(05-01-2013 09:32 PM)mufanatehc Wrote:  

(05-01-2013 09:27 PM)shere khan Wrote:  its real hard for me to believe that a fan of any school in cusa or the aac (irks me to type aac) can be a bandwagon fan. you can cuss them, think you hate them, swear them off but you always come back. when afternoon shadows start to fall they way they do as football season approaches he will be ready to see his old school lace em up.

Didn't Memphis get a lot of band-wagoners during the Cal years?

Memphis has its own brand of bandwagon fans. They degrade our players, recruits, coaches, etc in a public manner and do it behind the shield of "objectivity."

(05-01-2013 07:28 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  To be fair, undergraduate degrees ARE close to worthless now.

Compare the unemployment rate of those with and without

He sounds like my aunt who is a big uk homer. Whined and moped when tubby got the axe. "Ill never go to another event!!!!" Was at BBM that fall.

Looks to me like we got an attention whore here. nothing more nothing less. Always had look at me type posts imo. And this is just one more example. I hate to say it, but WKU has a few Fair Weather Fans. Do not understand it, never been there. So idk.

I love the off-season.

the following is what this thread is really about: PAY ATTENTION TO ME! PAY ATTENTION TO ME!

(05-02-2013 06:25 AM)TG4 Wrote:  I love the off-season.

....trust me, it gets better....

(05-01-2013 10:08 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  Ooh.. I just realized I missed the key line in Andre's rant..

Quote:And I'll finish up with this: this is not about market, budget, performance on the field, money, or anything else other than leadership.

LOL... So you're finally confessing that you just hate who the AD is at the moment, and the moment that he's let go, you'll be back, claiming to be a tried-and-true loyal fan?

I think so.. He's mad they hadn't released the General, who hasn't accomplished nearly the things that RG did in his entire tenure. It's like Andre figured GJH would've increased our revenue by 200% and have us in the SEC in a few months, when it didn't happen, he wasn't happy.

I liked the narcissist comment. Me! Me! Me! Look at me! Attention whore. Similar to Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian.

You never ever ever quit on your school. Right now I know Tech fans are pissed off about losing our coach, no bowl game, and how screwed up our endzone expansion is going but the true fans won't throw in the towel. True fans just get pissed off and ***** more on message boards and end up caring more than the day before.

(05-02-2013 06:25 AM)TG4 Wrote:  I love the off-season.

There is no off season as a fan, only long periods of discussion time between games.

(05-02-2013 08:10 AM)RonBurgundy Wrote:  You never ever ever quit on your school. Right now I know Tech fans are pissed off about losing our coach, no bowl game, and how screwed up our endzone expansion is going but the true fans won't throw in the towel. True fans just get pissed off and ***** more on message boards and end up caring more than the day before.

We feel your pain. It was going to be ugly here if Elllllllllllloss would not have been fired. I will always support the school. Some fans including myself made a protest move....sometimes that has to happen.



Yeah, that's me!

In this case, I don't get it. I just don't understand the hate towards JH.

I also don't understand how not being chosen by the AAC would put one in this position. Obviously, for Andre that would be bent over with a finger, thumb, and size 12 up his arse.

edit: here is the backside.....

I can relate to Andre.

I've been a Houston Astros fan since I got a 1970 Joe Morgan card and just decided he was going to be my favorite player and that was going to be my favorite team... ironically enough, he was dealt to the team I most despised not too much later... Cesar Cedeno replaced him as a result.

However, Jim Crane, the new Astros owner, essentially took a bribe from the devil, Bud Selig... a 10% discount on the sale price... to move a team from a city that has been associated with the National League for most of 90 years to play strategy-less baseball. When you're used to chess, checkers sucks... I can't stomach watching AL ball... never could.

So... I've decided that as a consumer, I have a choice, especially in this age of satellite TV. I don't have to take what Selig and Crane's BS and their presumption that I am a slave to their game. I'm not, and in fact, I've even given up baseball, at least temporarily. If I ever come back, it might be as a fan of another NL team, or better, I might come back if we can ever see a compromise rule that restores strategy in the AL game. I'd love that. But for now, Selig's not getting a dime from me, and Crane's not getting a penny.

Would I react in the same way to Marshall?

Nah.

Marshall didn't ask for this to happen. There was no one at the top driving us toward this situation.

Did Banowsky/CUSA leadership make a stupid decision?

Well, yes.

Time has proven that if he'd had the patience of his pal MWC Commish Thompson, we likely would have seen the defectors follow the path of Boise and SDSU back to their former conference once it was discovered that the TV contract the networks would offer wasn't all that the Big East commishs had hyped it up to be, and in fact, wasn't even much more than the current CUSA 2.0 contract.... who, after all, wants to pay entrance and exit fees only to play mostly the same teams you've been playing anyhow... and knowing that if you return, the four Big East leftovers had little option than to join CUSA or turn indy.

But unlike Crane, Banowsky isn't an owner, and didn't profit from his bad decision. One can be certain his intentions were sincere, and attempting to look out for us Marshall fans as well as the other CUSA leftover fans.

I wouldn't turn my back on Marshall over that.

But what is more disconcerting is watching my fellow Herd fans embrace this current situation as-if our fate has improved. It's one thing to accentuate positives, it's another to be so blind to the negatives that you become MAC fan clones... virtually all ambition tossed to the wind, and shouting down/insulting anyone who wants something better.

If anything would drive me to mirror Andre, seeing a majority of Herd Nation convert to that mindset might do it.

(05-02-2013 09:42 AM)_sturt_ Wrote:  I can relate to Andre.

I've been a Houston Astros fan since I got a 1970 Joe Morgan card and just decided he was going to be my favorite player and that was going to be my favorite team... ironically enough, he was dealt to the team I most despised not too much later... Cesar Cedeno replaced him as a result.

However, Jim Crane, the new Astros owner, essentially took a bribe from the devil, Bud Selig... a 10% discount on the sale price... to move a team from a city that has been associated with the National League for most of 90 years to play strategy-less baseball. When you're used to chess, checkers sucks... I can't stomach watching AL ball... never could.

So... I've decided that as a consumer, I have a choice, especially in this age of satellite TV. I don't have to take what Selig and Crane's BS and their presumption that I am a slave to their game. I'm not, and in fact, I've even given up baseball, at least temporarily. If I ever come back, it might be as a fan of another NL team, or better, I might come back if we can ever see a compromise rule that restores strategy in the AL game. I'd love that. But for now, Selig's not getting a dime from me, and Crane's not getting a penny.

Would I react in the same way to Marshall?

Nah.

Marshall didn't ask for this to happen. There was no one at the top driving us toward this situation.

Did Banowsky/CUSA leadership make a stupid decision?

Well, yes.

Time has proven that if he'd had the patience of his pal MWC Commish Thompson, we likely would have seen the defectors follow the path of Boise and SDSU back to their former conference once it was discovered that the TV contract the networks would offer wasn't all that the Big East commishs had hyped it up to be, and in fact, wasn't even much more than the current CUSA 2.0 contract.... who, after all, wants to pay entrance and exit fees only to play mostly the same teams you've been playing anyhow... and knowing that if you return, the four Big East leftovers had little option than to join CUSA or turn indy.

But unlike Crane, Banowsky isn't an owner, and didn't profit from his bad decision. One can be certain his intentions were sincere, and attempting to look out for us Marshall fans as well as the other CUSA leftover fans.

I wouldn't turn my back on Marshall over that.

But what is more disconcerting is watching my fellow Herd fans embrace this current situation as-if our fate has improved. It's one thing to accentuate positives, it's another to be so blind to the negatives that you become MAC fan clones... virtually all ambition tossed to the wind, and shouting down/insulting anyone who wants something better.

If anything would drive me to mirror Andre, seeing a majority of Herd Nation convert to that mindset might do it.

There are different ways to do it....comparing collegiate athletics to professional sports is a different animal...while the butts in the seats is the end result, one group has more influence predicating the influence over the other.

Saints fans wore bags for years...we got it right after one season (with the firing)....just sayin'

(05-01-2013 01:35 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  Hopping off of the USM bandwagon for a while...

(05-02-2013 09:42 AM)_sturt_ Wrote:  I can relate to Andre.

I've been a Houston Astros fan since I got a 1970 Joe Morgan card and just decided he was going to be my favorite player and that was going to be my favorite team... ironically enough, he was dealt to the team I most despised not too much later... Cesar Cedeno replaced him as a result.

However, Jim Crane, the new Astros owner, essentially took a bribe from the devil, Bud Selig... a 10% discount on the sale price... to move a team from a city that has been associated with the National League for most of 90 years to play strategy-less baseball. When you're used to chess, checkers sucks... I can't stomach watching AL ball... never could.

So... I've decided that as a consumer, I have a choice, especially in this age of satellite TV. I don't have to take what Selig and Crane's BS and their presumption that I am a slave to their game. I'm not, and in fact, I've even given up baseball, at least temporarily. If I ever come back, it might be as a fan of another NL team, or better, I might come back if we can ever see a compromise rule that restores strategy in the AL game. I'd love that. But for now, Selig's not getting a dime from me, and Crane's not getting a penny.

Would I react in the same way to Marshall?

Nah.

Marshall didn't ask for this to happen. There was no one at the top driving us toward this situation.

Did Banowsky/CUSA leadership make a stupid decision?

Well, yes.

Time has proven that if he'd had the patience of his pal MWC Commish Thompson, we likely would have seen the defectors follow the path of Boise and SDSU back to their former conference once it was discovered that the TV contract the networks would offer wasn't all that the Big East commishs had hyped it up to be, and in fact, wasn't even much more than the current CUSA 2.0 contract.... who, after all, wants to pay entrance and exit fees only to play mostly the same teams you've been playing anyhow... and knowing that if you return, the four Big East leftovers had little option than to join CUSA or turn indy.

But unlike Crane, Banowsky isn't an owner, and didn't profit from his bad decision. One can be certain his intentions were sincere, and attempting to look out for us Marshall fans as well as the other CUSA leftover fans.

I wouldn't turn my back on Marshall over that.

But what is more disconcerting is watching my fellow Herd fans embrace this current situation as-if our fate has improved. It's one thing to accentuate positives, it's another to be so blind to the negatives that you become MAC fan clones... virtually all ambition tossed to the wind, and shouting down/insulting anyone who wants something better.

If anything would drive me to mirror Andre, seeing a majority of Herd Nation convert to that mindset might do it.

Do you really think that there are long-time die-hard fans that don't "want(s) something better"?.....not just for whatever program you're a fan of, but for any program?

Is hollering negative comments on a message board whenever possible really doing what you want it to?

What difference has it really made? Is it improving the conference, or only making the situation look worse than it is?

Is yours or any one's situation ever improved by being a negative Nancy on a message board?.....or does it merely make the situation that you're in look more dire than it really is?

(05-02-2013 05:35 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  

(05-01-2013 07:28 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  To be fair, undergraduate degrees ARE close to worthless now.

Compare the unemployment rate of those with and without

So, even as a Ph.D. candidate you don't understand context. Is that what you're saying?

Ass-hattery at it's finest - I'm sure you're actually TRYING to be a d***; go hunt up stilljonesing and follow him around - you two could learn from each other.

OK - playing your stupid ass game - tell me, what exactly is the percentage of Ph.D. candidates who would be Ph.D. candidates without an undergraduate degree? Some - yes, I know. But percentage wise I'm guessing less than 1% would even be possible and considerably less than that in actuality.

Bandwagon fans aren't really fans anyway. They are just along for the ride during the good times and then pick another winner when times get tough. Remaining a fan through the bad times is more difficult, but makes the good times more satisfying.

(05-02-2013 10:34 AM)oldtiger Wrote:  

(05-02-2013 09:42 AM)_sturt_ Wrote:  I can relate to Andre.

I've been a Houston Astros fan since I got a 1970 Joe Morgan card and just decided he was going to be my favorite player and that was going to be my favorite team... ironically enough, he was dealt to the team I most despised not too much later... Cesar Cedeno replaced him as a result.

However, Jim Crane, the new Astros owner, essentially took a bribe from the devil, Bud Selig... a 10% discount on the sale price... to move a team from a city that has been associated with the National League for most of 90 years to play strategy-less baseball. When you're used to chess, checkers sucks... I can't stomach watching AL ball... never could.

So... I've decided that as a consumer, I have a choice, especially in this age of satellite TV. I don't have to take what Selig and Crane's BS and their presumption that I am a slave to their game. I'm not, and in fact, I've even given up baseball, at least temporarily. If I ever come back, it might be as a fan of another NL team, or better, I might come back if we can ever see a compromise rule that restores strategy in the AL game. I'd love that. But for now, Selig's not getting a dime from me, and Crane's not getting a penny.

Would I react in the same way to Marshall?

Nah.

Marshall didn't ask for this to happen. There was no one at the top driving us toward this situation.

Did Banowsky/CUSA leadership make a stupid decision?

Well, yes.

Time has proven that if he'd had the patience of his pal MWC Commish Thompson, we likely would have seen the defectors follow the path of Boise and SDSU back to their former conference once it was discovered that the TV contract the networks would offer wasn't all that the Big East commishs had hyped it up to be, and in fact, wasn't even much more than the current CUSA 2.0 contract.... who, after all, wants to pay entrance and exit fees only to play mostly the same teams you've been playing anyhow... and knowing that if you return, the four Big East leftovers had little option than to join CUSA or turn indy.

But unlike Crane, Banowsky isn't an owner, and didn't profit from his bad decision. One can be certain his intentions were sincere, and attempting to look out for us Marshall fans as well as the other CUSA leftover fans.

I wouldn't turn my back on Marshall over that.

But what is more disconcerting is watching my fellow Herd fans embrace this current situation as-if our fate has improved. It's one thing to accentuate positives, it's another to be so blind to the negatives that you become MAC fan clones... virtually all ambition tossed to the wind, and shouting down/insulting anyone who wants something better.

If anything would drive me to mirror Andre, seeing a majority of Herd Nation convert to that mindset might do it.

Do you really think that there are long-time die-hard fans that don't "want(s) something better"?.....not just for whatever program you're a fan of, but for any program?

Is hollering negative comments on a message board whenever possible really doing what you want it to?

What difference has it really made? Is it improving the conference, or only making the situation look worse than it is?

Is yours or any one's situation ever improved by being a negative Nancy on a message board?.....or does it merely make the situation that you're in look more dire than it really is?

You know what is really sad...he knew he going to be the 'catcher' in this...

I am all about the biatch based on performance.....this one is a serious head scratcher.

btw...I knew you had it in ya....lol

(05-02-2013 11:13 AM)VA49er Wrote:  Bandwagon fans aren't really fans anyway. They are just along for the ride during the good times and then pick another winner when times get tough. Remaining a fan through the bad times is more difficult, but makes the good times more satisfying.

We have many MSU and ole pissy fans here in the 'burg...there are some that support when we win and don't if we don't....so, XACLY...it's our achilles heel.

The point being is when a 'fan' comes with this crap, it makes it even tougher. It's a shame....

One of my best buds here is from Iowa (yeah, the bastards that sued us for a freakin' logo)...he is a diehard in the big 3 sports and pays 1k to tailgate for football along with two season tickets to the three.

You would never know he didn't attend USM.

Andre, you should be ashamed to even remotely call yourself a supporter.

(05-02-2013 10:39 AM)WinOrLoseEAGLE Wrote:  

(05-02-2013 05:35 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  

(05-01-2013 07:28 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  To be fair, undergraduate degrees ARE close to worthless now.

Compare the unemployment rate of those with and without

So, even as a Ph.D. candidate you don't understand context. Is that what you're saying?

Ass-hattery at it's finest - I'm sure you're actually TRYING to be a d***; go hunt up stilljonesing and follow him around - you two could learn from each other.

OK - playing your stupid ass game - tell me, what exactly is the percentage of Ph.D. candidates who would be Ph.D. candidates without an undergraduate degree? Some - yes, I know. But percentage wise I'm guessing less than 1% would even be possible and considerably less than that in actuality.

huh?