Monday, December 19, 2011
BU has GREAT fans and needs more!
I just don't get it ....
I'd love for BU to be undefeated but I can handle the current situation -- we're getting better and learning the new system.
BUT -- TEN games into the Geno Ford era at Bradley and there's already some calling themselves fans who are angry and starting arguments over non-existent issues!
It's hardly a secret that most are the very ones who have been so chronically miserable and were so incredibly critical the past few years - ripping on Jim Les & the past couple years' Braves and demanding JL's firing and replacement!
These are the very people who ought to be MOST happy to have what we now have, because they kinda got their way...and yet some are still miserable!
And I can see from their posts that they admit to being miserable and are proud of stirring up arguments!
First - they're trying to find every current flaw and loudly proclaim it as JL's fault still nine months after Coach Les is gone.
Then they start arguments in every discussion about the current team!
What gives???
Everyone pretty much agreed BU was picked last and yet we've won just about every game we'd have been expected to win given that positioning...
PLUS -- we don't have ANY of the horribly embarrassing losses and home humiliations that a few other Valley teams have like...
-ISU losing at home and scoring only 54 against UNC-Wilmington and 47 at Fresno
-Evansville losing to UIC & Tennessee Tech and only one decent home win
-SIU losing at home to Ohio (who the heck are they) Dominican and scoring only 43 at WMU
-Drake getting humiliated by 44 points against Boise State and by 14 to Iowa who Creighton demolished
-Even Indiana State barely staved off tiny Maryville at home last week...trailing in the 2nd half and needed to rally to take the lead late...
So guys -- give it a rest -- you are embarrassing your university -- and making incredible fools of yourself in the process.
Get on board and support your team - come to the games, that's the least "fans" should do...
The most vocal critics the past year or two are nowhere to be seen at many games - preferring to "boycott" (their exact words) rather than be supportive of the current Braves.
Don't start going Salukifan on us and turning viciously against your own players & team and other fans....looking for everything and anything to rip on...
Do the search on the message boards and find that some have even gone so far to say that Walt reminds them of TCS!!! What the hey are they looking at??
Even in a loss - I feel every fan still needs to be supportive of the team. It's ok to talk about the games' specifics and the fouls, the missed shots, the turnovers...but it crosses the line when insulting direct shots are taken -- especially the intentional shots made just to start arguments.
I expected some of this and cited it would be part of the fallout -- but seeing this much so early is astounding....
(most all of it has already been removed and axed from the best message boards so you won't find it now, thankfully - and some have banned over their constant arguments).
I knew the fallout would include a drop off in fan interest and attendance and we're seeing it...and guess what --
we're going to keep seeing it for some time to come... winning will correct that.
BUT -- nobody's been more precise and more accurate in predicting all of this.... than I have been - predicting the attendance dropoff, loss of fan interest, departure of players and recruits, the selfish and egotistical "boycott" some false-fans staged for the game at Renaissance Coliseum, the bickering by some who want to find a scapegoat and attack players, coaches and other fans, and significant dropoff in ability to put points on the board given the full turnover in coaching staff...
BUT -- I am still on board and 100% supportive and cheering for our Braves...even hitting the road and catching the games away from Carver!!
Those who support the team with more than just their words - with their time and attendance even at games away from Carver and with their financial support - those are, by far, the very best BU fans and I admire them!
Thankfully the best part of BU's fan base are also still on board and fully supporting their team. But it's disturbing to see those who must want to get included in Time's Man of the Year as a "protester" by protesting and trashing BU and its fan base the way the "Occupy protesters" have trashed the parks they're squatting in with their excrement.
BUT -- I really expected a few of those who called themselves fans and wanted JL out would at least give Coach Ford a dozen games or more before losing it and acting like crying babies whose lollipop has been yanked away.
Take a look in the mirror - here's what you see-
Too much of this
When we should be seeing more of this-
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