“It’s real easy to sit in the stands and boo,” the USUFootball coach said.
Head coach Blake Anderson heard those boos loud and clear — and it’s safe to say he wasn’t happy about it.
“I don’t know how to say it any nicer: A lot of our fanbase showed true colors today and it was embarrassing,” Anderson said following the 35-7 defeat to a Wildcats team ranked No. 16 in the Football Championship Subdivision. Bonner has completed 35 of his 69 attempts to start this season, good for 440 yards and three touchdowns. He ranks 119th out of 131 college quarterbacks in total rating, per ESPN.Anderson was quick to remind USU fans of that fact.
“I don’t know if people are going to want to hear this but that’s the same quarterback that won a Mountain West Conference championship last year, the first one ever at this university,” Anderson said. “That’s coming off a knee injury in less than nine months and he’s not the only person making mistakes. So it’s real easy to sit in the stands and boo.
“They can be mad at me and, hey, we didn’t get it done, we didn’t win,” Anderson said. “But there’s plenty of blame on that sideline to go around, not just one guy. And he did help us win a conference title last year and it ain’t been that long ago. I wish people would remember that and pull for him, not against him.”“We’ve got to learn from [the loss], be critical in the open week, find where we can get better because right now we’re not a very good football team,” Anderson said.