Many emotions followed Vanderbilt’s embarrassing 23-3 loss to our neighbors at Eastern Tennessee State University. These feelings ranged anywhere on the spectrum from downright anger to utter humiliation, but following the emotional comedown I’d venture to say that most fans settled somewhere in the “helpless” or “calling my therapist” category.
Losing is obviously no new concept to Vanderbilt football fans. In fact, it’s very much a familiar one, since the team has posted just an 84-156 record over the past twenty seasons. Of these 156 days where we were fooled yet again to spend 3-4 hours potentially witnessing the 35% chance that Vanderbilt decides to win, some of these Ls do hurt a bit more: the non conference losses.