Fans are invested into this the same way players and coaches are invested into this. The problem isn't that we suck for two decades, of course, on the surface area it may be that way, but the far bigger problem is something else:
It's how we suck. How Golden didn't throw out his DC despite it being obvious that he sucks. How Manny Diaz refused to give in on a defense that made HS coaches chuckle and question his senses. And now, how Mario, after seeing glimpses of modern football in 2020 and 2021, goes back to reverting Miami into its irrelevant state.
It's embarrassing and unnecessary. If we were a talented team or if we simply were too small of a school and the gap to the front would be too big, I'd be sure fans wouldn't be too upset. They'd be proud of the underdog role. But the blueprint to a winning football team is out there. It exists. And not only have we ignored it for two decades, we then decide to find out that it works for us, only to revert back into what didn't work. Its like watching a grown man trying to fit a circle into a square. At some point, you just refuse to be patient.
People love this program too much, but everyone realizes, if Mario fails, this entire thing fails and the final shot of getting it done may have been served. People are really impatient, people expect results and not only are the results not there, we're not failing because we aren't good enough, we are failing, because the HC is stubborn in his approach and doesn't get it.
I can basically sum it up to: Lose to GT in a normal way and people are upset. Lose to GT by not kneeling the ball and fumbling and it gets 25x worse. 9/10 times, we are beating ourselves. It's like having the best ingredients in the world, the best A5 Wagyu, and then you overcook the meat, you overseason the salad and the beer you drink is warm. It's so unspeakably annoying.
I personally felt that Mario would get out of his way and learn from the things that didn't work at Oregon. But he didn't. Its the same **** all over again. He doesn't want to WIN, he wants to win HIS WAY. And that's why he will fail here.