Tony Gibson (HC frontrunner)
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I highly doubt we sent a student to pick up a coach.
You never know. After all, “We Are Marshall.”
This is a new thing in all coaching searches. Plug in two airport codes and start a thread about it.
You don't send a two seat prop plane to pick up a coach candidate, even if it does have the team logo on it.
Remember that this is, IIRC, the third year of the four year program that leads to a BS and a commercial pilots license. I would think that learning fly a bigger trip than circling around Charleston and landing a plane somewhere beside CRW and HTS has to be part of the curriculum.
And, as posted above, no return flight.
Anyway, while Gibson went to Glenville State, he is associated with WVU, and the WVU haters that hated on Doc, will likewise hate on him for the same reasons.
You don't send a two seat prop plane to pick up a coach candidate, even if it does have the team logo on it.
Remember that this is, IIRC, the third year of the four year program that leads to a BS and a commercial pilots license. I would think that learning fly a bigger trip than circling around Charleston and landing a plane somewhere beside CRW and HTS has to be part of the curriculum.
And, as posted above, no return flight.
Anyway, while Gibson went to Glenville State, he is associated with WVU, and the WVU haters that hated on Doc, will likewise hate on him for the same reasons.
There was a return flight..........https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/HRD38/history/20241203/1504Z/KHTS/KRDU
Sounds to me as if it was a student's short cross-country flight.
Umm, no. The plane, in this conspiracy theory, went from HTS to RDU, picked up Gibson, and flew him to HTS. The return flight would be a flight to take Gibson back, so there would need to be another flight from HTS to RDU, and then from RDU back to the plane's base at CRW, Note the plane's whole history is CRW to HTS to RDU, back to HTS, and then back to its base at CRW. This would imply that someone was taken FROM Huntington to RDU, not that someone (Gibson) was taken TO Huntington. So, unless we are modifying the conspiracy theory to say someone, supposedly CS, flew a four seat (yes, I said 2 seat, I looked it up, its a four seat plane) prop plane to interview Gibson in some room at an airport hanger with a total on the ground time of less than 3 hours, it doesn't hold up.
I don't see Gibson, or anyone, taking a job without a tour of the facilities, at least.
I'm sticking with its just a part of the Bill Noe School's curriculum or some big timer at the University had business in the Triangle or wanted to catch a flight at RDU, which has lots of international and cross country flights.
A prop plane two seater doesn’t make much sense in this case. Historically we’ve used the hoops family plane for recruiting/coaching trips etc. 2 hours in a prop plane would be pretty noisy even with headsets. It’s a cool looking plane though.
Could have been Spears flying down and back to meet with Gibson and make a pitch.
Guys, I live in the area and spotted them. Our new coach is on the way to Huntington. Based on my calculations of air temp, wind speeds, and lift needed to get over the Appalachian Plateau, Fuel stops, etc. I am guessing he should be there sometime mid December. Give or take.
Ummm, yes. The comment was clarifying that there was a return flight to HTS. The comment wasn't about who was on the flight.
There were reports that CS and BS were on the flight to interview Gibson. So one would assume they would be on the return flight. But you're probably right, just some Bill Noe curriculum added to fly to the RDU to throw everyone off because most people from Huntington go to Raleigh to catch international and cross country flights (sarcasm)
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feels like a Doc 2.0
MU giving a grizzled lifer his first shot at the HC job.
hard pass.
would rather go young hip with kids guy if we're going with zero HC experience.
MU giving a grizzled lifer his first shot at the HC job.
hard pass.
would rather go young hip with kids guy if we're going with zero HC experience.
He at least has coordinator experience, Doc never had that. I think its a fine hire. Probably the best we were going to do this coaching cycle. I think Chesney at JMU would've been great last year coming up from Holy Cross. I'm not sure who in FCS you could go get this year. It feels like a "safe" move. Hopefully its a uniting moment for the fanbase and we can get back to pulling the rope in the same direction.
Why does WVU background mean anything? half of the state or more has some type of WVU background. Heck the school's current CFO is from WVU. At least give the guy a chance.
In no particular order:
- He's coming from a P4 program with coordinator experience.
- He has ties to the area making it more likely he will stay/not absolutely hate it.
- Prior knowledge/experience regarding portal and NIL at the P4 level.
for getting your first shot at the HC job?
I think it is.
On paper I love the hire. As always, we'll see.
This is most decorated coach we've hired since Pruett. I like the idea of him actually calling a game on one side of the ball before and doing it a high level. He's a WV native and knows the area and the people. I highly doubt you'll have the drama that Huff brought sometimes with calling out the admin for a lack of resources or the fan base for a variety of issues.
He's been around a lot of coaches at age 52. He's at the prime age for still having the energy to recruit and relate to 16-22 year olds, but old enough to have experienced a lot of different ways of doing things.
I for one am over Huff and his antics, BRING ON GIBSON!
This is most decorated coach we've hired since Pruett. I like the idea of him actually calling a game on one side of the ball before and doing it a high level. He's a WV native and knows the area and the people. I highly doubt you'll have the drama that Huff brought sometimes with calling out the admin for a lack of resources or the fan base for a variety of issues.
He's been around a lot of coaches at age 52. He's at the prime age for still having the energy to recruit and relate to 16-22 year olds, but old enough to have experienced a lot of different ways of doing things.
I for one am over Huff and his antics, BRING ON GIBSON!
Let's be honest. The first criteria of this hire was going to be someone who has/had a tie to the state-region.
I'd go radical and give Doege the job.
I heard someone say that Gibson is a "more aggressive, creative Doc." I think this was supposed to have been said as a negative. But had Doc been aggressive and creative he would have been amazing. It isn't like Doc was a bad coach. I think Gibson will be liked by players, organized, a really good recruiter, and have a lot of contacts from which to draw assistants. He really really wants to be here and will not be looking for the next thing. Marshall isn't in a spot in the college football universe where we have the option to hire "can't miss" guys, but I think Gibson is a really great hire.
Well considering the last guy was outsider and all he did was try to leave every chance he got. It's understandable to want to better yourself, but you should appreciate the job you have while you have it.
Every coach that comes to Marshall is looking for the first plane out. The only reason Doc stayed for 11 seasons was due to nobody wanting him. Pruett was going to Houston and Elsie and the fact Houston jumped the gun kept him here, Donnan went to Georgia, Parrish went to Kansas State and Chaump to Navy.
The only reason Snyder and Doc stayed was due to nobody wanting them.
This whole well the coach will have to act like Huntington is awesome or Marshall is going to be my forever job is stupid. I don’t care if he hates Huntington I don’t care if his wife hates it so much she doesn’t even move here. I want to win and I want a good football coach.
UK did OK in basketball by having a guy from NY whose wife hated Lexington. But he won a NC and had UK in the NC discussion every year he was there. Then guess what he went to Boston to coach the Celtics. So even one of if not the premier basketball school in the country could keep their coach or make the coaches wife like the town.
Marshall is a stepping stone school for any basketball or football coach. But the nice thing is all of the coaches I mentioned earlier that went to other schools it was because they were winning! I’ll take a coach leaving every couple of years if they are winning!
The only reason Snyder and Doc stayed was due to nobody wanting them.
This whole well the coach will have to act like Huntington is awesome or Marshall is going to be my forever job is stupid. I don’t care if he hates Huntington I don’t care if his wife hates it so much she doesn’t even move here. I want to win and I want a good football coach.
UK did OK in basketball by having a guy from NY whose wife hated Lexington. But he won a NC and had UK in the NC discussion every year he was there. Then guess what he went to Boston to coach the Celtics. So even one of if not the premier basketball school in the country could keep their coach or make the coaches wife like the town.
Marshall is a stepping stone school for any basketball or football coach. But the nice thing is all of the coaches I mentioned earlier that went to other schools it was because they were winning! I’ll take a coach leaving every couple of years if they are winning!
Absolutely... now there is just one thing left to do. See if Gibson can win
Aside from Doc Holiday.....they all run the second they are given the chance. ALL OF THEM. Hell even Doc interviewed at Pitt while he was here. Everyone seems to forget this and come up with their own mythology.
No. We remember that. We also remember Pruett was on his way to Houston. However they weren't trying to leave just four games into their first season. The only one coming up with mythology is you.
I think a lot are blaming Huff directly for work his agent has done. He has the best agent in the business…..that’s his job and what he does it get his clients name in public as much a possible and make them the most $$$ he can….in turn make himself the most $$$….
Last year what he was able to do with Guys getting jobs and using them as leverage against each other was brilliant.
Couple tales out there that Huff actually interviewed at places are incorrect….name linked absolutely but that’s his agent’s job and why he’s the best….but some are crossing what Sexton has done and thinking Huff actually did it.
Last year what he was able to do with Guys getting jobs and using them as leverage against each other was brilliant.
Couple tales out there that Huff actually interviewed at places are incorrect….name linked absolutely but that’s his agent’s job and why he’s the best….but some are crossing what Sexton has done and thinking Huff actually did it.
Anybody can call a game. Being successful while doing it is a different story.
This is how Gibson's defenses ranked as a defensive coordinator:
2014: 66 out of 125
2015: 61 out of 127
2016: 74 out of 128
2017: 106 out of 129
2018: 74 out of 129
2021: 21 out of 130
2022: 18 out of 130
2023: 29 out of 130
2024: 84 out of 133
Sorry, but that doesn't excite me as a DC let alone as an HC. I am not a believer that a head coach has to be a great coordinator. Head coaching requires a different skill set. But considering his lack of appeal as a head coach to any other school, I find it hard to believe that he has that type of skill set.
You say that like it's a good thing. Marshall's (and the entire state's) problem is that it gives a shit about that. Sorry, but recruiting one of your own from a state that is dead last or next-to-last in just about every important metric is not a good thing. Outsiders can only help.
Bradley Smith isn't going to have success doing what he wants to do by rallying up the state's residents. He is going to have success by getting outsiders interested, involved, and investing. Gibson being one of your own and rallying up the poor, the tired, and the huddled masses won't do much.
That's the part of a head coach's job. Pushing for more for his players, staff, and program. Pruett was doing the same thing when he resigned. Huff is far from the first to have done it. He just happens to be black in west virginia . . .
Please list all of these antics . . . not online rumors about what he allegedly said about Huntington without actual quotes/citing sources, but actual things he did/said. Being black and not knowing his place doesn't count.
