The team is no different than anyone else prone to extended periods of doubt or operating outside the team. But some take any acknowledgment of that as a personal attack on players.

NIL has changed how fans feel they can react to college athletes. They are now fair game to criticisms mostly steered at professional athletes in the past. It’s like any professional, not everyone loves you and sometimes your performance is critiqued

They’re big boys and can handle it even if their protectors on cb get in a twist every time someone has the audacity to call a spade a spade based on what is happening in the moment. Those same people criticizing are celebrating like crazy when they right the ship and don’t need to hear from the internet heroes who roam the site looking to find someone who had the nerve to be wrong based on hindsight