But why?
- Thread starter Marine03
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I choose to be happy with the football team as long as they are putting forth a good effort unlike the basketball team is doing.I prefer not to make myself miserable comparing us to teams that played two decades ago.I wish we could duplicate that record as well ,but I do not see that happening.
Only speaking for my own self but they dont hang banners and order rings for regular season wins.....
Damn, if we’d have just made that shot back in 1946, we could have had back to back National Titles.
Unless I missed your point...WHY would Darnell WRIGHT enroll at Marshall when he will play in front of 100,000 + fans at Tenn and perform in the SEC?
HerdZilla22 in Charlotte
I hope I will end up eating crow...but I am not impressed nor do I believe Green is The Herd's future or present (for that matter) to get Marshall to & WIN a CUSA football title game.
HerdZilla22 in Charlotte
We once had a football coach that said....."WE PLAY FOR CHAMPIONSHIPS!"......and Marshall enjoyed some of the best football in America and sent several guys to the Pros each year. Not the case since BP was replaced by Snyder & Holiday....
One CUSA Title under Doc (2010---Present). The Herd seems to lose games they should not (ie...MTSU on a Friday night last season or our annual loss to So Miss)...derailed any hopes of playing for "The Belt."
Herdzilla22 in Charlotte
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AGREE with your comments. Marshall is the name-brand school of any current CUSA members--- and they should be "in the hunt & dominating" CUSA FOOTBALL annually. Nothing less is acceptable!
The closest member in football success to Marshall....... is So. Mississippi. Some of the schools (ODU -2012 & Charlotte-2015) were not Division 1 football members and UAB & the Florida directional schools were second thoughts! Rice had some football history, however, they had NOT been to a bowl game since 1961 when they received an invitation in 2006...ending the second-longest bowl drought in the country at the time.
NO EXCUSE for Marshall not being in the Title Game every year....Strong recruiting base in Florida aided by Props.
HerdZilla22
I stated a fact sorry if that bothers you. I’m from a generation where a differing opinion doesn’t hurt one’s feelings
I agree. A true fan calls out the BS. Marshall Football is an underachieving program.
That's called winning the battle, but not the war.
And Doc's winning percentage has been discussed in detail on here. Outside of a very respectable bowl record, most of Doc's wins have been against teams which finished with losing records.
The way the BB team is playing ,we are now the worst team in the conference.
You know it’s bad when the worlds best Marshall basketball fan, herdmeister, says a women’s team would give us trouble
Give it a rest you’ve made yourself look clueless enough already
Pruett also beat good teams and dominated the conference.
Pruett won more championships and beat better teams.
WRONG WRONG WRONG......Pruett's wins were dominated with teams with winning records in 1-AA, and the transition to 1-A (MAC Championships)...do you recall the 15-0 season and a NATIONAL ranking at #10?
You need to do better research before "beating your drums." Are you related to the crazy Cortez women from NY---that wants to eliminate AIRPLANES?
HerdZilla22 in Charlotte
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I don't like Pruett whatsoever, but you spelled his name WRONG WRONG WRONG.
Rejected JOSH.... that hurts coming from your Non-JRN writing ass! I'm sure PRUETT loses sleep that the Great Josh does not like him.
You are deplorable!
Gary Sweeney in Charlotte (Page Pitt School of JRN & Mass Communications (1970)
I just returned from 35 laps [in rain] to wear off my Josh frustrations. Thanks Chris for your suggestions....
HerdZilla22 In Charlotte
We'll see. Green has the highest ceiling of any QB we have signed during the Doc Era and that includes Cato and Litton.
I’d disagree.
You give me the choice between Litton and Green out of HS, not knowing what we know now, and I’d take Litton all day every day.
It's because Litton sold him a very cheap set of stolen golf clubs.
I think Green can be Cato II if he works at it. Litton just never put the work in to be good. At least good enough to win games for us in the clutch.
I just hadn’t had time to respond.
The guy prospered off Donnan’s foundation and players (for the most part).
Did he win games? Sure he did, but he also did so with what was likely a D1 roster in D2 for the most part. With that said, I don’t recall schools lining up to steal him away from Marshall following his success here (which is something you all constantly preach about Doc). Why was that? Could it have been that they were aware of the cheating he was doing?
Then, he left the program in arguably the worst shape it’s been in since the late 80’s. I’d argue that Snyder had a bigger mess to clean up than Doc did (which was still a disaster when you look at the program as a whole).
Beyond all of that, he topped it off by coordinating an attempted mutiny of the program as well as the whole “96 team was treated wrong” BS.
So yeah, you could say that I don’t care for the guy even though I enjoyed the 90’s.
Well, to say you don't like a guy are pretty strong words. I thought maybe he had done something personal to you.
The records speak for themselves and I believe he did have a job offer at Houston. Marshall never played D2. And, I am not sure how he road Donnan's coat tails after year 4. Frankly, he had some really good teams. Won more championships and more games. I don't recall suffering too many humiliating home losses either.
But, oh well. I think you are more caught up in the fact people compare Doc to him.
I-AA is what I meant, but you knew that.
I didn’t care for Pruett long before Doc was around so that really has nothing to do with it.
What? Look at his record while in the MAC from 1997-2003. That was 1-A vs. 1-A. You act like his success was only in 1-AA. Completely inaccurate. And it wasn't like he just dominated the MAC. He beat Clemson, South Carolina, Louisville, Cinci, BYU, and was competitive against UNC, Michigan State, wvu, etc.
You simply don't know what you are talking about.
The head coaching salary discrepancy between schools wasn't as big then as it is now. He had plenty of opportunities to leave for more money, but he wasn't going to leave for a small increase, and that is all the market was at that point.
Then, Houston offered him a $1 million annual salary in 1999. Want to know how big of a deal a $1 million annual salary was for a college head coach in 1999? In 1999, the same year Pruett was offered $1 million, Bob Stoops was hired at OKLAHOMA . . . for $700,000. Pruett was offered 43% more than Oklahoma's head coach was making!
Want to know how big of a deal a $1 million salary was? The following year, while Stoops was killing it on the field on the way to the national title game, Oklahoma doubled his salary to $1.4 million. That made Stoops the third highest paid coach in the country.
Four years later, in 2004, the salaries started to surge with 23 head coaches making $1 million or more per year.
Pruett wasn’t alone in that mutiny but somehow you fail to always mention that.
This thread is a perfect example of why I rarely visit this board anymore, nothing by whining, complaining and insulting others who have a different opinion.
