5 worst losses of the 21st century....

[W-S HerdFan]

In no particular order:
2020 Rice
2019 @ Charlotte
2016 Charlotte
2000(?) @ Toledo
2016 Akron
There are many candidates! Who makes your list?

 

[muthed]

In no particular order:
2020 Rice
2019 @ Charlotte
2016 Charlotte
2000(?) @ Toledo
2016 Akron
There are many candidates! Who makes your list?

You pretty well hit the nail on the head

 

[Chris McLaughlin]

Are we really going to act like the New Hampshire loss didn’t happen?

 

[W-S HerdFan]

Chris - You are right! Maybe I had blotted that one out of my hard drive. During the Bernie Morris era, right?

 

[herdfan429]

WKU 2014

 

[MichiganHerd]

I would have to go with a write-in vote for blowing the home game with WVU.

I'm guessing that had to be top five worst losses, and certainly one of the most painful of all time. Granted, they were huge underdogs, but when you have the game basically won, those tend to cut the deepest.

 

[W-S HerdFan]

I would have to go with a write-in vote for blowing the home game with WVU.

I'm guessing that had to be top five worst losses, and certainly one of the most painful of all time. Granted, they were huge underdogs, but when you have the game basically won, those tend to cut the deepest.

Meech - Absolutely. Ppl who were in attendance were devastated. I was watching on TV and could feel the mo switching.....dreaded feeling!!

 

[W-S HerdFan]

Revised:
1. WVU 2011
2. New Hampshire
3. WKU
4.
5.

Cincy was just a complete ass-kicking. I don’t know if it belongs here, but it was over so quickly...

 

[rvntx]

Revised:
1. WVU 2011
2. New Hampshire
3. WKU
4.
5.

Cincy was just a complete ass-kicking. I don’t know if it belongs here, but it was over so quickly...

Easily the Bowl loss in Fort Worth to Cincinnati! The worse effort from a Herd team I had ever witnessed. That includes during the long losing streak during the 70’s and early 80’s....

 

[W-S HerdFan]

Easily the Bowl loss in Fort Worth to Cincinnati! The worse effort from a Herd team I had ever witnessed. That includes during the long losing streak during the 70’s and early 80’s....

Yep. Team didn’t care, cold as hell, not the way the Pruitt era should have ended...

 

[muthed]

Easily the Bowl loss in Fort Worth to Cincinnati! The worse effort from a Herd team I had ever witnessed. That includes during the long losing streak during the 70’s and early 80’s....

You apparently weren't at the 2020 Rice game.

 

[caliherd]

You apparently weren't at the 2020 Rice game.

Or the Cincinnati game or the New Hampshire game or a myriad of other games that have been played since that game.

 

[extragreen]

The #1 football loss is when MU messed up and let Pruett leave without doing everything they possibly could to keep him here.

 

[i am herdman]

The #1 football loss is when MU messed up and let Pruett leave without doing everything they possibly could to keep him here.

Agreed. Dumbest thing Marshall University has ever done and whoever let that happen is an IDIOT!

 

[muthed]

The #1 football loss is when MU messed up and let Pruett leave without doing everything they possibly could to keep him here.

Damn Greed. Finally something you and I agree on.

 

[i am herdman]

Damn Greed. Finally something you and I agree on.

He is an A poster in this forum. Not sure about other places 🤔😕

 

[herdfan429]

The #1 football loss is when MU messed up and let Pruett QUIT without doing everything they possibly could to keep him here.

FIFY

 

[TwolfHerdfan]

K- State here. Snyder’s major brain fart. Play calling that last drive.

 

[TwolfHerdfan]

A few on Pruett, a few on Snyder. Most on Doc - against weaker competition for the most part.

 

[sluggo72]

The #1 football loss is when MU messed up and let Pruett leave without doing everything they possibly could to keep him here.

Huh? The man was under contract and quit on his team

 

[W-S HerdFan]

K-State - Skinner is driving for the winning score, inside the 15. Could have called a time out....or spiked it......but as I recall he threw a pick. Ballgame

 

[TwolfHerdfan]

Huh? The man was under contract and quit on his team

According to Huff, sounds like Doc and staff quit on the team more than a few games.
No consistency or preparation

 

[19MU88]

K-State - Skinner is driving for the winning score, inside the 15. Could have called a time out....or spiked it......but as I recall he threw a pick. Ballgame

We were on the 21.

 

[W-S HerdFan]

19MU88 - thanks. While we’re at it, what was the down & distance? I am pretty sure it wasn’t 4th down....

 

[ilmherdfan]

It wasn’t 4th down. I was sitting right there. As I recall we just had to spike it or throw it away so we could try to kick a field goal.

 

[sluggo72]

According to Huff, sounds like Doc and staff quit on the team more than a few games.
No consistency or preparation

Huh? How is that relevant to the conversation at hand?

 

[Herdmeister]

19MU88 - thanks. While we’re at it, what was the down & distance? I am pretty sure it wasn’t 4th down....

Correct

 

[19MU88]

It wasn’t 4th down. I was sitting right there. As I recall we just had to spike it or throw it away so we could try to kick a field goal.

it was first down I'm pretty sure. We had just completed a 32 yard pass to Hargrove.

 

[TwolfHerdfan]

Huh? How is that relevant to the conversation at hand?

You were speaking of how Pruett quit on the team. Just saying that according to what Huff has been saying, seems like our last staff did as well during certain points of the season. Pruett wasn’t an angel but the man could coach circles around anyone we have had. I just hope Huff can get us over the average/ mediocre hump we’ve been stuck at for 15 years.

 

[Aaron Perkins]

I sat in the stadium against New Hampshire until the lights were off, for real. I looked at the top of the bleachers and truly wondered what it would feel like if i hurled my body over the edge. Lucky for you guys, the tequila had my legs too tired to even walk up the bleachers to take a peak.

But, as bad as that day was, and as bad as 2014 was...nothing, and I mean NOTHING matches that loss in 2010 against that crap hole institution north of us.

Although, i still think the most program crippling loss since 1990 was the road loss at Bowling Green in 1998. That one day, prevented us from being what Boise is right now.

 

[W-S HerdFan]

Aaron - wow. You’ve got me beat!! I vote you into the Pantheon of “die”hard Herd fans. Seriously!
My in-person worst loss to stomach was @ NC State in (I believe) ‘91. Scored late 4th to go up vs AP #12 Wolfpack. They score twice in the last 2 mins, including the best onside kick bounce in the history of college football, + a 4th & 10 incompletion that was followed by a 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi pass interference flag to extend their game winning drive and win by 1 or 2 pts. My cousin & I drove back to Winston; not a word was spoken!!

 

[Aaron Perkins]

I remember where I was for that loss. That was brutal.

Your drive home was similar to my drive home from BG. No words were said. No bathroom stops were made. No fast food was obtained. The other two guys in my car, were not very happy, but they knew not to talk!

 

[sluggo72]

You were speaking of how Pruett quit on the team. Just saying that according to what Huff has been saying, seems like our last staff did as well during certain points of the season. Pruett wasn’t an angel but the man could coach circles around anyone we have had. I just hope Huff can get us over the average/ mediocre hump we’ve been stuck at for 15 years.

We have concrete evidence on BP quitting on his team. There is no concrete evidence of Doc doing that. Besides the conversation was about MU doing what it needed to do to keep BP. They had it was BP that didn’t hold up his end of the deal

 

[muthed]

We have concrete evidence on BP quitting on his team. There is no concrete evidence of Doc doing that. Besides the conversation was about MU doing what it needed to do to keep BP. They had it was BP that didn’t hold up his end of the deal

Don't need concrete evidence of Doc quitting on his team, just a good set of eyes.

 

[oldeherd]

Don't need concrete evidence of Doc quitting on his team, just a good set of eyes.

Doc just had too much of that Don Nehlen ultra conservative mindset ingrained in his coaching psyche/philosophy!! Could never overcome it during his MU tenure. Consequently, we got use to his punts from the opponent's 30, 35 yard line; his failure to "go for the Jugular" when he had opponents down and had the opportunity to put them away, and the like. Letting the opponents maintain the will to win, stay in the game, etc., ultimately was a key factor in Doc's demise at MU, IMO!

 

[mlblack16.]

Doc just had too much of that Don Nehlen ultra conservative mindset ingrained in his coaching psyche/philosophy!! Could never overcome it during his MU tenure. Consequently, we got use to his punts from the opponent's 30, 35 yard line; his failure to "go for the Jugular" when he had opponents down and had the opportunity to put them away, and the like. Letting the opponents maintain the will to win, stay in the game, etc., ultimately was a key factor in Doc's demise at MU, IMO!

Well, that and he couldn't coach worth a shit.

 

[marshallsig]

2004 Akron

 

[Tonycried2]

Chris - You are right! Maybe I had blotted that one out of my hard drive. During the Bernie Morris era, right?

Bernie was our starting QB that season but he sat out the New Hampshire debacle due to to injury, we played Brian Anderson as a Frosh in that tilt!

 

[Tonycried2]

K- State here. Snyder’s major brain fart. Play calling that last drive.

True and so are the later posts...but no lock Ian O'Connor would have made the kick, he had a cannon for a leg but very inaccurate, missed some huge kicks for us, OSU comes to mind.

 

[Marco93]

I actually think the 2004 loss to Akron was one of the worse. Riding a 5 game win streak, on ESPN 2, playing for another conference East championship, and we blow a 21 point lead late in the 3rd quarter. Seemed to be the beginning of us losing the aurora around the program.