Look, here’s the thing: Gerry Dinardo was Franklin before Franklin, Mason before Mason. He was the offensive coordinator of the defending national champions when we hired him, and in his first season he took a team that was decimated by the Watson Brown era to a record of 5-6. He avenged the embarrassing SMU loss in their return to football, he knocked off a ranked Georgia team, he beat Ole Miss and Army on the road, and that 1991 debut won him SEC Coach of the Year, the last Vanderbilt coach to win that award in football. This was the pre-division era, so we were 7th of 10 teams, with 5 ranked opponents on the schedule (including Syracuse OOC - this was an era when the SEC had just gone back to 7 conference games, and ours were Cuse, SMU, Duke and Army.
WTF Vandy? Miserable Losses, Round 2: (1) 65-0 vs. Tennessee vs. (5) 37-7 vs. Temple
