First of all, media oversaturation is never a good thing, both positive or negative. Second, I think the backlash that you're seeing is primarily due to the fact that even though we're talking about a sports team, their fuckup wasn't sports related. Take Texas a few years back, busted their ass and took the team all the way to the national champ. game, then their star QB breaks something and can't play. Freshman comes in, gets rolled over on, Texas loses. (most) everyone understands, moves on. Proven snotty QB decides he's above the law, starts doing dumb shit. Coach also believes he's above reproach, starts covering up dumb shit. None of these things have anything to do with their on-field performance, and everything to do with the shitty, self-inflicted choices they made that now affect their team, which could have easily been avoided.