Mike Hamrick Tweets
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I truly don't think I've ever read anything like that. He literally flipped off what, 80% of his fans in a few sentences. Wow!
MH tweets "We'll tune out the negative people. Those people aren't financial supporters and aren't Big Green members." How the hell do you know that Mike? Are you simply trying to pull a Lee Moon (killed basketball support for years) and run the fan base off? You need to apologize.
Does he actually think that fans who simply come to games are not "financially supporting" the programs? Where does Marshall find these idiots to "lead" their programs?
Maybe I should drop the BG and Vision Campaign since I'm feeling a little negative. I don't want to make him a liar.
As an outsider, it's amazing how quickly things are imploding with your football program. You guys need a win in a bad way, asap.
This seems to be the preferred way to treat Marshall fans and supporters who turn out no matter what and our athletic director decides the appropriate course of action is to insult the base! Give me a break. MH wake up and tweet an apology.
It's because there arent any negative comments only truthful comments. Everything he said is true.
Guys I said beginning of season we were young , and that hurts , but devision has crept onto this team , those 2 things are hurting us badly.
Still I'll take Marshall football any day of over any other program. It's my school and if he don't win at least we aren't a national embarrassment burning couches and beating expectant mother's in a drunken rage over losing or beating Rutgers or something.
He is right 3 great 10 win seasons and we are down this year. Chill out its going to improve.
Guys I said beginning of season we were young , and that hurts , but devision has crept onto this team , those 2 things are hurting us badly.
Still I'll take Marshall football any day of over any other program. It's my school and if he don't win at least we aren't a national embarrassment burning couches and beating expectant mother's in a drunken rage over losing or beating Rutgers or something.
He is right 3 great 10 win seasons and we are down this year. Chill out its going to improve.
It wasn't his Twitter. It was the @herdzone account tweeting his quotes from the coaches show.
The people MH is talking about are the old fogies of Huntington who treat Marshall as some kind of public utiltiy. They EXPECT MU to be great in sports and great in academics, but have never given 10 cents to either the Big Green of the Foundation. These are the people that bitch and whine because a game is scheduled opposite some midget league game or say its too cold or too hot or don't like beer or blah, blah, blah, on and on.
Fact is we have, I would guess, I really don't know, maybe 30K unsold tickets between our remaining 2 games. And no real reason to buy one because the aftermarket is selling them below value. That is a big hole in our budget. And the stated goal in basketball is to be "pretty good, maybe finish 3rd or 4th". That does not really move the box office over there either.
And we have the self appointed out there wanting to fire a coach that has had 3 10 win season in the last 4 years. And we have the self appointed out there that want to join the MAC, or this THE AMERICAN!!!!!!!!! non-thing, or go back to I-AA. And we have the self-appointed out there, most of whom could not diagram a basic pass play, that have all sorts of coaching advice. And, worst of all, the delusional and self-appointed out there that think that all you have to do is pull a van up in Miami with Marshall on the side and watch the fight and let whoever wins get on.
We are having a CRAP year. Next year does not look much better, AND MH has no home step-up game to sell. Basketball is attempting to be "pretty good, not bad, maybe 3rd". The state is cutting the academic budget to the core and the war on coal is going to make today look like the good ole days 2 or 3 years from now. Give to the BG and the Foundation anyway. Come to the games anyway.
Go Herd.
Fact is we have, I would guess, I really don't know, maybe 30K unsold tickets between our remaining 2 games. And no real reason to buy one because the aftermarket is selling them below value. That is a big hole in our budget. And the stated goal in basketball is to be "pretty good, maybe finish 3rd or 4th". That does not really move the box office over there either.
And we have the self appointed out there wanting to fire a coach that has had 3 10 win season in the last 4 years. And we have the self appointed out there that want to join the MAC, or this THE AMERICAN!!!!!!!!! non-thing, or go back to I-AA. And we have the self-appointed out there, most of whom could not diagram a basic pass play, that have all sorts of coaching advice. And, worst of all, the delusional and self-appointed out there that think that all you have to do is pull a van up in Miami with Marshall on the side and watch the fight and let whoever wins get on.
We are having a CRAP year. Next year does not look much better, AND MH has no home step-up game to sell. Basketball is attempting to be "pretty good, not bad, maybe 3rd". The state is cutting the academic budget to the core and the war on coal is going to make today look like the good ole days 2 or 3 years from now. Give to the BG and the Foundation anyway. Come to the games anyway.
Go Herd.
So someone that has purchased single game tix for years, bought shirts, etc. isn't supporting the program? How delusional do some people have to be?
If he wants to grow the fan base, that's a damn piss poor way to do it!
So by those sentiments, I can't say the Reds suck if I don't buy a ticket and attend a game at Great American? LOL! Priceless!
Only from Marshall.
I must confess I have been a poor supporter of my University, lately. I threw in the towel for this year's football team & decided to eat my season tickets. When I reflect on my years as a student (late 1960's) it was my junior year before I witnessed a HERD Football Victory against Bowling Green on a muddy Fairfield Stadium. It was declared STOP THE STREAK WEEK (31 losses in a row). Our campus buildings displayed signs, made from bed sheets, pleading for our guys to STOP THE STREAK. Only Columbia University had more losses in a row. "Guess who was the head coach at Bowling Green?" I will let the old timers answer.....or the answer will be at the bottom of my post.
My Homecoming date, Libby Wolfe (a beautiful New Jersey girl) and I ran onto the field to celebrate with the players & many fans. Libby, dressed in high heels and a dress...I in a suit (the only one I owned). I looked like Mary Poppins with one hand holding an umbrella & Libby with my other hand so she would bust her butt in the mud. Come to think of it...maybe she should have fallen---I perhaps may have gained the opportunity to brush off the mud. He He He.
Over the years, I have given a lot of $$$ to support Marshall----just like most of you have. I am sure most of us have joined the ranks of 110%er this year to the Big Green Foundation and pledged $$$ to the Capital Vision Campaign.
Bottom line...we have too much invested in Marshall and it is not right to abort our support to our football team. Therefore, I am checking into flights to Hattiesburg to Cheer on The HERD. Forgive me guys---"I not know what I do."
HerdZilla22 (Sweeney) in Charlotte
Answer: Don Nehlen (WVU)
My Homecoming date, Libby Wolfe (a beautiful New Jersey girl) and I ran onto the field to celebrate with the players & many fans. Libby, dressed in high heels and a dress...I in a suit (the only one I owned). I looked like Mary Poppins with one hand holding an umbrella & Libby with my other hand so she would bust her butt in the mud. Come to think of it...maybe she should have fallen---I perhaps may have gained the opportunity to brush off the mud. He He He.
Over the years, I have given a lot of $$$ to support Marshall----just like most of you have. I am sure most of us have joined the ranks of 110%er this year to the Big Green Foundation and pledged $$$ to the Capital Vision Campaign.
Bottom line...we have too much invested in Marshall and it is not right to abort our support to our football team. Therefore, I am checking into flights to Hattiesburg to Cheer on The HERD. Forgive me guys---"I not know what I do."
HerdZilla22 (Sweeney) in Charlotte
Answer: Don Nehlen (WVU)
I don't see much wrong with what he said, maybe he coulda clarified more of who he was referring to, but I took it as people who never pay a nickel to see a game or donate etc.
Why does he even care? Thin skinned I guess. Every sports team has fringe fans that complain. This is so bush league it's beyond laughable. He would never make it as a Pro GM.
Yeah, I get that. But, I am glad he cares enough to come out to his public radio program and talk to people. Contrast to the POS, Satan's Vile Servant, KO Marcum, who ran off our best coach ever, hired a compliance director who had never read the rule book he was supposed to enforce and got us on probation (and was a homosexual who propositoned recruits and regular students some of which were probably underage), and who put up with making a token effort at basketball. And the only public statement he ever made was to LIE when the IPF money just disappeared AFTER constuction had been announced. And whose basic method was to get all buddied up with Marshall Reynolds and four or five other big donors and to hell with every body else. Or Lee Moon who totally alienated the basketball fanbase.
MH bleeds green more than anybody I know. He loves this school and left a better job in a better place to come here. He has acomplished many good things. IPF. Soccer stadium. Luxury box expansion. Modern scoreboard. Given time, if the bottom does not fall completly out due to the war on coal, he will get a solid upgrade to the stadium (I hear total redo of the restrooms, rework of the whole under the stands area to accomodate beer thoughout the stadium, and eventual land purchases around the stadium to bring all the parking $$ in-house, people do not realize how much of a disadvantage the fact that parking $$ are lost to mom and pop; and, yes, eventually something for baseball.)
MH has the balls to come out and say what he thinks, on this "social media" and on the radio. He will sit and talk to individual people. I am nobody and he will talk to me.
I will take that over KO or Moon any day.
I like MH as well and glad he is here but not sure this was well thought out on his part.
You guys who like MH aren't alone, but liking someone and not seeing their harmful approach and attitude from time to time are two different things. MH screwed this up, needs to get himself of Twitter. Anyone as poor at communications as Mike shouldn't be trying to be quoted in 140 characters. Dividing the Herd fan base, rather intentional or unintentional, isn't very smart. He needs to publically apologize.. period. He messed up and he alone can correct it. Testimonials about how great he is to people he pissed off aren't going to work.
Do you think people that don't care enough to go to the games are the ones raising the kind of hell Hamrick is hearing? No way.
Well Sam does he have "the balls" to fire s_ _ _ _ y coaching? Doubt it thus we pay to see a bad team and the AD calls out the fans! Give me a break.
I think this is born out of rational fear - Hamrick sees the writing on the wall. State budget drops, Marshall's budget is going to get slashed, and institutional support from the school will decrease significantly as a result.
Since joining FBS in 1997, Marshall's athletic budget has tripled - to the point that current institutional support ($14 million) alone is nearly time-and-a half-what the total budget used to be. We are currently playing in a league where 9-of-12 teams either didn't exist or were I-AA in 1997 - you sort of have to wonder if the level of play changed, or just the cost.
Since joining FBS in 1997, Marshall's athletic budget has tripled - to the point that current institutional support ($14 million) alone is nearly time-and-a half-what the total budget used to be. We are currently playing in a league where 9-of-12 teams either didn't exist or were I-AA in 1997 - you sort of have to wonder if the level of play changed, or just the cost.
Fact of the matter is this, what he said shouldn't have been said no matter how much crappie he hears from the fan base.
This is the facts we have 3100 Big Green Members and about 13k regular season ticket holders in Football and 3k Regular season ticket holders in basketball.
We average about 25k in Football and 5k in basketball.
What will Hamrick say when just the "supporters" only show up
This is the facts we have 3100 Big Green Members and about 13k regular season ticket holders in Football and 3k Regular season ticket holders in basketball.
We average about 25k in Football and 5k in basketball.
What will Hamrick say when just the "supporters" only show up
This reminds me of the time when I was told I couldn't complain because I didn't donate enough to the Big Green. I haven't been to many games since. that was about 8 years ago.
Just because people purchase season tickets does not mean they actually attend games so the number of potential people in attendance would be and is skewed to a degree. Once many others have had enough of the athletic director the numbers will continue to decline , poor highers , losing records , the failure to mitigate the problem. Could become very interesting over the next year or so.
BTW I have had season tickets 20 plus years, and I respect your right to say we suck, but this IS a young team, so go easy.
I bleed Kelly green, and always will. These kids aren't pros, they aren't getting paid, and I think they are trying. I won't get down on a young team , if this team sucks again next season I will get down on Doc et. al.
I bleed Kelly green, and always will. These kids aren't pros, they aren't getting paid, and I think they are trying. I won't get down on a young team , if this team sucks again next season I will get down on Doc et. al.
The Braves are going to be MUCH improved next year... I can't wait!
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