'Dores End RE GU lar Season at WFU VANDERBILT SEA S ON AT A GLANCE ...(6-5, 4-4) Date OPP onent Notes 8/28 @ Miami of Ohio, ESPNU (W, 34-13) Commodores rush for 269 yards in road win 9/4 So. Carolina, ESPN (W, 24-17) Second straight win over ranked Gamecocks 6-5, 4-4 6-5, 4-4 9/13 Rice (W, 38-21) Vanderbilt scores 24 unanswered points in win KIC K OFF INFORMATION 9/20 @ Ole Miss, PPV (W, 23-17) Defense forces six turnovers in key road victory 10/4 Auburn, ESPN (W, 14-13) 'Dores overcome 13-0 deficit before sellout crowd DATE: Saturday, November 29, 2008 10/11 @ Miss. State, PPV (L, 14-17) 'Dores commit 2 turnovers, lack offense in first loss KICKOFF: 6:00 p.m., CST 10/18 @ Georgia, Raycom (L, 14-24) 'Dores fall behind early, lose at Georgia 24-14 STADIUM: BB&T Field LOCATION: Winston-Salem, N.C. 10/25 Duke (L, 7-10) Offense, special teams struggle in home loss RADIO: Vanderbilt Radio Network; 11/8 Florida, ESPN2 (L, 14-42) Gators overpower Commodores in Nashville Flagship Station – 104.5 "The Zone" 11/15 @ Kentucky, ESPN2 (W, 31-24) Vanderbilt becomes bowl eligible with road win COMMODORE RADIO CREW: 11/22 Tennessee, Raycom (L, 10-20) 'Dores fall behind, can't overcome 20-0 deficit Joe Fisher, play-by-play; John Gromos, color analyst; 11/29 @ Wake Forest, ESPNU 6-5 Deacons drop 24-21 late decision vs. Boston College Kevin Ingram, sidelines reporter TELEVISION: ESPNU (national)/Dish Network ESPNU CREW: Clay Matvic, play-by-play; David Diaz-Infante, color analyst; VANDERBILT Melissa Knowles, sidelines reporter SIRIUS RADIO: 215 XM RADIO: 199 COMMODORE S ON THE ROAD GAME NOTES Vanderbilt, 3-3 at home this season, looks for its fourth victory on the road when the Commodores travel to face Wake Forest. More on page 9 Commodore Storylines SEC BO W L TIE-IN S ★ Vanderbilt All-Time Against Wake Forest ★ The 2008 Commodores – better results and Atlantic Coast Conference Teams. playing under the lights. Bowl Date, Kickoff Location - Commodores Looking for SEC Win No. 5...Page 2 - Vanderbilt is 6-1 in Night Appearances...Page 6 Independence Dec. 28, 7 pm Shreveport Papajohns.com Dec. 29, 2 pm Birmingham ★ Commodores looking for victory No. 5 this ★ Commodore defense forcing quarterback Chick-fil-A Dec. 31, 6:30 pm Atlanta year on ESPN television programming. sacks and interceptions. Gaylord Music City Dec. 31, 2:30 pm Nashville - 3rd Vanderbilt Appearance on ESPNU...Page 3 - Sack, Interception Totals Rise...Pages 5, 13 Outback Jan. 1, 10 am Tampa ★ Several statistical similiarities between Capital One Jan. 1, 12 noon Orlando ★ Moore, Langford, Hahnfeldt among Vanderbilt active career statistical leaders. Commodores and Demon Deacons. Cotton Jan. 2, 1 pm Dallas - Active Commodore Career Leaders...Page 5 - Records Just One Similarity...Page 8 AutoZone Liberty Jan. 2, 4 pm Memphis ATHLETIC COMMUNICATION S QUIC K FACT S ON VANDERBILT & WA K E FORE S T LARRY LEATHERS - Primary Football Contact VANDERBILT WAKE FOREST (615) 343-6437 office; (615) 480-8226 cell Location Nashville, Tenn. Winston-Salem, N.C. [email protected] Founded 1873 1834 ROD WILLIAMSON – Dir., External Relations Enrollment 6,402 4,412 CHRIS WEINMAN – FB Asst./Women’s BB Conference Southeastern Atlantic Coast ANDY BOGGS – Men’s Basketball/Golf Nickname Commodores Demon Deacons THOMAS SAMUEL – Baseball/Women's Soccer Colors Black & Gold Old Gold & Black BRANDON BARCA – Website Coordinator Home Field Vanderbilt Stadium BB&F Field RYAN SCHULZ – Editor, Commodore Nation Capacity 39,773 31,500 Travis Young – Intern, Tennis Josh Arntz – Intern, website/Cross Country Field Surface natural grass FieldTurf PHONE: (615) 322-4121 Head Coach Bobby Johnson (7th) Jim Grobe (8th) FAX: (615) 343-7064 Coaching Record 86-91 (.486) 86-77-1 (.528) PRESS BOX PHONE: (615) 320-0436 Website vucommodores.com wakeforestsports.com 2008 VANDERBILT FOOTBALL Stadi UM IMP rove M ents H Seekin G Sevent H Win VANDERBILT STADIUM GET S FRE S H LOO K ; COMMODORE S SEE K IN G SE V ENTH WIN PHA S E I CON S TRUCTION WOR K COM P LETE When Vanderbilt travels to Winston-Salem, the Commodores will be Commodore fans attending home games this season enjoyed the attempting to reach seven wins in a season for just the fourth time in first enhancements to Vanderbilt Stadium in more than a decade. the last 50 years. Construction crews completed Phase 1 work on Vanderbilt The Commodores last captured seven regular season wins in 1982, Stadium in late August. The result is a clean, refurbished look for the going 8-3 en route to the Hall of Fame Bowl in Birmingham, Ala. Other stadium, built in 1981. seven-win Commodore regular seasons in the last half century came The completed construction is the first of five phases outlined in in 1975 (7-4) and 1974 (7-3-1). a $60 million athletic facility enhancement plan. The project was The eight-win regular season in 1982 is a program standard since the announced last winter by Vanderbilt Vice Chancellor of Student 1940s. Prior to World War II, the Commodores were one of the nation's Athletics David Williams II. winningest programs, enjoying 22 seasons of at least seven wins. Among the football stadium improvements completed in the Phase I work are: PRE P TEAMMATE S SQ UARE OFF SATURDAY • New brick exterior renovation to south end of stadium facing McGugin Athletic Center and Jess Neely Drive. The Several Vanderbilt players will face high school teammates when the work extends the brick facade included at the adjacent Commodores host Wake Forest. Hawkins Baseball Field. • Bryant Hahnfeldt (Sr., PK) and Matt Bubis (R-Jr., FB/TE) played • Painting of stadium exterior. at Montgomery Bell Academy, the same Nashville school that produced • Addition of Bookstore and Commodore Grill on convourse. Demon Deacon Joe Birdsong (R-Jr., OT). • New eastside concourse artwork featuring Vanderbilt • Darlron Spead (R-Jr., CB) played in the same secondary at Athletics "It's Good To Be Gold" theme. The artwork Camden County (Ga.) H.S., as did Wake Forest's Kevin Patterson includes action images of several recent Vanderbilt (R-Sr., safety). In 2003, they helped school to AAAAA state title. standouts, such as football players Jay Cutler, Earl Bennett • Austin Monahan (So., TE) played at Charlotte (N.C.) Country Day and Chris Williams, golfer Brandt Snedeker, hoopsters Shan with WFU's Andrew Conroy (Sr., LB). Foster and Chantelle Anderson, and baseball players Pedro • Kyle Fischer (R-Fr. OG/OT) and WFU's Anthony Davis (R-Sr., DE) Alvarez and David Price. both attended Spring Valley H.S. in Columbia, S.C. • New exterior signage and installation of large "Star V" • Michael Garcia (R-So., LB) and Ryan van Rensburg (R-Fr., TB) logos on the press box structure. played at The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Fla. with Riley Skinner Bobby Johnson's football team also benefited from the addition of (R-Jr., QB), John Russell (R-Jr., DT), Cannon Gaskin (R-So., OT), FieldTurf artificial surface at its practice facility this summer. Chance Raines (Fr., OL) and Scott Betros (Fr. LB) Phase I construction also is aimed at enhancing both Memorial Gym • John Stokes (So., LB/SN) played at Memphis University School and Hawkins Field. New men's and women's player locker rooms, with WFU's Russell Nenon (R-So., OC) and post-game press conference facilities are under construction at • T.J. Greenstone (R-Fr., DT) and WFU's Barrett McMillin (R-So., Memorial Gym, along with the installment of a new wooden gym floor. OG) played at Collins Hill H.S. in Lawrenceville, Ga. At Hawkins Field, work is under way to expand capacity with the addition of seating areas in left field and right field. The facility project is expected to continue for several years. Phase JOHN S ON FIFTH ON ALL -TIME WIN S LI S T II, expected to get under way after the football season, calls for total Bobby Johnson moved into sole position of fifth place for wins as a renovation of both stadium gates facing Jess Neely Drive, and the Vanderbilt head coach two weeks ago with the win at Kentucky. continuation of the brick exterior facade down Natchez Trace. Work on Johnson, in his seventh year as head coach, notched his 26th the long-anticipated Vanderbilt Athletics Hall of Fame also is expected to victory, passing former mentor George MacIntyre in the category. start after the season. Dan McGugin, a legendary Commodore football figure in the early 1900s, holds the record for wins by a head coach with 197. He ranks FOUR SEC WIN S FOR COMMODORE S among the nation's all-time Top 25 winningest coaches. Three of the four coaches ahead of Johnson – McGugin, Sanders With the finale remaining, the 'Dores finished the season 4-4 in SEC and Ray Morrison – are members of the College Football Hall of Fame. play, representing the most league wins by Vanderbilt in 26 years. Vanderbilt missed a chance against Tennessee to match its all-time All-time Wins by Vanderbilt Head Coaches high of five SEC wins, reached only once previously (5-1 in 1935) The Coach Years Wins Commodores are charter members of the SEC, founded in 1933. 1. Dan McGugin 1904-17/1919-34 197 It's been a difficult task for Vanderbilt to reach the four-win plateau 2. Art Guepe 1953-62 39 in SEC play. This is just the Commodores' seventh season of at least 3.