Clearly you don't know what mediocrity nor a double standard is.
Doc (starting from the wreckage that Satan's Vile Servant KO Marcum and his boy Suntan Man left behind) :
5-7, playing 2 P5 teams
7-6 , playing 2 P5 teams, bowl win
5-7, playing 2 P5 teams
10-4, division champion, playing 2 P5 teams, beating one, bowl win
13-1 , conference champion, bowl win
10-3, beat P5 team, bowl win versus a team from the (in other's opinion) awesome THE AMERICAN!!!!
3-9, off year
8-5, playing a P5 team, beat a team from THE AMERICAN!!!!!!!, bowl win
Dan:
11-21, zero wins over non one-bid league teams, no tournament
17-16, zero wins over non one-bid league teams, no tournament
20-15, zero wins over non one-bid league teams, no tournament
currently 8-3, no wins over non one-bid league teams, everybody already saying "next year" (which is the same thing being said about Doc, BTW), no tournament is a certainty this year
is mediocre. And this is a double standard.
Hey, I remember what Marshall basketball used to be. I do. But some the whole "try harder than the next guy" idea and the "I can win with the WV all-stars" (MEMO: the coalfields have HALF the population they used to as people that care about their families have moved away to find work) idea, does not work. It just does not. We are playing Marshall's schedule with Concord's team.
I also remember what Marshall football used to be in the same era. Some of you have forgotten.
15-15, zero signature wins, no tournament. And that is acceptable, and the idea that it is acceptable is sad.
I see what he's saying.
Doc, being an outsider and a wvu guy, was not given much slack when it came to making the team better. In many ways, he did and has made them better...certainly better than Snyder did (and lord knows, we don't need to go into details about it).
When Doc and the team didn't look as good as they were expected to be (expected meaning, snap your fingers and your uniforms come on, not dropping any passes and every play is a first down) people began to grumble and find ways to discredit Doc as being a solid coach. It got so bad to the point that many just convinced themselves that he is a terrible coach...and began to use the records of opponents as leverage to justify this.
When Doc has a legitimate claim to something like, "the team is young" people feel that is not an excuse to be using and automatically ignore it (even if it is true).
Now, enter Dan...
Being a Marshall guy and having played for Marshall, everyone loves him. While many wanted his brother, they are totally cool with him instead (frankly, his brother probably woulda gone to the NBA anyway).
He goes out and gets people that are totally not what we're all used to seeing...smaller faster guys who shoot 3's...very European-like.
But, people say, "It's all part of his grand plan to make Marshall amazing!" Despite having a pretty terrible record.
But hey, "He's re-building, it takes time, be patient!!!!!"
So far, the basketball team is...better than before but honestly not to the level everyone really thought they should be.
However, instead of getting critical, people begin to do the opposite of Doc, they invent ways to give Dan a pass and shrug off the whole, "he's not a good coach" bit, despite having some evidence of it.
Also now, the whole, "we're a young team" is becoming more used to explain why our team is, in fact, not young but loses games.
Thing is, Doc and Dan really aren't that different, but perception of them, is night and day different.
Dan makes the conference finals and loses, Doc does the same thing, but one is considered an achievement and the other is considered a failure.
People forget Doc had MU in the conference title game in year...4? In football, with recruiting a whole class and everything, not easy to do. Dan got us there pretty quickly too, year 2, but one was considered a bust and the other considered an accomplishment. Forgetting that Dan's predecessor go us there as well...back when the conference was actually pretty tough. In fact, he had the most success of any coach for quite a while.
Why is this? Why is it that Dan gets more of a pass for something that he could actually do in faster time than what Doc has been doing? MU has always been in the hunt for the division in football. 2016 and like his first 2 years were really times when we weren't...but that's actually not a bad thing at all.
Dan got us to the finals 1 time and lost. Both coaches have been here since the conference was gutted.
So why does Dan get a mulligan? Is it because he's an MU guy? I'm starting to think it is...
Why else does one demand something be "more exciting" like the football team, despite winning, and accept "more exciting" as the norm for basketball despite losing?
Funny how MU fans complain about the "good ole boy network" yet that is exactly what they seem to be doing to their program coaches.