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Cajuncane said:
" not one single person should be A LOUD to eat this week"....I guess if they do it quietly though they can go ahead and get their food...Those UiF educations...
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Wait… I thought that was the reason the football players were not responding to Mullen?! Is this the criteria they’re using for their weekly nutrition all star award?!
 
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No_Fly_Zone said:
Yeah, the "burn alive in a plane crash" comment was a bit much.
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Yeah. And I'm not caping for the Gaytors, I'm just pointing out that they are 18-10 and took 2 of 3 from Miami (a ranked team) on the road. Why their fans are calling for "burning alive in a plane crash", I'll never know.

But this is, in fact, the cycle with Gaytor fans. In the off-season, they will tell you how they had the greatest recruiting, the most amazing practices every seen, the best coaching, etc. Then the season starts, and if they don't win enough games, the fanbase calls for human sacrifice.

I'm not saying anyone should tolerate "below standards" performance, but to wish disturbing physical harm to a bunch of 18-22 year olds just goes too far.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Yeah. And I'm not caping for the Gaytors, I'm just pointing out that they are 18-10 and took 2 of 3 from Miami (a ranked team) on the road. Why their fans are calling for "burning alive in a plane crash", I'll never know.

But this is, in fact, the cycle with Gaytor fans. In the off-season, they will tell you how they had the greatest recruiting, the most amazing practices every seen, the best coaching, etc. Then the season starts, and if they don't win enough games, the fanbase calls for human sacrifice.

I'm not saying anyone should tolerate "below standards" performance, but to wish disturbing physical harm to a bunch of 18-22 year olds just goes too far.
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You are spot on and 100% correct. It is simultaneously an absurdly over-the-top and response, yet still (somehow) in the regular playbook of **** fanbase responses. It's just weird.

The only insight I can provide on the bolded part is that they are in my all-time top 3 worst fanbases in all of college football (right there with rioting, pedophilia apologists of Pedo State and the battery flinging, illiterate hill-folk of WVU). UM football fans get (rightly) **** on for a variety of reasons, but our worst fans are nowhere near the depths of depravity, misery, and self-delusion as the average UiF fan.
 
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No_Fly_Zone said:
You are spot on and 100% correct. It is simultaneously an absurdly over-the-top and response, yet still (somehow) in the regular playbook of **** fanbase responses. It's just weird.

The only insight I can provide on the bolded part is that they are in my all-time top 3 worst fanbases in all of college football (right there with rioting, pedophilia apologists of Pedo State and the battery flinging, illiterate hill-folk of WVU). UM football fans get (rightly) **** on for a variety of reasons, but our worst fans are nowhere near the depths of depravity, misery, and self-delusion as the average UiF fan.
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I would add one other dimension.

I started UM in the 1980s. Nobody would deny that Miami, as a city, was heavily transformed from the 1980s onward, from Mariel to wide-scale Caribbean/South American/Central American immigration, to Eastern European and Canadian ex-pats, to New Yorkers retiring to cheaper real estate. Lots of "newer" South Floridians adopted UM for a variety of reasons, and so a chunk of our fanbase might not have a natural inclination to be as kind-and-gentle with the Hurricane players who are fellow UM classmates or UM alums.

But the "state school" rivals just looooove to give us a hard time and claim that THEIR fanbases are much more concentrated with actual graduates of their institutions. Which, of course, begs the question as to why they seem to be LESS able to exhibit human decency towards their fellow classmates/alums, at least when compared to the "heathen" Miami fans...

Pathetic. I can't prove that every one of those Gaytor fans who are wishing "burning alive" on their baseball team are UiF alums...but I'd be willing to bet that some are. You just don't often see a bunch of NON-alums following a COLLEGE baseball team with that level of passion and/or hatred.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
I would add one other dimension.

I started UM in the 1980s. Nobody would deny that Miami, as a city, was heavily transformed from the 1980s onward, from Mariel to wide-scale Caribbean/South American/Central American immigration, to Eastern European and Canadian ex-pats, to New Yorkers retiring to cheaper real estate. Lots of "newer" South Floridians adopted UM for a variety of reasons, and so a chunk of our fanbase might not have a natural inclination to be as kind-and-gentle with the Hurricane players who are fellow UM classmates or UM alums.

But the "state school" rivals just looooove to give us a hard time and claim that THEIR fanbases are much more concentrated with actual graduates of their institutions. Which, of course, begs the question as to why they seem to be LESS able to exhibit human decency towards their fellow classmates/alums, at least when compared to the "heathen" Miami fans...

Pathetic. I can't prove that every one of those Gaytor fans who are wishing "burning alive" on their baseball team are UiF alums...but I'd be willing to bet that some are. You just don't often see a bunch of NON-alums following a COLLEGE baseball team with that level of passion and/or hatred.
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It is a fantastic point. UiF and Forfeit State fans really do enjoy looking down their noses at us and pointing out that so many UM fans didn't attend UM. They'll claim we are rude, aggressive, and straight up violent during tailgates and games -- much more so than they are -- because of the "unsophisticated" nature of our "thuggish" fanbase. I've even had some UiF fans and Forfeit State fans tell me people shouldn't be allowed to root for a college football team if you didn't attend that school (which, taken to its logical extreme means you can't be a college football fan unless you attend a college). I can't prove it, but I would bet a lot of that is just straight code language, elitism, and bigotry.

As you point out, it begs the question why, if they are the more educated and erudite fanbase, with a closer tie to their fellow alumni, they seem to exhibit more vitriol and hate. But they do seem to prove that you can absolutely be well-educated and yet remain totally classless.
 
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