Fans just want MU to exist in 2 areas at the same time which absolutely cannot happen.
In one area, MU can never lose a game, is the best G5 program out there, and it's a crime Alabama hasn't put MU on the schedule for a home and home.
In the other area, MU is a small public university in rural, poor WV. MU couldn't possibly compete with Boise or ucf...no money, no market, no recruits etc.
Do you know how hard it is for ANY program at any level to go undefeated? You get maybe two schools a season, 1 P5 and 1 G5, and that's it. The shock and awe that MU can lose a game, is not entirely out of the realm of realism, as every team experiences it. Get over it, MU will lose games. Everyone drops a game they shouldn't.
Then there are those who will say, "Well, Huff goes 9-3 or 8-4...just being realistic" flip the hell out when he...actually...loses a game or two. Like those fans wanted to be wrong about being realistic??
There's literally a thread questioning Huff's ability to coach, who hasn't underachieved by the pre-season predictions of the majority here and by the ones done by most publications...yet somehow he's in the same conversation with a guy who apparently has destroyed MU beyond all repair with his coaching and record over 11 years.
Makes no sense at all with this crowd.
As for the games themselves:
You want less advertising? Be ready to pay a higher price for a ticket to offset the cost of less advertising. You want to compete with the top level G5 programs? Maybe you'll have to sit through a bad weather game moving at a snail's pace, but your presence will show MU has the support to be a top level G5 program...this includes bad teams coming to town because MU simply can't get the SEC on the schedule every year, settle for someone else and be happy MU has a program.
Funny how some here are completely pessimistic in MU making the atmosphere better, when Huff literally changed how the tailgates happen, in an effort to make things a better overall experience for fans.
As much of a letdown as some games under Huff have been, at least he is trying to make things better, and he hasn't been here a full season. Unlike some who boast having followed the Herd for decades long before Huff was even born and haven't done jack sh*t in that time frame to help or suggest changes.
My question is, and I really am asking, why? When did it become about everything EXCEPT the game's outcome? If DD and the basketball team get crushed at home, I don't know anyone who'd say, "boy, that was exciting!!" It has happened, Dan hasn't exactly shown up consistently when a marquee win was on the table.
Is it the pace of basketball by comparison to football? Is it that everything's more compact and indoors so its easier to follow? The basketball games have tons of advertising in them as well...entire timeouts focus on business' mascots doing weird stuff on the court.
But somehow, its better than football? You're likely also going to have more advertising because they don't get the money football does thus, they need more of it...in a building everyone (even DD) has complained about for years?
Not sure the answer myself, but even with a high powered offense like Bama, Nick Saban even called out the fans for leaving early, so I guess MU and Bama are alike in that sense.
