This may be one of those questions that varies by age.
If you're a teen, or in your twenties, roughly the same age as the players, I can see forming particular bonds with them, or the opposite, dislike. For individual players, or for the group, the whole team.
But if you're in a different generation, there's, a separateness. College-age folks are not peers. Bonds don't form as easily. It's not as natural to have intense feelings about them (excepting relatives, of course). So emotions are more muted. Like and dislike become...less powerful, I guess. Toned way down.
And perspectives can change with age, too. Often, we see more clearly how easily people are influenced: in their development and skills, also in their beliefs and values. So we begin to look more closely at the leaders who had the influence. The blame starts to shift. Never completely; every person remains responsible for him or herself. But nonetheless, age and experience often cause our perspective to shift some of the blame--even the majority of it--on to the people who led the younger ones astray.
So if you're 16 or 25 or even 32, chances are good you might be feeling as the OP does. If you're 40 or 50 or 75, you might tend more toward thinking of the team as (partially, if not wholly) caught up in circumstance.
In the latter case, dislike wouldn't be the right emotion. More toward disappointment and regret. That's what I feel for this team.
