Athlon predicts Marshall goes 5-7 (4-4)

[Chris McLaughlin]

https://athlonsports.com/college-football/conference-usa-football-2017-predictions

East Division
Rank Team Projected C-USA Record Projected Overall Record
1 WKU 6-2 9-4
2 MTSU 6-2 7-5
3 Old Dominion 5-3 7-5
4 FAU 4-4 6-6
5 Marshall 4-4 5-7
6 FIU 4-4 5-7
7 Charlotte 1-7 3-9

West Division
Rank Team Projected C-USA Record Projected Overall Record
1 Louisiana Tech 6-2 9-4
2 Southern Miss 5-3 7-5
3 UTSA 5-3 7-5
4 North Texas 3-5 5-7
5 Rice 3-5 3-9
6 UTEP 3-5 3-9
7 UAB 1-7 3-9

La Tech over WKU in the conference championship game.

Two of the three analysts doing the projections pick us as the hardest team to evaluate. I agree with that 100%.

 

[old buzzard]

Pre-season projections are worthless IMHO. How can anyone accurately predict the total W-L's for an entire season before any team has even played a game?.......but there are some who eat that stuff up.

 

[mlblack16.]

Another reason why I contest that preseason SOS are also bullshit. They're just a prediction, nothing more.

 

[ohio herd]

The best way we can get rid of such bad press is to win. This season is going to be a fun one. First time in years I have no idea what to expect!

 

[thundermax]

I think we will do far better than 5-7. But if we go 5-7 someone needs to have a conversation. Go Herd 9-3

 

[The Real SamC]

Most of those preseason mag are written by "freelance" (which means unemployed) writers. They can talk about the top 30 or so teams, but after that they just toss in a few names they found reading the local paper or fan websites and predict the teams to do about what they did the year before. Most of these geniuses could not tell you where Marshall, or any other G5 team where the school name does not give it away, is even located.

 

[herdit44]

Most of those preseason mag are written by "freelance" (which means unemployed) writers. They can talk about the top 30 or so teams, but after that they just toss in a few names they found reading the local paper or fan websites and predict the teams to do about what they did the year before. Most of these geniuses could not tell you where Marshall, or any other G5 team where the school name does not give it away, is even located.

are you ever right about anything?

 

[The Real SamC]

So he lives in his mom's basement and has a web profile. I could say I was an heir to the Romanian throne on my facebook profile, so what? The fact that his ONLY "job" is writing for an obscure website/magazine proves my point.

 

[Herdmeister]

Most of those preseason mag are written by "freelance" (which means unemployed) writers. They can talk about the top 30 or so teams, but after that they just toss in a few names they found reading the local paper or fan websites and predict the teams to do about what they did the year before. Most of these geniuses could not tell you where Marshall, or any other G5 team where the school name does not give it away, is even located.

Actually, many times they are written by a beat writer for a team in the league or from a reputable writer in the area of the conference location geographically. Yes, they may be freelance but they are usually employed by a newspaper somewhere.
When I was a writer many years ago, our associate sports editor did conference pre-saeson stories for Street and Smith. Back in the day that was THE bible of pre-season magazines both football and basketball.

 

[Dreh_Nagi_HC_IM]

So he lives in his mom's basement and has a web profile. I could say I was an heir to the Romanian throne on my facebook profile, so what? The fact that his ONLY "job" is writing for an obscure website/magazine proves my point.

Since you're obviously smarter than him, how would you rank the teams, genius? I'm guessing you're up on C-USA football, and have a decent idea as to where each team is located. You rank them by record, and then we can see who did a better job, YOU (the genius), or the guy that does this for a living.

 

[MarshallManiac]

Sounds like a pretty good prediction to me.

 

[RhinoD]

I would say that 8-4 is realistic, but that all depends on line play (both sides of the ball)... 5-7 should be the worst case scenario... My personal prediction is 7-5 (5-3 in CUSA).

 

[Marine03]

I think we will do far better than 5-7. But if we go 5-7 someone needs to have a conversation. Go Herd 9-3

The conversation should be short and one sided. "Doc you're fired, good luck," is all that should be said

 

[TwolfHerdfan]

6-6.

 

[HubbMU]

The best way we can get rid of such bad press is to win.

This. We win and everything else takes care of itself. /oversimplifications lol