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Better Know An Opponent: The Bye Week

“People of experience maintain that it is very sensible to start from a principle. I grant them that and start from the principle that all men are boring.”

-Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

Being a Vanderbilt football fan is a bit like enduring a tepid marriage. Last week at this time, most of us would have preferred the bye and/or had just picked up our pitchforks from the itinerant blade grinder, but then Ke’Shawn returned, Joejuan put the shut down in shut down cornerback, Shurms McKenzie remembered Pinkney is good at playing football, and we got to celebrate our first SEC win of the season (yes, Arkansas is bad, but shut up).