Well they certainly identified the people who didn't think he could win the last 3 years. Karma kind of sucks doesn't it.
The appearance of vindictiveness isn't about supporting the head coach. Its about the treatment towards anyone that called this train wreck early on. And now their attempts to play it off as "just supporting the coach". Many on here have changed the goal posts. They went from saying how great Riley was and criticizing anyone who didn't believe them to all of a sudden saying.....well it turned out he couldn't make it work but the critics still deserved it because we were just supporting our coach.
You only see what you want to see. Again.......I'll explain this to you. Its not about being a supporter. Its about the ones who were very hard on posters that dared recognize the train wreck early.
I've only been "hard" (not sure what that means, we're all adults here) on people who appeared to be fine with or even prefer losing in order to get MR out of here. You have admitted to as much in recent weeks, so I appreciate your honesty. I just happen to think that's a ridiculous approach. "Yeah, that's my team. Hope they lose out, cause, you know, .500 coach and what not".
i also took exception to posters who would pollute every thread with that crap. "Bell on Bilitnikoff Watch List" would turn into "Riley is a loser" by post 12, because it had to be in every thread.
Finally, when someone says "I respect the man" and then call him a loser, fool, or other similar name....they don't respect him. That's just silly. I've had disagreements with folks on here about what Langs could do with a throwing QB, whether recruiting was improving, etc, and didn't do any of the 'Butthurt about Bo' stuff you mention, because that would make no more sense than being a cheerleader for your 'favorite' team's demise because you don't like the coach and have an inherent need to be right.