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Topic:  Fan support needed more than ever
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L.C.
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  Message Not Read  Fan support needed more than ever
   Posted: 10/30/2012 11:57:36 AM 
The thing is this - team don't really need support when they win. Every team that wins has support. That's the easy part, and it's a given. Teams do need support when they lose badly, but it can only help a little. After bad losses, the teams have to re-group on their own. The time when teams really, really need support is after the close losses, the tough ones, the ones that hurt.

The fans think those losses hurt, but believe me, they hurt the players more than they hurt the fans. It is oh so easy for a player to keep thinking "if only...", or to think about what they have lost, and not what they have yet to do. It is quite easy, after a tough, tough loss, for a team to go into a slump, and lose 2-3 more. This is a time when the coaches earn their pay. Can the coaches get the team, on 5 days notice, to focus on EMU? To put Miami behind them? Now that they have lost the eyepatch, the players can turn it loose, and play with reckless abandon. They can play with a chip on their shoulder. Or, alternately, they can fall into the trap of thinking about what might have been. Which will it be?

After a tough, tough loss, any kind of fan support can help to get the get the team out of that slump. Why? Precisely because the team doesn't expect it. The team expects fans to be frustrated and angry. The team isn't surprised when a fan turns their back on them, after a tough loss. Therefore, at a time like this, any time any fan shows support for them, stands behind them, it means 10x, 1000x more than it does the rest of the season.

For those of you in Athens, if you see a Bobcat this week, show them some support. They will appreciate it more than you can know.

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus

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Doc Bobcat
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   Posted: 10/30/2012 12:11:32 PM 
I'm still hopin for a MAC championship and a decent bowl game so why not support the team?
 
If some feel the season is over after the fiami loss then so be it  The key to a championship is not  always a perfect season but how those players and fans bounce back after a tough loss. Let the other teams and the bandwagon fans (who jump on and off quicker than a jackrabitt in  Arizona) write us off and forget about us......we just need to come back like mad dogs and let the chips fall where they may.
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BillyTheCat
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   Posted: 10/30/2012 12:46:11 PM 
L.C. wrote:
The thing is this - team don't really need support when they win. Every team that wins has support. That's the easy part, and it's a given. Teams do need support when they lose badly, but it can only help a little. After bad losses, the teams have to re-group on their own. The time when teams really, really need support is after the close losses, the tough ones, the ones that hurt.

The fans think those losses hurt, but believe me, they hurt the players more than they hurt the fans. It is oh so easy for a player to keep thinking "if only...", or to think about what they have lost, and not what they have yet to do. It is quite easy, after a tough, tough loss, for a team to go into a slump, and lose 2-3 more. This is a time when the coaches earn their pay. Can the coaches get the team, on 5 days notice, to focus on EMU? To put Miami behind them? Now that they have lost the eyepatch, the players can turn it loose, and play with reckless abandon. They can play with a chip on their shoulder. Or, alternately, they can fall into the trap of thinking about what might have been. Which will it be?

After a tough, tough loss, any kind of fan support can help to get the get the team out of that slump. Why? Precisely because the team doesn't expect it. The team expects fans to be frustrated and angry. The team isn't surprised when a fan turns their back on them, after a tough loss. Therefore, at a time like this, any time any fan shows support for them, stands behind them, it means 10x, 1000x more than it does the rest of the season.

For those of you in Athens, if you see a Bobcat this week, show them some support. They will appreciate it more than you can know.



How much physical support will exist with a 6:00pm weeknight game with less then stellar weather, that's just silly scheduling by the TV and the MAC
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71 BOBCAT
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fan support needed more than ever
   Posted: 10/30/2012 12:49:32 PM 
I totally agree with L.C.
I would also like to add that the team that can regroup after a loss and finish off the season in style will earn a great deal of respect. Over coming adversity is always viewed as an accomplishment and receives all the appropriate accolades.





GO BOBCATS
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Buster
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   Posted: 10/30/2012 12:59:51 PM 
BillyTheCat wrote:
L.C. wrote:
The thing is this - team don't really need support when they win. Every team that wins has support. That's the easy part, and it's a given. Teams do need support when they lose badly, but it can only help a little. After bad losses, the teams have to re-group on their own. The time when teams really, really need support is after the close losses, the tough ones, the ones that hurt.

The fans think those losses hurt, but believe me, they hurt the players more than they hurt the fans. It is oh so easy for a player to keep thinking "if only...", or to think about what they have lost, and not what they have yet to do. It is quite easy, after a tough, tough loss, for a team to go into a slump, and lose 2-3 more. This is a time when the coaches earn their pay. Can the coaches get the team, on 5 days notice, to focus on EMU? To put Miami behind them? Now that they have lost the eyepatch, the players can turn it loose, and play with reckless abandon. They can play with a chip on their shoulder. Or, alternately, they can fall into the trap of thinking about what might have been. Which will it be?

After a tough, tough loss, any kind of fan support can help to get the get the team out of that slump. Why? Precisely because the team doesn't expect it. The team expects fans to be frustrated and angry. The team isn't surprised when a fan turns their back on them, after a tough loss. Therefore, at a time like this, any time any fan shows support for them, stands behind them, it means 10x, 1000x more than it does the rest of the season.

For those of you in Athens, if you see a Bobcat this week, show them some support. They will appreciate it more than you can know.



How much physical support will exist with a 6:00pm weeknight game with less then stellar weather, that's just silly scheduling by the TV and the MAC


I'll be there.  Rain or shine!  "OU, Oh Yeah!"

I'll tell ya where we'll go. Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talkin' bout a little place called... ATHENS.
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Brian Smith (No, not that one)
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   Posted: 10/30/2012 1:11:10 PM 
 I'd say the loss actually made me more likely to go to this game. I need to see this team roll somebody as a palate cleanser. Plus weeknight games actually fit my schedule better.
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L.C.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fan support needed more than ever
   Posted: 10/30/2012 1:13:42 PM 
BillyTheCat wrote:
How much physical support will exist with a 6:00pm weeknight game with less then stellar weather, that's just silly scheduling by the TV and the MAC

I wasn't talking just about being at the game. I was talking about showing support all week long.

As for the weekday game, that's a tough one for fans. On the other  hand, you can directly trace the improvement in the MAC to the start of those weekday games. Providing MACtion to a nationwide audience, on nights when there are no other games is directly responsible for an increased awareness of the MAC nationwide. That, in turn, led to a significant improvement in the quality of MAC recruiting starting about 2009, and we are seeing the results of that in the increased number of MAC wins over BCS teams this year. I'm guessing the increased awareness of the MAC schools will also improve other aspects of the Universities in the MAC as well, such as increasing applications.

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus

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Kevin Finnegan
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fan support needed more than ever
   Posted: 10/30/2012 2:04:26 PM 
L.C. wrote:


The fans think those losses hurt, but believe me, they hurt the players more than they hurt the fans. It is oh so easy for a player to keep thinking "if only...", or to think about what they have lost, and not what they have yet to do.

For those of you in Athens, if you see a Bobcat this week, show them some support. They will appreciate it more than you can know.



I mentioned something similar to this last year after Offutt missed his free throw in the Sweet 16 match-up.  Saturday's loss will be something on fans minds for a few weeks, maybe the rest of the year.  Over the next year or two, you may think about it a couple of times here and there.  Three, four years from now, it'll be a distant memory.  However, for those involved in Saturday's game, they'll forever be plagued by the 'what if's'.  We'll move on to something different, a new sporting event that will grab our attention or break our hearts.  Yet for these athletes, this will likely eat at them for the rest of their lives. 

Anybody who played sports knows this to be the case.  I still think about the big interception I dropped in my final high school football game.  Would've won us the game.  At the time, some were upset, a little disappointed.  Yet likely I'm the only one who still remembers the play.  Nobody's disappointment could match my own.  

So, L.C., I echo your sentiments.  I cannot wait to pull for these Bobcats again on Thursday and only wish I could do so in person.  They are a wonderful team to watch and cheer for.  They all seem like great guys and wonderful ambassadors for our fine university.  

Go Bobcats!
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Andrew Ruck
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fan support needed more than ever
   Posted: 10/30/2012 2:38:22 PM 
I agree, but I am kind of expecting the crowd to be a bit of a clunker Thursday.  I think the Miami loss will keep 2-3k away, and the weather another 2-3k.

Andrew Ruck
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Bcat2
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   Posted: 10/30/2012 3:31:52 PM 
BillyTheCat wrote:
L.C. wrote:
The thing is this - team don't really need support when they win. Every team that wins has support. That's the easy part, and it's a given. Teams do need support when they lose badly, but it can only help a little. After bad losses, the teams have to re-group on their own. The time when teams really, really need support is after the close losses, the tough ones, the ones that hurt.

The fans think those losses hurt, but believe me, they hurt the players more than they hurt the fans. It is oh so easy for a player to keep thinking "if only...", or to think about what they have lost, and not what they have yet to do. It is quite easy, after a tough, tough loss, for a team to go into a slump, and lose 2-3 more. This is a time when the coaches earn their pay. Can the coaches get the team, on 5 days notice, to focus on EMU? To put Miami behind them? Now that they have lost the eyepatch, the players can turn it loose, and play with reckless abandon. They can play with a chip on their shoulder. Or, alternately, they can fall into the trap of thinking about what might have been. Which will it be?

After a tough, tough loss, any kind of fan support can help to get the get the team out of that slump. Why? Precisely because the team doesn't expect it. The team expects fans to be frustrated and angry. The team isn't surprised when a fan turns their back on them, after a tough loss. Therefore, at a time like this, any time any fan shows support for them, stands behind them, it means 10x, 1000x more than it does the rest of the season.

For those of you in Athens, if you see a Bobcat this week, show them some support. They will appreciate it more than you can know.



How much physical support will exist with a 6:00pm weeknight game with less then stellar weather, that's just silly scheduling by the TV and the MAC


Think about the work and time the players and coaches put in. Then they will be there rain or shine. Fans (derived from fanatics) need to be able to weather a little weather or inconvenience. Preaching to the choir here, but, if you hear fans displaying weakness, call them on it. 

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men." JFK

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71 BOBCAT
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fan support needed more than ever
   Posted: 10/30/2012 7:45:25 PM 
Hey L.C. we can't help if other take your written comments out of context.
I didn't think you needed to explain yourself further.
There are more of us that understand your insightful comments than do not.



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bobcat72
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   Posted: 10/30/2012 8:02:53 PM 
If the weather is OK, I think it could be a very good student crowd. You can't breathe in Athens without seeing the free hats or Chick-Fil-A advertised. Hopefully they can pack the student side and make it look repectable on TV.
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RSBobcat
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   Posted: 10/30/2012 8:28:34 PM 
Looks to me like the weather should be cleared out by then. I gotta think that just knowing the game is on ESPN gets a lot of students out........

RS Bobcat

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L.C.
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   Posted: 10/30/2012 8:45:52 PM 
71 BOBCAT wrote:
Hey L.C. we can't help if other take your written comments out of context.
I didn't think you needed to explain yourself further.
There are more of us that understand your insightful comments than do not...

I know, 71, but I wanted to make sure people understood that I wasn't just saying "Be at the game". While making it to the game will be great, too, I was saying, show support all week long. 

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus

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