Fair weather fans disappear into the bushes like Homer Simpson when **** goes bad.
Bandwagon fans jump on the flavor of the month.
Real fans that dont lie to themselves stick around to **** and complain when **** goes bad.
thank you
You mean like stop going to games, cancel their season tickets, stop contributing, stop supporting the program and players, disappearing like that?
OH, but because they come on a message board to scream profanities and scream about firing people, that means they are still "gutting it out" right? That's what a REAL fan does? Why is it that when we win a game, you have the same cast of characters around. But when we LOSE a game, there are probably TWICE as many people on these boards. And this is NOT new, this goes back to the earliest days of UM boards in the mid to late 90s.
Im sorry, but b*tching about coaches and screaming profanities on a message board doesn't make you a fan. I sat through days at the OB watching us get our sh*t pushed in. I remember going to the Pitt game in 97, AT Pitt, when we lost. I remember the feeling of despondency when Clement just took a knee on the sideline and we just knew we were going to lose to a team we had dominated for years. The Pitt fans laughing and mocking us. Ive been there through the good and the bad in more than 30 years following this team. I don't have to like Golden, and I screamed to the high heavens that it was time to fire both Coker AND Shannon. But I never stopped going to games, never stopped rooting for our team, and never booed our players or spouted off about recruits being stupid to come to UM, etc...
Im not sure where some of you younger cats get the notion of what being a "fan" is, but its not any sort of definition I recognize. And that doesn't mean you have to just swallow failure and mediocrity, but you support your team. You support the kids to sweat and bleed for the team week in and week out on the field. For all those arrogant pricks in Gainesville, or Columbus, or Ann Arbor, or Lincoln, or South Bend that have always laughed at us and trashed us, looked down on scUM, and our worthless trashy "front runner" fans. Its sh8t like THAT that makes the rest of us look bad.
IDGAF about Golden, and if he fails, I **** well hope and expect him to be fired. But Im not going to turn my back on the team because I don't like the HC, or they aren't winning. That, TO ME, is the very ESSENCE of a "fair weather fan".
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