To be fair, the reality that Coach Johnson has raised the level of our program is sometimes acknowledged with an update of the classic Vanderbilt stereotype: no more are we the "Commode-dores," now we're "the plucky underdogs who are usually doomed to utter failure but sometimes, occasionally, when the planets align just right, when there's a blue moon, when the cows are home, whilst the pigs are in the air, and an angel flies over the stadium humming 'Dynamite,' actually beat a football-factory 'university' from around the SEC."

Biddle and his ilk can keep recycling the columns they publish every time Vanderbilt does a coaching search, pontificating and moaning about how difficult it is to compete as a college athlete when you actually have to be a college student-athlete.

Meanwhile, new interim head coach Robbie Caldwell would do well to take a page from David Williams' book: just show them the Music City Bowl trophy—not to mention the newly renovated stadium (and the plans to continue renovating it) and the new, multi-million dollar football office renovations that Biddle so blithely dismisses—and challenge them the way Bobby did: to compete with the best football players in the country on Saturdays and the best students in the country on weekdays.

There'll be plenty of takers.