BleedGopher
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Go Gophers!!
Go Gophers!!
Bitching at the fans is never a good look....
Gopher Lady had a good Twitter post about the locals not supporting this team as much as they deserve. She is right and at least one former player, Kobe McCrary, piled on about how our fanbase was embarrassing. He is right too, but even though this bugged me a bit while I was at the game, I think it's a bad look to shame local folks for not showing up. I was talking to a fan leaving the game at the end, and he said it's a new problem for fans to leave early because we are blowing out a big ten team.
I'm surprised today didn't sell out, and it looks like it's going to take a little while to and maybe take year over year success to turn this into a packed house. Enjoy the ride and let the marketing dept promote this next game.
I read McCrary's tweet as objecting to Nadine's, not piling on.
How could you possibly have read Kobe’s tweet that way? He was clearly piling on. He has been very critical of fan turnout all season.
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A few things I don't get. Number one is why you would leave early in a game your team is winning. This seems unique to Minnesotans as if there is some sort of prize handed out for least amount of time spent at a stadium or most efficient use of of your day. You had planned to allocate X hours to a college football game and, to me at least, one of the most enjoyable aspects is the garbage time of a game your team is winning. There is no stress, just an oppotunity to enjoy a win with your fellow fans while watching the backups get some time. To contrast this, the second thing I don't really get is this idea that Minnesota has "bad" fans. Please point to a fanbase that has been more supportive while accomplishing less than Minnesota has over the last 50 years. Most of the posters here have never seen a conference title. Up until this season, the Gophers had been ranked for just 8 total games in about 15 years. To make matters worse, both rival schools have had the best stretch of their programs entire history in the last decade or two. Northwestern has 37,124 people show up for their final home game against Illinois last year when they were 7-1 in conference play and headed towards a Big Ten West Division Championship. That program has actually been to a Rose Bowl in my lifetime. It might take an actual special season before people pack TCF Bank Stadium and I think that would be the case most places that have struggled for so long. Finally, it wouldn't occur to me to take a picture of the empty seats during a game in which the Gophers were moving to 8-0. When you have a presence like GopherLady does (who I believe got some face time at her tailgate on ESPN today), I am not sure what the upside of showing those empty seats are? Is that more likely to be used by an assistant coach at a rival to recruit against Minnesota or to motivate people to come (or stay in) to the game? My opinion is the former is far more likely than the latter.
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Holy gaslighting Batman. This is horrific; grow up Nadine. This was the first game I can remember that the upper deck of the student section was actually full. Way to wait until the crowd thinned during an absolute blow out on the last nice day of the year to misrepresent what the atmosphere was actually like. I might ban myself if this is what an admin of an alleged gopher fan forum thinks is appropriate to do.