Among the gamut of emotions, the feeling of being stuck is somewhere near the bottom. It’s obviously not as bad as grief and agony (though they can be connected), but when all you desperately want to do is just move – somewhere, anywhere – and being unable to do that, it can send you down a spiral. It’s the feeling of being willing to drive a zip code out of the way to avoid a traffic jam even if sitting in traffic will still get you to your destination sooner.
Being an Arkansas fan lately has many fans seemingly feeling tied to a program that’s similarly stuck, and that’s a really tough place to be as a fan.