like he has some real potential…”show me the way” coach

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    • JasonC
      March 6, 2011 at 8:09 PM

      When I first saw this post, the videoplayer had a still shot of that guy, but there was a big embossed play button covering most of his face. At first, I thought it was going to be a story about some girls trying to play kicker or WR for Vandy.

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  17. Andy
    March 6, 2011 at 10:53 PM

    I actually enjoyed that video. Can you post the next one when they show who made the cut? It will be interesting to see the caliber of walk-on a team like Vandy takes.

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