School Spirit

There is a lot of school spirit at Vandy; it's just focused on teams that are winning. So, the teams that succeed tend to draw big crowds, while the teams that lose a lot don't always play in front of a packed house. Students and the Nashville community have a tremendous amount of spirit for teams like the baseball and basketball teams and will often pack Memorial Gymnasium or Hawkins Field. For the most part, people on campus are jaded about the football team. If we're playing a really good school, a lot of people will use the excuse that they think we're going to get killed. If we play a really bad school, people say that they don't want to see us win by 40. Maybe Vandy students just don't like football.