What does “hope” look like for this Vandy team, and importantly we fans? With such terrible losses already this season, what’s our actual metric here? I obviously forgot to save my syllabus before the season started, but I also figure it’s changed somewhat. I’m assuming that win-loss plays only a partial role now.

Answers from AoG:

Tom Stephenson: At this point, the most likely outcome is 2-10. Beat UConn, and then Vanderbilt is probably a heavy underdog in the seven games after that. So what does “hope” look like? It looks like those losses being competitive ones instead of blowouts.