Booing not good for recruiting!!!

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Someone told me that CPF said at a PC that the fans booing do not help for recruiting. Especially when the recruits are at the game when we are booing. I think I would have to agree with this.

My question is what are some other ways of tell the football program it needs changes without hurting recruitments?

Should we stop booing and trying something else?
 
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How about not showing up....or would that be too harsh?

Booing may not help but you know what does?...Winning. Maximizing what you have. He can't beat out the other good teams in recruiting anymore and our talent level is no longer capable of covering up his deficiencies as a coach or disciplinarian.
 
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Not just losing, but looking lost while doing it can't look attractive to a recruit either, can it?
 
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That is weak....I don't recall many fans booing during home games last year (we were unbeaten at home) and yet our signing class in February was absolutely worthless....You know what hurts recruiting? Subjecting High School kids with low attention spans to games as boring as the last three we have played.
 
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#15
the level of play we've shown relative to reasonable expectations isn't good for those seeking absence of booing.
 
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#17
I actually agree with Phil. I will boo another team, but never my own. If you're at a game and you're that disgusted, just leave.
 
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Fans of most sports boo when they are unhappy. That means they still care what is going on. The next step is when they don't show up. If Fulmer thinks booing hurts recruiting, then he should just wait until his product, which the athletic department makes clearer every year is a product and not an amateur sport, disappoints and angers so many people that the fans stop showing up. A stadium as monstrous as Neyland even with 50,000 fans would hurt recruiting more than boos. People would think the Miami Hurricanes moved in or something. With a George Bush economy, high gas prices and the team's current performance, I think we have the perfect storm for some very small crowds. The only real solution is to improve the product. That part is up to a guy that is getting over $3 million a year.
 
#21
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How about total silence? Would that help recruits feel good about everything???
 
#22
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While I do not endorse the booing I must say that it seems to be having the desired effect of rattling the right cages.
 
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VolDad said:
So booing hurts recruiting, but a full stadium that empties at halftime does not.
Click to expand...

in a word, "sorta."

Boing the other team is just part of the atmosphere and no one is truly hurt. Booing your own team is vile and ugly. Fans leaving is not helpfull but puts the emphsis back on the product.
 
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#25
If he would pull our crappy QB and start producing wins then the booing would stop until then everybody BOO
 
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