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Ask the Commodores a Question | Aug. 17 Ask A Dore In the second edition of Ask A Dore during preseason camp, linebacker Tristan Strong, defensive back Eddie Foster and offensive lineman Kyle Fischer answered questions that were submitted by fans. Watch to see if the Commodores' answered your question. To submit questions for future Ask A Dore videos, click here.  Tweet your Commodore fan experience to @VandyFootball and use #commodoresconnect. Comment on our official  Facebook fan page.
Ask the Commodores a Question In the first edition of Ask A Dore during preseason football camp, defensive tackle Colt Nichter, place kicker Ryan Fowler and receiver Jonathan Krause answered questions that were submitted by fans. Watch the video to see if the Commodores' answered your question. Also, be sure to submit questions here for the next edition of Ask A Dore. Tweet your Commodore fan experience to @VandyFootball and use #commodoresconnect. Comment on our official Facebook fan page.
Have a question for the Commodores? VUCommodores is now accepting questions for members of Vanderbilt's football team during preseason camp. Submit your questions today, and members of the team will answer them on video. Please specify which player the question is directed to. Submit questions here. Tweet your Commodore fan experience to @VandyFootball and use #commodoresconnect. Comment on our official Facebook fan page.
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Just saw James Franklin's schedule for Tuesday. Note for fans is that he's eating lunch at Corner Pub Midtown at noon, and he is inviting fans to stop over and say hello to him at that time. Great chance to meet the head coach of the Commodores and get an autograph or picture.
The first person to locate Mr. C and tell him those two words was Kris Hahn, who located Mr. C in the Medical Center Plaza. For getting to Mr. C first, Kris received a signed mini-helmet from Head Coach James Franklin. VUCommodores.com notified fans of the contest by reaching out to them via social media through its Facebook page and @VandyFootball Twitter accounts. A photo of Mr. C in the Medical Center Plaza and the password for the day were posted on both platforms upon arrival. Fans can expect additional Find Mr. C contests in the coming weeks.
 Last spring, fans submitted ideas to name the Commodores' naval horn, which has resided atop the press box of Vanderbilt Stadium since 1993. The horn sounds when the football team takes the field and after every Commodore score. We received 84 creative suggestions and narrowed the list down to three: The Admiral, The WestEnder, and Old Natchez. Vote for your favorite name online or at Dore Jam August 7. Tweet your Commodore fan experience to @VandyFootball and use #commodoresconnect. Comment on our official Facebook fan page.
 Vanderbilt fans, would you like to see the newly-renovated Commodore football locker room? If so, please tell us in 25 words or less on our facebook fan page why you should be selected. We will then pick the winners on Wednesday afternoon for the tour, which will take place on Thursday, July 28 at 5:30 p.m. Good luck! Tweet your Commodore fan experience to @VandyFootball and use #commodoresconnect. Comment on our official Facebook fan page.
With summer training camp just around the corner for Vanderbilt's football team, Commodore fans are getting a chance to take part in the action through the Commodore Summer Countdown Contest. For the week of July 25th - 29th (next Monday through Friday), every Vanderbilt fan who purchases a football season ticket will be entered into a drawing for an ultimate fan experience. Each fan who purchases a season ticket before 5pm on Friday the 29th will have the opportunity to win:
Season tickets start as low as $138 and include tickets to all seven Commodore home games including Ole Miss, Georgia, Arkansas and Kentucky. Order your tickets now online or by calling the Vanderbilt Ticket Office at 615-322-GOLD (4653). All season ticket purchases received by close of business on Friday, July 29th will be included in the drawing.
Members of Vanderbilt's athletic staff have been on location at the Vanderbilt Medical Center and at Vanderbilt Health 100 Oaks throughout the week distributing posters, schedule cards, ticket order forms and additional information. Also being distributed are posters, Vanderbilt wallets and sunglasses. Fans may also enter to win autographed memorabilia and speak directly with a ticket representative.
Football head coach James Franklin spent an hour answering questions Wednesday in his first live chat on VUcommodores.com. While we couldn't get to every one of them, we'd like to thank fans for their tremendous interest in the event. We received more than 200 questions. Franklin made special note of Wes Gunter's question and awarded him a prize in a video message. Wes asked, "Glad to have you on board coach! You have done great things thus far and for that we (as fans) are very grateful! My question: With the depth that you currently have for the 2011 season, how do you address fatigue during a game/season? As all of us fans know, we are generally a solid 2-3 quarter team, but fall apart as the game progresses. Can this be addressed with conditioning or do we just need more capable bodies to rotate in and out?" Coach responded, "That is a great question. You are correct from studying previous games and previous seasons and what we went through this spring. The answer is a combination of both. We need to be in great shape physically and mentally and we have to be smart about how we practice. We have to make it to the games as sharp as we can. It is probably our biggest challenge. We also have to be willing to play young players so that we can stay fresh." If you missed the chat, you can read an archive of the transcript by clicking here. Tweet your Commodore fan experience to @VandyFootball and use #commodoresconnect. Comment on our official Facebook fan page.
 To unveil the 2011 Vanderbilt Football Fact Book, we held a contest on Twitter to see who could name the nine featured student-athletes on the cover.After several submissions, @DrJoeThompson was the first fan to correctly identified the group. The answer? Kyle Fischer, T.J. Greenstone, Brandon Barden, Udom Umoh, Chris Marve, Larry Smith, Tim Fugger, Sean Richardson and Casey Hayward. For his correct answer, @DrJoeThompson will receive the 2008 Official Gameday Souvenir Program and Media Guide from the Music City Bowl. Thanks to everyone for participating. We'll be doing more contests leading up to the season, so make sure you follow @VandyFootball on Twitter. Tweet your Commodore fan experience to @VandyFootball and use #commodoresconnect. Comment on our official Facebook fan page.
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