This is pure insanity.
But to say "I'm rooting against this team until they make good moves" is the same as saying "I'm always going to root against this team unless they win the Stanley Cup."
Not quite.
I have no delusions that any team should or could win it all every year. Not even remotely possible.
But I also think the notion of, "Just make the playoffs and anything can happen" is a lot more nonsense than good sense. A Cinderella Finals run is the rare exception, not the rule, and even those exceptions are almost always followed by a prompt return to irrelevance.
Detroit had a historic period of success, and I don't expect that to be duplicated. But I do expect them to eventually rebuild into a year-in, year-out legit contender. Not a, "Hooray! We made the playoffs!" upstart. A franchise where anything less than the Conference Finals is a disappointment.
To put it another way, you're either elite, boldly rebuilding to become elite, or a waste of my time. And since I deem their current approach to not match either of the first two categories, I consider them a waste of time, and root against them until they sufficiently reload or rebuild.
Am I harsh? Extremely. But I still don't see this roster getting past the second round, and until their success improves enough to consistently prove me wrong, I'm not wasting my time, let alone money, in supporting a sub-standard product.
