Strong jabs back as fans attack USF's offense

[KB]

We are 2-0.  We are in the top 25.  

The attendance this past weekend has nothing to do with play on the field.  The play on the field could be affected by the poor attendance.  

There has been plenty of time and off season buzz to get fans in the seats.  This fan base is pathetic.  What he said was the truth.  He was asked about fan backlash on social media and he took a jab back at the same fans.  There is nothing wrong with that.  

The crowd on Saturday was an embarrassment.  Good for him to have the guts to call us out on it.   For us to make excuses about a little rain and other games on TV and the PLAY IN THE GAME WE ARE TALKING ABOUT is weak.   If the stands were packed and people walked out mid game for poor play then an argument could be made, but no one there for the season opener is sad.  

Players feed off the fans.   Our players are starving and we are pointing the finger at everyone else but ourselves.  

 

Edited September 6, 2017 by KB

[dclenden]

3 minutes ago, KB said:

We are 2-0.  We are in the top 25.  

The attendance this past weekend has nothing to do with play on the field.  The play on the field could be affected by the poor attendance.  

There has been plenty of time and off season buzz to get fans in the seats.  This fan base is pathetic.  What he said was the truth.  He was asked about fan backlash on social media and he took a jab back at the same fans.  There is nothing wrong with that.  

The crowd on Saturday was an embarrassment.  Good for him to have the guts to call us out on it.   For us to make excuses about a little rain and other games on TV and the PLAY IN THE GAME WE ARE TALKING ABOUT is weak.   If the stands were packed and people walked out mid game for poor play then an argument could be made, but no one there for the season opener is sad.  

Players feed off the fans.   Our players are starving and we are pointing the finger at everyone else but ourselves.  

 

Truth: our fan base IS pathetic considering many alumn live locally.

Truth: adding 15,000 fans to the stands ain't got nothing to do with two blocked punts in two games and the poor on field performance.

Nice try making associations by things that frankly are unrelated.

We are not good.  Fan attendance is also not good.

Thats it kid, sorry.

(Ill now assume you'll rebut with how attendance numbers makes players feel and all the blah blah)...

Sad. So sad. All of the excuses.  It just is.  From Heisman hopeful to explain a near loss to Stoney on our home opener.  How far the mighty have fallen.

*queue the:  'I'm not ready to give up on CCS yet like you are'... and the 'poor player execution' and the 'yea, but, they didn't want to tip their hand on the playbook'.

 

[Bull Matrix]

OCS is the only way to fix attendence woes. 

[raptorcj]

19 minutes ago, KB said:

The crowd on Saturday was an embarrassment.  Good for him to have the guts to call us out on it.   For us to make excuses about a little rain and other games on TV and the PLAY IN THE GAME WE ARE TALKING ABOUT is weak.   If the stands were packed and people walked out mid game for poor play then an argument could be made, but no one there for the season opener is sad.  

Players feed off the fans.   Our players are starving and we are pointing the finger at everyone else but ourselves.  

Yeah our fan base can support better, it's a fair call-out. But whether it's 24k or 64k fans crying out for better, please please just do what you can to bring back our entertaining offense, coach. 

[Triple B]

46 minutes ago, dclenden said:

Nice try making associations by things that frankly are unrelated

You mean like how you keep throwing the SBU performance out there as an excuse for the pathetic announced attendance of the SBU game .... ?

[Bausfkid]

Sort of reminds me a bit of Stan Heath's issues at USF.  Guy was winning, but many fans didn't like the final scores of 47 - 41 so he was fired.  Dumb.

Strong is undefeated and he's getting flack because we aren't winning games by 30+. 

If you want video game scores and plays stay home and play video games.

[Triple B]

2 minutes ago, Bausfkid said:

Sort of reminds me a bit of Stan Heath's issues at USF.  Guy was winning, but many fans didn't like the final scores of 47 - 41 so he was fired.  Dumb.

Not quite accurate, Ba. Stan was fired because wasn't winning and those who made the decision were too ignorant to recognize that USF MBB doesn't reload. Stan finally had the facilities, which garnered a pretty good recruiting class but was given only one year with that class ...

[Rocky Style]

3 minutes ago, Bausfkid said:

Sort of reminds me a bit of Stan Heath's issues at USF.  Guy was winning, but many fans didn't like the final scores of 47 - 41 so he was fired.  Dumb.

Strong is undefeated and he's getting flack because we aren't winning games by 30+. 

If you want video game scores and plays stay home and play video games.

As long as he also wins against good teams by 6 points, I have a feeling he will be fine.  Winning the conference or a NY6 bowl by 6 points would be legendary around here.  

Alternative theory to the chicken or egg theories on here, what if this amount of fans is just literally the same die hards that always come out?  It might take generations to build up the history of some of these traditional powers.  Then you get the bandwagon here or there based on the high stakes situations that can win over casual fans to come back.

[Bull Matrix]

10 minutes ago, Bausfkid said:

Sort of reminds me a bit of Stan Heath's issues at USF.  Guy was winning, but many fans didn't like the final scores of 47 - 41 so he was fired.  Dumb.

Strong is undefeated and he's getting flack because we aren't winning games by 30+. 

If you want video game scores and plays stay home and play video games.

Lol the problem is a lot of people are staying home and playing video games instead of going to the games 

[cdub3511]

Since when is asking for more fan support considered a jab?  Admittedly I didn't see the whole press conference but his quote in the article acknowledged the fans that did show up and asked for everyone else to get on board.  Unless I missed it he didn't call out anyone who did attend the game nor did he directly link attendance to team performance.  He just wants more butts in seats and can any of us blame him for that? 

I think we can all agree that the performance on the field thus far has not been what we expected but should that prevent CCS from asking for people to show up and support the team?  Regardless of whether you think attendance and team performance are related, It's a win for everyone if he's able to motivate more people to buy tickets and show up.  No issue from my perspective.