Gator Twitter idiots need to get off Mike White's back | Commentary

As a kid growing up in Gainesville going to totally irrelevant Florida Gators basketball games at a musty, cramped, archaic old gym known as Alligator Alley, I’m ashamed of many of the Johnny-Come-Lately Gator fans of today. I’m ashamed because they have no sense of historical perspective. I’m ashamed because they are out of touch with reality. Mostly, I’m ashamed about how they are treating Mike White — a good man, a good father, a good husband and, yes, a good basketball coach. White says he doesn’t see or hear the mean-spirited, ridiculous, fire-the-coach criticism being heaped upon him by the idiotic minority of Gator fans on social media, who are freaking out after a loss to 15th-seeded Oral Roberts in the second round of the NCAA Tournament a couple of weeks ago and the resulting rash of UF players (four) who have since entered the transfer portal. White instead chose to take the high road when I asked him how he is handling the criticism from the legions of the miserable on Twitter. “I love the passion of our fan base,” White says. “It’s part of what makes this place special. And obviously it puts a healthy pressure on…
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