You couldn't have stated it any better. It's easy to minimize the attention given to soccer, but I'm glad you reminded me about the difference in funding between the programs. Given that our soccer program isn't Marshall's bread and butter as is football/basketball, that makes this accomplishment all the more impressive and awesome!
Video of Herdman after the game.
The governor was at the game.
As was Brad Smith. Maybe ole Brad can float Grassie a personal note of congrat$!
I am not sure who your Molly McGuires are named after but mine are spelled
Baseball is about the only sport that occasionally produces a National Champion that’s not in one of the “P5” conferences. No matter how you slice it, this is still HUGE regardless.
When we started our intramural soccer team at Marshall we wanted to use Maguires but the movie was out and popular so just placed a "c" instead of the "a" to avoid any copywrite issues that may have occurred. Like our current team, we were made up of foreign students from all over the world, and as our friends in TKE, KA, Sig Eps, and SAE used to tease us, foreign students from NY and NJ. Me being one of those.
you must be older than me! IIRC that movie was released around 1976. FTR I grew up in the shadows of the gallows of where they hung Black Jack Kehoe (who I think the state of PA has pardoned) , which isnt very far from the Yuengling brewery!! As kids we went to the jail where they held the Mollies, and saw the shackles they used to chain them to the floor.
that tailgate was something. Herd fans know how to party.
