Now that MU isn't in a Bowl

[Herdguy04]

Am I a fan of MU stepping away from the bowl game?
Nope.
However, I always valued the bowl games because I felt it was good exposure for MU and something for them to bond over, one last time, before many left.
Plus it's nice to have bowl game trophies and MU has quite a bit of unique ones...regardless of the goofy names...plus it is nice to brag about a good bowl record.
However, that's me.

But let's face it, the supposed outrage from all of you is completely unwarranted.
Now that you are, once again seeing reality, you decide to divert the attention elsewhere...in this case, MU, the AD, and players.

There hasn't been a positive reception of really any bowl game, normally reserved by people who can't grow up and admit they were wrong about a HC or a season prediction, in years.
But it seems because MU fans irrationally believe MU should be in the NY6, now, CFP every season...and throw their hands up and quit on the team after a loss.

Yet the fans don't expect the team to opt out before a bowl they deem is below them to watch or care about.

"Marshall had a pretty good season. Beat Maryland in the bow game too."
"Maryland was terrible."
"Marshall played the MAC Champion in Boca Raton"
"Should've played a P5 in freezing Texas, would have mattered more...their win over NIU shows nothing."
"My prediction, Huff will probably have us go 7-5 with a meaningless bowl game appearance."
"Bowl games suck, MU has no fun opponents...who cares if Doc never lost one."
"Boy, sure is easy for a HC to win a meaningless bowl game with like 2 weeks to prepare (forgetting the opponent has the same amount of time to do so too). Certainly couldn't do that in the regular season."
"Huff sucks, couldn't beat Louisiana in a bowl game!"

Fans, who never played a down of D1 football in their lives, are upset the team wouldn't risk the safety of a depleted roster for, again, something they have never appreciated.

Maybe be happy and fortunate for what you get from Marshall seasons instead of constantly crapping on the program because you attended and now they owe you unrealistic expectations.

"Oh, it's just a forum...this is routine!"
Well you all wanted a young, energetic guy to win MU a conference title then expect him to leave, you got it...you got EXACTLY that and now you're complaining.

Now you all willed enough about the uselessness of a bowl game and how meaningless it is in the grand scheme of the season, Marshall felt the same and THEY not YOU are somehow wrong.

Explain your logic.

 

[W-S HerdFan]

…….and the ESPY for college football’s most knee jerk reaction fanbase goes to …Marshall!
The judges asked me to inform the audience that this is the 1st time the results have been unanimous…..

 

[greengeezer]

That was a long rant. I got within the last five paragraphs before I nodded off.

 

[Herdguy04]

That was a long rant. I got within the last five paragraphs before I nodded off.

Given your handle, it is close to your bed time.

 

[caliherd]

Don’t worry geezer I’ll give you the cliff notes version. Herdguy04 is one of the Doc got screwed posse. Doc was the greatest coach ever and even though he had 11 seasons at Marshall he was screwed over while he was here and the fact they didn’t renew his contract. Nobody appreciated him, his bowl games meant nothing. It’s all Doc war wronged all the time. Every argument goes back to the Doc days.

He’s the same as Sammy. The only difference between 04 and Sammy is 04 blames the fans for what happened with Doc and gave Coach Huff a chance and Sam blamed the mysterious Marshall cabal that nobody knows who it is so he never liked Huff and never gave him any credit for anything.

04 to your comment about Maryland there was exactly zero Marshall fans that were not extremely jacked about that game and was extremely proud we smacked Maryland. There were some WVU fans who because Maryland stomped them during the regular season said that Maryland had a bunch of people hurt which was the only reason we won. But no Marshall fans didn’t love that game, the opponent and the fact we dominated.
Also you can talk about playing Northern Illinois as being better than playing the University of Illinois because NI was the MAC champ and was ranked. But in college football perception is all that matters. Beating a 6-6 Illinois team will always mean more than beating a 12-0 MAC school. Sorry that’s just the way it is. Docs most successful team record wise played zero P4 teams not even a bad one.

 

[greengeezer]

Given your handle, it is close to your bed time.

*Yawn*

 

[Herdguy04]

Don’t worry geezer I’ll give you the cliff notes version. Herdguy04 is one of the Doc got screwed posse. Doc was the greatest coach ever and even though he had 11 seasons at Marshall he was screwed over while he was here and the fact they didn’t renew his contract. Nobody appreciated him, his bowl games meant nothing. It’s all Doc war wronged all the time. Every argument goes back to the Doc days.

He’s the same as Sammy. The only difference between 04 and Sammy is 04 blames the fans for what happened with Doc and gave Coach Huff a chance and Sam blamed the mysterious Marshall cabal that nobody knows who it is so he never liked Huff and never gave him any credit for anything.

04 to your comment about Maryland there was exactly zero Marshall fans that were not extremely jacked about that game and was extremely proud we smacked Maryland. There were some WVU fans who because Maryland stomped them during the regular season said that Maryland had a bunch of people hurt which was the only reason we won. But no Marshall fans didn’t love that game, the opponent and the fact we dominated.
Also you can talk about playing Northern Illinois as being better than playing the University of Illinois because NI was the MAC champ and was ranked. But in college football perception is all that matters. Beating a 6-6 Illinois team will always mean more than beating a 12-0 MAC school. Sorry that’s just the way it is. Docs most successful team record wise played zero P4 teams not even a bad one.

Dude you're referring to, is old and asleep at this point.
You also wrote almost as much as I did. Good job, Cliffy.
It's not about Doc since the same complaints about any HC who could last longer than 4 years would be here. BP got accolades because MU had moved up and never experienced bowls before...also college football was light years different back then.
Doc had a long tenure and a good bowl record but the bowls were, still, crapped on.
Huff has had 3 bowls and is 1-2 in them...with bad losses and MU fans complained at all of them...same reasons as Doc...it's a useless bowl and dumb, etc.

I wouldn't have made the statement about Maryland if I hadn't heard enough people complaining about it, once more for several reasons...
NIU was the best team in the state. Had MU played Illinois and won, "can't beat a team with a winning record."
Instead it was the online fans who kept nitpicking as though their views mattered, they largely didn't, now MU actually isn't in a bowl game and the complaining at MU for it is laughably sad.

 

[MUMAN3419]

Dude you're referring to, is old and asleep at this point.
You also wrote almost as much as I did. Good job, Cliffy.
It's not about Doc since the same complaints about any HC who could last longer than 4 years would be here. BP got accolades because MU had moved up and never experienced bowls before...also college football was light years different back then.
Doc had a long tenure and a good bowl record but the bowls were, still, crapped on.
Huff has had 3 bowls and is 1-2 in them...with bad losses and MU fans complained at all of them...same reasons as Doc...it's a useless bowl and dumb, etc.

I wouldn't have made the statement about Maryland if I hadn't heard enough people complaining about it, once more for several reasons...
NIU was the best team in the state. Had MU played Illinois and won, "can't beat a team with a winning record."
Instead it was the online fans who kept nitpicking as though their views mattered, they largely didn't, now MU actually isn't in a bowl game and the complaining at MU for it is laughably sad.

Why are you here if every view irritates you? Do you just like to be argumentative?

 

[W-S HerdFan]

Because he’s a 🍆

 

[herd66]

The correct decision was made.i do not look forward to getting our asses being kicked.

 

[Herdguy04]

The correct decision was made.i do not look forward to getting our asses being kicked.

I agree. It's not worth risking the safety of the players who did stay, for a collective of fools.

 

[Herdguy04]

Why are you here if every view irritates you? Do you just like to be argumentative?

I'm not irritated, I'm pointing out the views of the fans over the many years of MU football and how they've advocated how below a bowl is for them.

It's not my fault you're triggered because you finally got what you wanted.

Same for the HC situation...got left high and dry and many in here are in shock at how/why.

In the end, it's always been this way for others and MU is no exception.

I like Gibson and I want him to succeed, despite he being the very type of hire MU fans wanted to move away from, but if these last 2 weeks have shown anyone anything, it's that MU is going to have to really become creative to keep up.

 

[MUMAN3419]

I'm not irritated, I'm pointing out the views of the fans over the many years of MU football and how they've advocated how below a bowl is for them.

It's not my fault you're triggered because you finally got what you wanted.

Same for the HC situation...got left high and dry and many in here are in shock at how/why.

In the end, it's always been this way for others and MU is no exception.

I like Gibson and I want him to succeed, despite he being the very type of hire MU fans wanted to move away from, but if these last 2 weeks have shown anyone anything, it's that MU is going to have to really become creative to keep up.

I’m not triggered. Just curious as to why you seem to be miserable and always arguing with every point of view.

 

[ThunderCat98]

Am I a fan of MU stepping away from the bowl game?
Nope.
However, I always valued the bowl games because I felt it was good exposure for MU and something for them to bond over, one last time, before many left.
Plus it's nice to have bowl game trophies and MU has quite a bit of unique ones...regardless of the goofy names...plus it is nice to brag about a good bowl record.
However, that's me.

But let's face it, the supposed outrage from all of you is completely unwarranted.
Now that you are, once again seeing reality, you decide to divert the attention elsewhere...in this case, MU, the AD, and players.

There hasn't been a positive reception of really any bowl game, normally reserved by people who can't grow up and admit they were wrong about a HC or a season prediction, in years.
But it seems because MU fans irrationally believe MU should be in the NY6, now, CFP every season...and throw their hands up and quit on the team after a loss.

Yet the fans don't expect the team to opt out before a bowl they deem is below them to watch or care about.

"Marshall had a pretty good season. Beat Maryland in the bow game too."
"Maryland was terrible."
"Marshall played the MAC Champion in Boca Raton"
"Should've played a P5 in freezing Texas, would have mattered more...their win over NIU shows nothing."
"My prediction, Huff will probably have us go 7-5 with a meaningless bowl game appearance."
"Bowl games suck, MU has no fun opponents...who cares if Doc never lost one."
"Boy, sure is easy for a HC to win a meaningless bowl game with like 2 weeks to prepare (forgetting the opponent has the same amount of time to do so too). Certainly couldn't do that in the regular season."
"Huff sucks, couldn't beat Louisiana in a bowl game!"

Fans, who never played a down of D1 football in their lives, are upset the team wouldn't risk the safety of a depleted roster for, again, something they have never appreciated.

Maybe be happy and fortunate for what you get from Marshall seasons instead of constantly crapping on the program because you attended and now they owe you unrealistic expectations.

"Oh, it's just a forum...this is routine!"
Well you all wanted a young, energetic guy to win MU a conference title then expect him to leave, you got it...you got EXACTLY that and now you're complaining.

Now you all willed enough about the uselessness of a bowl game and how meaningless it is in the grand scheme of the season, Marshall felt the same and THEY not YOU are somehow wrong.

Explain your logic.

I like how you consistently overgeneralize and attribute the views of a vocal minority on a message board to the entire fanbase. Kudos on your intelligent, well-reasoned take. 👍