There’s a double standard alright, but 180 degrees from what you are saying. I don’t know what internet you are on but the SU hoops program and players take FAR more abuse from fans, relative to the success of the program, than SU football does.
Basketball: Buddy scores 25 points.
Fan commentary: Buddy plays too much, he can’t do anything besides score, his shoelace came untied at the 8 minute mark…if that were any other player he would have been benched.
Football: Tommy fails to see 5 wide open receivers and dives into the turf untouched 3 yards short of a critical first down.
Fan commentary: He had a solid game; 186 passing yards. And anyway, he would have passed for over 400 if Taj had not shaken his head in frustration a few times. All is well. (note that this is not a knock on Tommy; it is satire)
Basketball: SU is one of the true legendary basketball programs and JB has never had a losing season in 43 years.
Fan commentary: the game has passed him by, the program is in freefall, he should be replaced by some guy I saw on TV the other night, he can’t recruit, everything he does is wrong, etc etc etc
Football: Dino had that 10 win season with a QB he didn’t recruit, but he has had three losing seasons in the past four, things are obviously tenuous enough that he fired both is OC and DC. Recruiting? Eh…TBD.
Fan commentary: We are obviously moving in the right direction, belief without evidence, all-in on Dino, God-love him he can do a post-game locker speech with the best of them, all he needs is a few more years.
Note that this is largely tongue-in-cheek but it ain’t that far off the mark in terms of how much of a leash SU fans give football vs basketball. Part of that is due to how spoiled they are by basketball and how emotionally beaten into submission they are by football. They are more likely to be totally apathetic about SU football rather than critical about SU football and hyper-critical about SU hoops rather than apathetic. So yeah, I totally disagree with your premise.
