Bleacher has some of the cheesiest rankings in sports. Here is another one. It's a slow day so what the heck

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/16572...by-loyalty

I gotta see this...

link: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/16572...by-loyalty

What an idiot.

The list is titled "Most LOYAL fans", genius. Not "MOST" fans.

Any idiot can fall out of bed a Bama fan (and many do). Let them suck for a few years and watch them stay away in droves.

It takes grit to be a UAB (or Tulane, or Georgia State, or FAU) fan. We don't have bandwagon t-shirt fans.

Every last one of ours are diehards.

Idiot.

#80 Louisiana Tech

Quote:Louisiana Tech had the most explosive offense in the country last year, and the fans seemed to love it as the team had a 20 percent increase in attendance.

The Bulldogs averaged 25,841 fans per game. It will be interesting to see whether or not that number grows next season with a completely different team, including a new head coach.

If it does, this is a team that could be on the rise up these rankings next year.

I don't understand how an SEC team --like Kentucky-- can continue to rank so high (#50) in this "fan loyalty" poll, when their attendance was DOWN 17% last year, to only 49K. For an SEC team --that has the biggest and the best coming to its stadium every week-- that sucks donkey's.

It's the same with Mississippi St at #37. Mississippi State suffered a decrease in attendance despite having an excellent season. What's "loyal" about that? MSU averaged 55,628 fans a game.

Every list ever published by Bleacher Report is worthless, but I'd argue an 0-12 team that averaged 25,000+ has the most loyal fans anywhere. SMTTT.

Not even gonna give them the pageviews they want.

(06-04-2013 02:42 PM)jobu Wrote:  but I'd argue an 0-12 team that averaged 25,000+ has the most loyal fans anywhere.

Exactly.

Loyalty is showing up when they suck.

Poor CNN, they actually use the Bleacher Report as their sports segment

(06-04-2013 02:45 PM)PGPirate Wrote:  Not even gonna give them the pageviews they want.

This

(06-04-2013 02:54 PM)randaddyminer Wrote:  Poor CNN, they actually use the Bleacher Report as their sports segment

The same CNN that has been reporting weather related causalities that they can't confirm? Bleacher Report suits them well.

(06-04-2013 03:00 PM)wh49er Wrote:  

(06-04-2013 02:54 PM)randaddyminer Wrote:  Poor CNN, they actually use the Bleacher Report as their sports segment

The same CNN that has been reporting weather related causalities that they can't confirm? Bleacher Report suits them well.

I just use SI.com since SI evidently split from CNN and now that CNN uses that awful Bleacher Report.

its still sportsillustrated.cnn.com

(06-04-2013 02:48 PM)Smaug Wrote:  

(06-04-2013 02:42 PM)jobu Wrote:  but I'd argue an 0-12 team that averaged 25,000+ has the most loyal fans anywhere.

Exactly.

Loyalty is showing up when they (aren't good).

Yeah, some of us have had a lot of practice at it.

How many Alabama/UT/etc fans would show up after losing to the Quantico Marines? If any of the fans of those programs want to talk to many of us about loyalty......first, show me your "scars" from losses, talk from memory for four hours straight about games that you should have won/had in the bag only to lose in the last in the last minute by insert unbelievable reason for loss .

If BleacherReport/SI/etc wants to rate fan loyalty, come sit with a few of us for a few seasons.

None of this has to do with loyalty.

(06-04-2013 02:42 PM)jobu Wrote:  Every list ever published by Bleacher Report is worthless, but I'd argue an 0-12 team that averaged 25,000+ has the most loyal fans anywhere. SMTTT.

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Makes more sense. This list is so subjective it is off the charts. Just more message board fodder. Nothing to see here everyone, move along to a better topic.

(06-04-2013 02:18 PM)Smaug Wrote:  What an idiot.

The list is titled "Most LOYAL fans", genius. Not "MOST" fans.

Any idiot can fall out of bed a Bama fan (and many do). Let them suck for a few years and watch them stay away in droves.

It takes grit to be a UAB (or Tulane, or Georgia State, or FAU) fan. We don't have bandwagon t-shirt fans.

Every last one of ours are diehards.

Idiot.

Say it again!

I paid my money and sat in the rain to watch a team that hadn't had a winning season in 8 years.

THAT's loyalty.

Pretty much everyone in this conference has sat through games/seasons a Texas/Alabama/Florida/Ohio State, etc fan could never imagine. I remember going to the last game of a 3-8 season where we lost by like 40 to a mediocre Louisiana Tech team (no offense) in the WAC to continue several losing seasons in a row. That's loyalty.