Several years ago, at the invite of Charles Cella, your trusty scribe served on a scholarship committee at Vanderbilt.
The Fred Russell-Grantland Rice scholarship was for those interested in sports reporting, although to be transparent Vandy doesn't offer a journalism degree despite Dan Wolken, USA Today, and Skip Bayless, FS1, coming from that school.
The scholarship is named after two of the greatest sports writers ever, and it made a dent in the $70,140 cost for one year.
Being on that committee provided insight into the academic giant of the SEC. Nothing is easy there.