The Social Media Blitz: Rams Fans Disturbed by Football Team's Loosing Streak

By Amilliona C. Harding

The WSSU social media footprint for the 2026 Ram football season has been riddled with five straight losses, with a growing swell of non-support of the team, and even calls for the coaches' immediate removal. These specific comments on Fizz have not only gotten over 1000 upvotes, but people commenting in agreement, most comments saying they aren't going to the games until the team starts winning.” y'all got us paying an athletic fee for y'all to be losing???” “The head coach's employment status before homecoming {fired}.” “betta be lucky there isn't a coach transfer portal”

  On the request of anonymity, one current WSSU football player believes it “has driven the audience away” from games. He added that losses impacted practice schedules and team morale.  I interviewed another current football player, who also chose to remain anonymous, said that the “social media backlash has driven the crowds; away every game, theres less people.” Regarding the social media traffic, alumna president, Mr. Anthony Pace, takes a different perspective. Non-attendance at Rams football games is “its an excuse to not attend and support your team on campus as well as sharing information and slandering whats happening to our team and on our campus for the world to see and not only does this make the campus look bad but it makes faculty look bad” It is not just students who are on social media but faculty staff and alums as well. Pace added, “he had a meeting with the chancellor about social media and sharing information online and how the faculty and staff are way worse on facebook and have to be told repeatedly to stop slandering the school or staff.” He explained that the meeting with the chancellor was part of a national alumni meeting and was not specifically about the football team's five losses. He said the conversation was about how people in the WSSU community are using social media and sharing information about the school.

Pace said social media is not private and that if people have a problem with the team or the university, they should be careful about putting it online for everyone to see. He said people can complain, but it can make the university look bad when those complaints are shared publicly. Pace also disagreed with the idea that people are only staying away from games because the team is losing. He said attendance has been a problem even when the Rams were winning. “Even when we were a national championship-quality football team, we didn't attend the games like we're supposed to,” Pace said.

Pace talked about the years when WSSU was a national power and said that even while the team was winning, attendance was still not what it should have been. He also remembered a journalist being surprised by the low attendance when WSSU went to the national championship game.“Losing becomes an excuse,” Pace said.

The players interviewed see the social media backlash and the losses differently, saying they have noticed fewer people at the games as the season continues. Pace believes social media has become another place where frustration about the team is being shared publicly, but he also believes the attendance problem existed before the current losing streak.

As the Rams continue through the season, the conversation about the football team is not only happening at the games. It is also happening across Fizz, Facebook, and other social media platforms, where students, players, faculty, staff, and alumni are sharing their opinions about the team and the university.