With all due respect I don't believe being upset that your team lost to inferior talent means a person has lost their perspective.  Further, we are a top five program in the nation.  Why should we "adapt" to being a loser, and who in their right minds enjoys going to a game and watching their team lose?  To me that just says we don't care, and if we don't care then why even bother going to the game?

Anyone who follows college sports long enough will learn that success is cyclical.  During the more than 50 years that I've been an avid college sports fan, I've seen both of my alma maters -- Duke and Florida -- experience periods of feast and famine in the two sports I follow most closely, football and basketball.  For those young fans who marvel today at Alabama's current run, note that 10 years ago the Tide had a 4-9 season, and just 6 years ago lost at home to Louisiana-Monroe. 

Based on my observations, fans who have experienced the cycles tend to enjoy most the ascent from the "valley" to the "mountaintop" -- the adrenaline rush of unanticipated success can be especially intoxicating.  Once a program reaches the elite level and sustains it through a championship era, even the fans who remember the years mired in mediocrity (or worse) often come to take success for granted.  In fact, during such periods it's not uncommon to find longtime fans joining recent arrivals in criticizing some of the wins as not sufficiently impressive or less than stylistically pleasing.  And predictably, other "old timers" will remind everyone that it's important to appreciate the good times, because the cycle will inevitably bring the program back to earth.  It's just human nature.

Regardless of your team's record, losing to a better team ought to be understandable.  Conversely, losing at home to a team that, by any conventional measure, should not pose a serious threat is a legitimate cause for complaint.  But if we try to take the long-term view, the loss to Georgia Southern yesterday, and the post-game reactions, should sharpen our perspectives in two important respects. 

On the one hand, as Leisure G8R points out, it means the Gators have hit bottom, so there's no where to go but up.  And in that respect, the realization that Gator football is no longer a championship program -- or even a winning, bowl-eligible program -- will hopefully restore among our fans a sense of appreciation for the joy of winning.  Stated another way, us old timers can smile at the newbies as we resurrect that ancient mantra that Gator fans once chanted with pride:  "Wait' til next year!"  Moreover, we can look forward to enjoying once again -- hopefully in the not-too-distant future -- that most fun of rides, the ascent back to college football "relevance."

 On the other hand, as Lava observes, we have every right as Gator fans to deem the performance of our team and coaches yesterday unacceptable.  These players and coaches represent the University of Florida, and as fans, alumni, and supporters of UF we should expect that those who represent the University will do so with pride and respect and dignity.  I don't know whether the inept performance of the team and breakdowns in execution were the results of poor motivation or poor discipline or poor coaching; but in any event, I believe the responsibility ultimately rests on the shoulders of the man who wears the headphones on the sidelines.  I'll admit there were times when Coach Spurrier would say things to the press that would make me cringe.  And there were times when I questioned whether Coach Meyer had much genuine enthusiasm for the Gators.  But never did either of those men embarrass the University of Florida with behavior like that displayed by Coach Muschamp in his postgame press conference.  What we saw was a man who, in my opinion, plainly lacks the temperament and maturity to occupy a position in which he is expected to be a leader and a role model and, perhaps most importantly, a representative of the University of Florida. 

So from my perspective, yesterday's game provided us an unacceptable loss, but with a silver lining.  Now I believe we all agree that the time has come to make a change that will arrest the continued descent of Gator football  under this coaching staff -- with the undesirable dissension among the ranks of Gators it has stirred -- and start to restore a program that commands respect from our opponents and evokes a sense of pride among those of us it represents.