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FireFoley

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78 said:
Gauging by the few responses here, I’d say we have a fan apathy problem. How long before it becomes a player apathy problem?

I haven’t seen it this lackluster since before Donovan was hired. Actually, before Kruger was hired.
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Fan apathy is a possibility and I have no view either way, but do you feel it is the team's or sports responsibility to energize the fan base or is it the fan's responsibility to pull up the team or the sport? Depending on one's definition of entertaining, perhaps that would bring out more people? I have said for a zillion years that for a fan base who likes to think we are at the top of the totem pole in major sports, we are the most transient fan base of them all. When our team's suck balls, you are correct we can go full apathy and just complain and moan but yet do not "really" demand or make sure that something is done. Perhaps we know we are monetarily constrained and we just sit back and moan. At UF, if it is not football, the sport has to win at the absolute highest level to even draw a modicum of interest. I am not speaking of just this year's basketball team. I have been around a long time and seen above average to good teams in sports and still can't draw flies. I am of the belief that the team's have to warrant our support b/c the fan base will never be strong or united enough to get those in charge to make the decisions as quickly as they need to be made.
 
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78 said:
I’d say we have a fan apathy problem.
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We are starving for decent basketball, while White makes us all fanorexic. White is a disease-leach sucking the lifeblood out of UF's program.
 
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FireFoley said:
Fan apathy is a possibility and I have no view either way, but do you feel it is the team's or sports responsibility to energize the fan base or is it the fan's responsibility to pull up the team or the sport? Depending on one's definition of entertaining, perhaps that would bring out more people? I have said for a zillion years that for a fan base who likes to think we are at the top of the totem pole in major sports, we are the most transient fan base of them all. When our team's suck balls, you are correct we can go full apathy and just complain and moan but yet do not "really" demand or make sure that something is done. Perhaps we know we are monetarily constrained and we just sit back and moan. At UF, if it is not football, the sport has to win at the absolute highest level to even draw a modicum of interest. I am not speaking of just this year's basketball team. I have been around a long time and seen above average to good teams in sports and still can't draw flies. I am of the belief that the team's have to warrant our support b/c the fan base will never be strong or united enough to get those in charge to make the decisions as quickly as they need to be made.
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I used the word “problem” to connote an issue with the program, not the fans feeling the apathy. Yes, there are going to be loyal fans regardless of what’s going on, but it’s a market. When the seller can’t interest buyers, it needs to look within.
 
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rogdochar said:
We got thrashed by an 11-11 team.
We looked and played like Mike White was a loaner coach we checked out of the library?
6'10" Payne had too few minutes.
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Don't worry, he'll be transferring soon. Just like last year's team, I expect mass exodus after the season. Unfortunately, MW won't be one of the many leaving.
 
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maheo30 said:
Am I wrong in thinking this team plays better up tempo, but Nembhard can't run that style?
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About half the team plays best up tempo, in theory, and the rest do not. Nembhard isn’t the only slow ball player. Blackshear, Locke, and Jitobah are too.

The rest should be good at uptempo but haven’t gelled. Glover is an uptempo player but he is too erratic. Mann seems like an uptempo guy, but his head is a wreck. Johnson, Payne, and Lewis are definitely uptempo talents but the latter two of them are very raw and seemingly hobbled by White.

So I think the issue isn’t just Nembhard grinding the gears. It’s more like a vehicle built from parts stolen from a combination of Ferrari’s, Land Rovers, and a VW bug. And it’s being driven by an 8-year old that only knows how to operate the brake peddle once the jalopy starts picking up speed on the downhill.
 
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So Mike White has the mythical "Delete" button on Gatorchatter....we are all doomed
 
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