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WeAreMarshall
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  Message Not Read  Ohio VS, Marshall Game
   Posted: 8/21/2010 12:01:05 AM 


Greetings from Herd Country! I've posted here several times in the past and I had to re-register because it looks like you guys have gotten a new website. Looks good.

Its time for football season again. Hopefully some of you can make the trip down to Huntington on September 10th. Being that its a late game, I figure its possible some of you will be staying in the Huntington area.  Here are a few Hotels/Motels I would recommend:

1. The Holliday Inn and Suites in Downtown Huntington (304) 523-8880‎. 800 Third Avenue, Huntington, WV‎  Its within walking distance of "Pulman Plaza" Here is a link to all the things down at Pullman http://www.pullman-square.com/

2. Holliday Inn and Suites "Huntington Mall"....3551 Rt. 60 East, Barboursville, WV‎ - (304) 733-3338‎. This is the newer Hotel in the area and is minutes from the mall, good restraunts among other things.

3. Comfort Innn....249 Mall Rd, Barboursville, WV‎ - (304) 733-2122‎. Nice Hotel located just off the main belt of the Huntington Mall.

There has been a lot of changes in the area. Particularly a lot of things going on around campus. The new "Recreational Center" just across the football stadium is now open. A picture of it is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MUreccenter_crop.jpg

The Football Stadium  upgrades are underway. The football stadiums is getting two new scoreboards, and upgraded audio among other things. They have been working on some plans to build some new skyboxes and possibly a second tier deck on the east side of the stadium.

Tons of other projects going on with upgrades to the Arena in Basketball, a new Baseball stadium, among other things. There has truely been a lot of change since our new AD, Mike Hamrick got on campus. Lots of talk right now with conference expansion etc. Its certainly an exciting time.

I hope many of you make the trip down and spend the day. I'll be pulling for you guys to win every game except for one.    Good Luck this year!



Last Edited: 8/21/2010 12:03:40 AM by WeAreMarshall
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  Message Not Read  RE: Ohio VS, Marshall Game
   Posted: 8/21/2010 4:20:45 PM 
Welcome back We Are Marshall!  

You and I are reverse images of one another -- I root for Marshall in every game, except this one.  As I've often put it, each fall I bleed two shades of green, but my natal DNA is Ohio Green.  On every other day I'm an adopted Son of Marshall.  

Our board had a crash and a great data loss, that's why you had to register.  You'll note that all the old archived files and posts are gone and all of the post counts started back from zero about a month ago.  

Hope to see you on the board throughout the season.  Could you tell me what Marshall site is now the best board to post on.  I used to use the Herd Grapevine site, but it appears to be fairly moribund for the last year or so.  Thanks.

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   Posted: 8/21/2010 9:31:37 PM 
OhioCatFan wrote:
Welcome back We Are Marshall!  

You and I are reverse images of one another -- I root for Marshall in every game, except this one.  As I've often put it, each fall I bleed two shades of green, but my natal DNA is Ohio Green.  On every other day I'm an adopted Son of Marshall.  

Our board had a crash and a great data loss, that's why you had to register.  You'll note that all the old archived files and posts are gone and all of the post counts started back from zero about a month ago.  

Hope to see you on the board throughout the season.  Could you tell me what Marshall site is now the best board to post on.  I used to use the Herd Grapevine site, but it appears to be fairly moribund for the last year or so.  Thanks.



OhioCatFan, good to hear from you. I hope everything is going good. The new board looks great.

 To answer your question about the Marshall boards, I think the best one going is www.herdfans.com   Check it out if you get a chance. Lots of good people over there. The other two that I know of is www.herdnation.com and www.herdhaven.com

So how do you feel about this years team? I'm assuming you guys are favored in the East? How about the West? Is it expected to be somebody other than Central Michigan in the West? What about Temple? They supposed to be even better this year? I hear they have a good running back?

Last Edited: 8/21/2010 10:04:05 PM by WeAreMarshall
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  Message Not Read  RE: Ohio VS, Marshall Game
   Posted: 8/21/2010 10:18:28 PM 
Thanks, WAM (we abbreviate everything on this board) for the sites.  I'll check them out.  Northern Illinois is the consensus favorite in the West.  CMU had a lot of graduation losses, including their star QB Dan LeFevour.  Some are listing them as the team that will most disappoint this year.  But, who knows, these kinds of predictions are often very inaccurate.  The consensus favorites in the East are Temple for first and Ohio for second.  The consensus, of course, can be wrong!  

In terms of conference realignment, what do you think about the possibility of a new conference that would take some teams from the MAC and the eastern most C-USA teams?  This might included Ohio, Marshall, East Carolina, Memphis, Oxford Tech, Toledo, Bowling Green, and maybe either Akron and/or Western Michigan.  There may be some better mixture, but you get the general idea.  This would be a much more geographically compact conference and would provide some real good matchups, IMHO.  Sort of a Mountain East Conference (we'll have important a few foothills to BG! :-).  

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  Message Not Read  RE: Ohio VS, Marshall Game
   Posted: 8/22/2010 1:35:13 AM 
OhioCatFan wrote:
Thanks, WAM (we abbreviate everything on this board) for the sites.  I'll check them out.  Northern Illinois is the consensus favorite in the West.  CMU had a lot of graduation losses, including their star QB Dan LeFevour.  Some are listing them as the team that will most disappoint this year.  But, who knows, these kinds of predictions are often very inaccurate.  The consensus favorites in the East are Temple for first and Ohio for second.  The consensus, of course, can be wrong!  

In terms of conference realignment, what do you think about the possibility of a new conference that would take some teams from the MAC and the eastern most C-USA teams?  This might included Ohio, Marshall, East Carolina, Memphis, Oxford Tech, Toledo, Bowling Green, and maybe either Akron and/or Western Michigan.  There may be some better mixture, but you get the general idea.  This would be a much more geographically compact conference and would provide some real good matchups, IMHO.  Sort of a Mountain East Conference (we'll have important a few foothills to BG! :-).  


Here is what I am hearing here in Huntington based on conference realignement:

This past Thursday the commisioner of the Mountain West Conference and C-USA met in Colorado to discuss a 20 team merger/partnership that would presumably start in 2014. Basically the champion in each Division would matchup in a championship game at the end of the year with the winner getting an automatic BCS bowl bid. Here is a couple links to that:

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/08/19/2414774/mwc-c-usa-talking-about-merged.html

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/ncaa/wires/08/20/2060.ap.fbc.mwc.cusa.talks.0232/


ESPN is rumored to be driving the bus on this. The commisioner of C-USA has supposedly briefed all the AD's in the league about the direction they intend to go. Supposedly something could take place in the next couple weeks. A lot of this hinges on the decision that BYU makes. It seems very possible that the MWC/C-USA merger takes place. If the offer to get a deal done means a spot in a BCS game you can bet for sure that it will get done.

I had heard some other things a while back like CUSA might be looking at adding some more Eastern Teams at the request of schools like ECU and Marshall. Schools that would make traveling a little easier on these schools. I dont know if its true but I've heard that Marshall has recommended Ohio, Miami and Toledo during some talks but that just "hear-say". My guess is that any expansion will be a result of going to a 16 team league that is more regionally friendly for Marshall and ECU. I've heard Temple, Buffalo and Akron also mentioned as possibilities from the MAC. Again, all of this was just rumor talk possibilities that I've heard from various people that may or may not really have any connections. The best advice I can give is to just be prepared the best way possible so that you could be ready if an oppurtunity would arise.

One thing is for sure, I think some big things are in the works. To many changes, and upgrades are going on here for something not to be in motion. We're getting upgrades on the football stadium and the basketball arena as I type. New scoreboards all over campus, new softball field, new rec center, along with plans to expand the football stadium with skyboxes etc. As it stands right now, the stadium will accomodate a hair over 40K but is reportedly expandable to 55K. Here is a link to the stadium upgrades and new proposed baseball stadium and hotel.

http://www.digitalsignageexpo.net/DNNArticleMaster/DNNArticleView/tabid/78/smid/400/ArticleID/3552..

Pictures are here: Just hit the "previous or next" on the top right hand corner to go through all the images. 

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4880863&fbid=420441693109&id=291719428109#!/photo..

Baseball stadium and Hotel:
http://www.sundaygazettemail.com/News/201008190657
 

We just got done securing a 1-1 with Purdue and Louisville. The WVU contract is up in a couple years but supposedly a new deal is being worked out. Our AD said the other night in a special event in Charleston that we would only accept 1-1's from here on out with WVU.


Our AD also recently stated that some big announcements for us are coming in the next 4-5 months. Nobody I've talked to really knows for sure whats coming down the pipe but we should know whats going on by the first of the year. I'm guessing that it has to do with more facility improvements.

Last Edited: 8/22/2010 9:36:27 AM by WeAreMarshall
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  Message Not Read  RE: Ohio VS, Marshall Game
   Posted: 8/22/2010 12:43:10 PM 
Very interesting, WAM.  Put me down as skeptical of the 20 team C-USA-MWC merger.  I suppose it might happen, but this seems like a real stretch and would make travel a whole lot more difficult.   I also think it would be hard to maintain fan interest and develop true rivalries with such a far-flung conference.  I could be all wrong about this, but that's my gut reaction.  It would seem to me that C-USA adding some more eastern teams and realigning divisions would be more likely.  I do think that our current AD (who has W.Va. roots by the way; has family in Morganhole) is keeping up with what's going on with the various conference realignment scenarios and is looking out for Ohio's interest.  I also know that this is a matter of great interest of our university president.  Please keep us posted if you hear anything more concrete on conference realignment and how it might affect Marshall.  I would really like to see Ohio and Marshall as conference mates once again.  It's a great rivalry and the two schools are so closely geographically.

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   Posted: 8/22/2010 1:58:39 PM 
OhioCatFan wrote:
Very interesting, WAM.  Put me down as skeptical of the 20 team C-USA-MWC merger.  I suppose it might happen, but this seems like a real stretch and would make travel a whole lot more difficult.   I also think it would be hard to maintain fan interest and develop true rivalries with such a far-flung conference.  I could be all wrong about this, but that's my gut reaction.  It would seem to me that C-USA adding some more eastern teams and realigning divisions would be more likely.  I do think that our current AD (who has W.Va. roots by the way; has family in Morganhole) is keeping up with what's going on with the various conference realignment scenarios and is looking out for Ohio's interest.  I also know that this is a matter of great interest of our university president.  Please keep us posted if you hear anything more concrete on conference realignment and how it might affect Marshall.  I would really like to see Ohio and Marshall as conference mates once again.  It's a great rivalry and the two schools are so closely geographically.


The first thing I thought about when hearing about this was the travel involved which made me skeptical also. However after talking to several people about it, the way I understand it now is that we would do our normal thing in CUSA like we've always been doing with the exception playing a championship game between the CUSA and MWC champion which would determine the automatic BCS bid. In oher words there would be very little "cross division" games being played. There had been some other rumors flying that Tulane and UAB would be forced out and would likely land in the Sunbelt to get CUSA to a 10 team league. I've also heard that to make the transition more geographically correct, TCU would come over to CUSA in a swap for UTep. With Utah leaving the MWC and possibley BYU that would give each division 10 teams. Bascially 9 conference football games, with the champion of each division meeting in the championship for the BCS bowl. Essentially it would look like this on paper:

East:

1. Houston
2. TCU
3. East Carolina
4. Marshall
5. Memphis
6. Southern Miss
7. Rice
8. SMU
9. Tulsa
10. UCF

West:

1. UTep
2. Air Force
3. Colorado St.
4. New Mexico
5. San Diego St.
6. UNLV
7. Boise St.
8. Fresno St.
9. Nevada
10. BYU or Wyoming


If I here of any devolpments I'll let you know. And I agree I like the friendly rivalry between Ohio and Marshall. It goes back a long way. Who knows, maybe one day we'll be conference mates again, if not then I'm confident  that the home and home series will continue. I think its a good game with good regional appeal.
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   Posted: 8/22/2010 5:23:46 PM 
WeAreMarshall wrote:
OhioCatFan wrote:
Thanks, WAM (we abbreviate everything on this board) for the sites.  I'll check them out.  Northern Illinois is the consensus favorite in the West.  CMU had a lot of graduation losses, including their star QB Dan LeFevour.  Some are listing them as the team that will most disappoint this year.  But, who knows, these kinds of predictions are often very inaccurate.  The consensus favorites in the East are Temple for first and Ohio for second.  The consensus, of course, can be wrong!  

In terms of conference realignment, what do you think about the possibility of a new conference that would take some teams from the MAC and the eastern most C-USA teams?  This might included Ohio, Marshall, East Carolina, Memphis, Oxford Tech, Toledo, Bowling Green, and maybe either Akron and/or Western Michigan.  There may be some better mixture, but you get the general idea.  This would be a much more geographically compact conference and would provide some real good matchups, IMHO.  Sort of a Mountain East Conference (we'll have important a few foothills to BG! :-).  


ESPN is rumored to be driving the bus on this.



Am I the only one who has a problem with this?
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   Posted: 8/22/2010 6:22:36 PM 
Hey WAM....who's your starting QB?

What happened to the transfer QB from Clemson?
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   Posted: 8/22/2010 7:10:47 PM 
I am not WAM, but the transfer from  Clemson (Willey Korn) left and enrolled at North Greenville College a Div II program. I believe he was looking into playing for the Bobcats before he went to The Herd? Korn ended up as the 4th string QB after the first "adjustment" of the talent ratings for the QB ratings. Korn wants to be QB so he left Marshall with the hope of playing QB at another school. I must admit, I was surprised by the Korn situation.


http://www.willykorn.org/reese.php

Right now the leading QB for The Herd is Anderson, but who knows who will be the QB after the first two games?



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   Posted: 8/22/2010 7:15:56 PM 
WeAreMarshall wrote:
OhioCatFan wrote:
Very interesting, WAM.  Put me down as skeptical of the 20 team C-USA-MWC merger.  I suppose it might happen, but this seems like a real stretch and would make travel a whole lot more difficult.   I also think it would be hard to maintain fan interest and develop true rivalries with such a far-flung conference.  I could be all wrong about this, but that's my gut reaction.  It would seem to me that C-USA adding some more eastern teams and realigning divisions would be more likely.  I do think that our current AD (who has W.Va. roots by the way; has family in Morganhole) is keeping up with what's going on with the various conference realignment scenarios and is looking out for Ohio's interest.  I also know that this is a matter of great interest of our university president.  Please keep us posted if you hear anything more concrete on conference realignment and how it might affect Marshall.  I would really like to see Ohio and Marshall as conference mates once again.  It's a great rivalry and the two schools are so closely geographically.


The first thing I thought about when hearing about this was the travel involved which made me skeptical also. However after talking to several people about it, the way I understand it now is that we would do our normal thing in CUSA like we've always been doing with the exception playing a championship game between the CUSA and MWC champion which would determine the automatic BCS bid. In oher words there would be very little "cross division" games being played. There had been some other rumors flying that Tulane and UAB would be forced out and would likely land in the Sunbelt to get CUSA to a 10 team league. I've also heard that to make the transition more geographically correct, TCU would come over to CUSA in a swap for UTep. With Utah leaving the MWC and possibley BYU that would give each division 10 teams. Bascially 9 conference football games, with the champion of each division meeting in the championship for the BCS bowl. Essentially it would look like this on paper:

East:

1. Houston
2. TCU
3. East Carolina
4. Marshall
5. Memphis
6. Southern Miss
7. Rice
8. SMU
9. Tulsa
10. UCF

West:

1. UTep
2. Air Force
3. Colorado St.
4. New Mexico
5. San Diego St.
6. UNLV
7. Boise St.
8. Fresno St.
9. Nevada
10. BYU or Wyoming


If I here of any devolpments I'll let you know. And I agree I like the friendly rivalry between Ohio and Marshall. It goes back a long way. Who knows, maybe one day we'll be conference mates again, if not then I'm confident  that the home and home series will continue. I think its a good game with good regional appeal.


Don't look for a "merger" between the WAC and CUSA. Do look for "cooperation" between the conferences to place their top teams in a BCS bowl.


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   Posted: 8/22/2010 8:49:53 PM 
Doc Bobcat wrote:
Hey WAM....who's your starting QB?

What happened to the transfer QB from Clemson?


Like Flat tire said, he move on to another school to play QB. Basically what happened is we had a 4 horse race for the QB  position and Willy ended up being the 4th guy overall. Seemed like a really good kid. Evidently the shoulder injury he had at Clemson had a bigger impact on his arm strength then some had imagined. He moved over to the Defense for a couple days but was buried probably 3rd or 4th deep on that side also so he decided to move to a D2 school that needed a QB so he could play right away. I hope he does well and I hate it for him that it didnt work out here. If he had 3-4 years to play he might have stayed and tried to work it out but he only has two years remaining.

At this point, its still up in the air as to whom our starter will be. Right now Brian Anderson, Eddie Sullivan and AJ Graham are getting all the snaps. Sullivan is a true Freshman who is displaying huge ability. Graham is a red-shirt freshmand that was the "Mr. Football" in the state of Florida. He has huge upside and has really started to come on as of late. It wouldnt surprise me to see Anderson start since he is a Senior but make no mistake Graham and or Sullivan will be getting a lot of snaps as well. Both are explosive and have cannons for an arm. Its possible that Sullivan will red-shirt if Graham moves ahead of him and plays well but Sullivan is truely a special talent.
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   Posted: 8/23/2010 12:11:01 AM 

Why any school would want to be part of a 10-team division is a trifle puzzling.  It's tough enough winning a division title in a 6-team division. 

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   Posted: 8/23/2010 7:37:20 AM 
Mike Johnson wrote:

Why any school would want to be part of a 10-team division is a trifle puzzling.  It's tough enough winning a division title in a 6-team division. 



I really don't see that going down either.

It's possible the conferences would make an alignment for the champions to play each other for a spot in the BCS, but I really don't see a merger like that happening. It all sounds pretty far-fetched.
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Due to finances, MAC schools are not well positioned to be attractive candidates for other conferences. 
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   Posted: 8/23/2010 10:50:15 AM 
Jeff McKinney wrote:

Due to finances, MAC schools are not well positioned to be attractive candidates for other conferences. 



Taring with a rather broad brush stroke aren't we?

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   Posted: 8/23/2010 12:04:19 PM 
Mike Johnson wrote:

Why any school would want to be part of a 10-team division is a trifle puzzling.  It's tough enough winning a division title in a 6-team division. 



You make a good point but it really wouldnt be any different for us with the exception of one game. In our setup we play every team once in our division and then have three cross division games for a total of 8 conference games anyway. Basically in a 10 team league we would only be playing one more conference game. Instead of playing four "out of conference" games we'll be limited to three that we can play. Ohio, WVU and then whoever.
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OhioCatFan wrote:
Jeff McKinney wrote:

Due to finances, MAC schools are not well positioned to be attractive candidates for other conferences. 



Taring with a rather broad brush stroke aren't we?


Out of curiosity OCF, do you think we are well positioned financially to make a jump to another conference?

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   Posted: 8/23/2010 12:56:14 PM 
John C. Wanamaker wrote:
OhioCatFan wrote:
Jeff McKinney wrote:

Due to finances, MAC schools are not well positioned to be attractive candidates for other conferences. 



Taring with a rather broad brush stroke aren't we?


Out of curiosity OCF, do you think we are well positioned financially to make a jump to another conference?


That's not the question, JCW.  But, I'll answer it anyway: Right now we are not, but I've learned never to prejudge the future.  Yes, I did learn a few of the finer points of English usage from a certain former catcher for the N.Y. Yankees!

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   Posted: 8/23/2010 1:20:23 PM 
Was just curious OCF.  Early word is we are facing 18-20 Million more in cuts in the coming year, with a formal announcement come Christmas time.

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   Posted: 8/23/2010 3:04:32 PM 
Here is a link to the Herdnation.com Vistor's Guide.

marshall.rivals.com/showmsg.asp

Some pics of the new scoreboards going in.
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   Posted: 8/23/2010 3:42:56 PM 
MUTeke wrote:
Here is a link to the Herdnation.com Vistor's Guide.

marshall.rivals.com/showmsg.asp

Some pics of the new scoreboards going in.





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  Message Not Read  RE: Ohio VS, Marshall Game
   Posted: 8/23/2010 4:32:44 PM 
Brian Smith wrote:
MUTeke wrote:
Here is a link to the Herdnation.com Vistor's Guide.

marshall.rivals.com/showmsg.asp

Some pics of the new scoreboards going in.





No need to give us the censored version. We're all adults here.


THANK YOU!!! I couldn't think of the perfect joke, but you nailed it. I don't understand the scoreboard "covering" the M - looks awkward.
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Jughead
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  Message Not Read  RE: Ohio VS, Marshall Game
   Posted: 8/23/2010 8:08:31 PM 
Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:
I don't understand the scoreboard "covering" the M - looks awkward.


I think I understand.  To me, it appears that the video will be used for the National Anthem, some opening video package, and possibly instant replays.  When those are not being shown, they possibly could put this logo

on the scoreboard.  It's seems like an great idea at first, but I can see at least 2 potential flaws. 

First, the video display itself does not look as if it takes up the full screen from left to right. For instance, the American flag listed above is not spread all the way across. 

What happens when the color begins to fade?

The Herd better hope that you can see the screen from extreme angles as well, or else it will not look good on them (the designer or designers). That seems to be a flaw with these large screens. Unless they are plasma based, you can only see them from a limited field of view.

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John C. Wanamaker
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  Message Not Read  RE: Ohio VS, Marshall Game
   Posted: 8/23/2010 8:51:52 PM 
I bet when the hill is full you won't even be able to see that from the playing field....Oh wait that's our scoreboard and clock!  never mind.

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