The team that was expected to show up in Nashville on August 31st certainly was not the one that we saw practicing through the Spring and Summer months. That’s not being said in a good way, either.
The team that showed up at Vanderbilt’s rather modest home stadium, with a healthy turnout of visiting Hokies, was a team that we had seen a bit too much of over 2022 and early 2023. It was lost, confused, slow, and totally unprepared for something that was completely predictable. What’s more, ugh.. well that’s for the remainder of this article. Let’s get started in some sort of rational order.