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When asked how the criticism from the fans weighs into his decision, he responded:
“I won’t say that I read every email to the full extent, but I read every email and I’ll skim over parts of them, but I open up every email that I get and I listen to every voicemail that I get. Realistically you can’t respond to every single one and I know that’s a disappointment for some because they’ll send another email back to me looking for a response on something and given all of the demands of the job, I would probably sit there and just respond to email and voicemail all day if I tried to respond to everyone.
“It’s good for me to have a forum like this just to let you know that yes I hear all of them. I read through all of them. At the end of day we have a very passionate group. I’ve said all along, while we might not have the size of the schools we’re compared to in terms of numbers and our fan base, I put our energy and passion up against anyone. That’s why dating back to the Orange Bowl or even as a recent as this year like the Florida State game, when you get our fan base going in an energetic environment, there isn’t any better group or more passionate group out there.
“So when you don’t have success, they’re obviously going to be upset and they’re going to voice that frustration and I get that. The thing I’d say is no one wants to see us win any more than I do and Al and I know that. We have to get better. They want us to get better. They’re not happy with 6-6, I’m not happy with 6-6. With that said everybody’s got different ideas as to how you fix it. I’m leaving it up to Al because I believe he will get it fixed and that’s the person I’ll work with and continue to get it better. That doesn’t change.
“People are going to be upset anytime you lose. You see that when you’re losing one or two games a year, there’re a lot of criticism. So when you lose six of them, it’s six times as much criticism that comes and that’s part of the world we live in and the game we play. It’s good to have that and if you didn’t have that, that would be a bigger concern because that means something is missing, a passion in your fan base, and I know that ours is there and ours has very high expectations and I would say that I have those same high expectations. I promise everyone that I’m going to continue to do whatever I can on my side to help get us back to the top.”
http://miami.247sports.com/Article/AD-Blake-James-Hears-the-Criticism-From-the-Fans-33686741
“I won’t say that I read every email to the full extent, but I read every email and I’ll skim over parts of them, but I open up every email that I get and I listen to every voicemail that I get. Realistically you can’t respond to every single one and I know that’s a disappointment for some because they’ll send another email back to me looking for a response on something and given all of the demands of the job, I would probably sit there and just respond to email and voicemail all day if I tried to respond to everyone.
“It’s good for me to have a forum like this just to let you know that yes I hear all of them. I read through all of them. At the end of day we have a very passionate group. I’ve said all along, while we might not have the size of the schools we’re compared to in terms of numbers and our fan base, I put our energy and passion up against anyone. That’s why dating back to the Orange Bowl or even as a recent as this year like the Florida State game, when you get our fan base going in an energetic environment, there isn’t any better group or more passionate group out there.
“So when you don’t have success, they’re obviously going to be upset and they’re going to voice that frustration and I get that. The thing I’d say is no one wants to see us win any more than I do and Al and I know that. We have to get better. They want us to get better. They’re not happy with 6-6, I’m not happy with 6-6. With that said everybody’s got different ideas as to how you fix it. I’m leaving it up to Al because I believe he will get it fixed and that’s the person I’ll work with and continue to get it better. That doesn’t change.
“People are going to be upset anytime you lose. You see that when you’re losing one or two games a year, there’re a lot of criticism. So when you lose six of them, it’s six times as much criticism that comes and that’s part of the world we live in and the game we play. It’s good to have that and if you didn’t have that, that would be a bigger concern because that means something is missing, a passion in your fan base, and I know that ours is there and ours has very high expectations and I would say that I have those same high expectations. I promise everyone that I’m going to continue to do whatever I can on my side to help get us back to the top.”
http://miami.247sports.com/Article/AD-Blake-James-Hears-the-Criticism-From-the-Fans-33686741
