Personally I don't worry about the fanbase much. If the team is competing for the conference and a threat to make tourney runs a significant majority of fans will be happy. We may not win the conference and anything can happen in the tourney, but just be in the mix, that's fun, and do that long enough and some breakthrough wins will come.
Summer 2023 the fanbase was united, the most since 2016 or 2012. But after a very bad season, some player issues, and Mike getting sensitive in pressers and senior night, a lot of fans were turned off. He just couldn't bring himself to own the results.
The good news is if the current team is as good as we think it could be, the fans will be happy enough after a few games.