Topic: Does AT start against Ohio?

[coalherd]

Problem was the 4 win season was the norm and not split with 10 win seasons under Snyder...I think people forget how un organized Snyder teams were..we got smashed at home against FCS teams.

Umm, yeah, I still remember Snyds' end of game Clusterf*ck and brain cramp that essentially gave a win to Kansas State at the Joan.  Obviously, he left his game plans, notes, etc., around the Shewey for Doc to eventually use against WVU in 2010!

[Thundering In MD]

I hope Green starts and does well.  I expect to see Thompson get snaps and play more depending on what happens in the game.

[breckjimison]

I guess I'm stubborn. I haven't given up that we can't be a Boise type program...heck we are no where close to having an NIU type program (5 years of 11 plus wins and an Orange Bowl).  And it kills me that we are not; with our history, with our story, with our fan support, and with the start we got off to in the MAC...we were Boise before Boise was Boise. We have a freak'n movie about us, that when it plays on a cable TV station... people from around the world talk about us on twitter for 4 hours. And it just seems like the Dark Snyderday era has squandered all that...all of the hard work other players and coaches put in over 30 years to bring us to national prominence. Embarrassing blow out losses at home. Giving program defining games away in the last moment. Not taking care of business when we've had 6 and counting CUSA championships served up to us on a silver platter. We let fans leave by the thousands and don't seem to care. Not gaining a yard or first down in a half. That is not Marshall football...those are stats that only a place that doesn't care about football would have. 

I grew up on campus and around many of the players and students. I guess Marshall Football and MU sports in general is ingrained in who I am...and as much as they drive me crazy at times (all the time with Doc) I just can't totally give up. I can't settle for us turning into Kent. Or Bowling Green. Or even Ohio. Can't do it. Won't do it. I can't settle for us turning into a place were football doesn't matter.

This is too special of a place (imo) for it to be merely just a social gathering on game days and not about winning championships. If that does happen, boy have we let so much potential slip through our fingertips. To have it all and let it all slip away...is so much worse than just never having anything. That's just my opinion.

And I totally agree...over the last decade it has been an unhealthy obsession. But that's why we are called Fan(s)atics.

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I truly think this is the BEST post I have ever read on herdfans!

[HaveUherd]

I'll revise to better reflect what I meant. sorry.

It’s all good. I see that word misused a lot. Just messing with you.

[mubowhunter]

you should walk on and start

You are a smart ass

[Herdiowa]

I guess I'm stubborn. I haven't given up that we can't be a Boise type program...heck we are no where close to having an NIU type program (5 years of 11 plus wins and an Orange Bowl).  And it kills me that we are not; with our history, with our story, with our fan support, and with the start we got off to in the MAC...we were Boise before Boise was Boise. We have a freak'n movie about us, that when it plays on a cable TV station... people from around the world talk about us on twitter for 4 hours. And it just seems like the Dark Snyderday era has squandered all that...all of the hard work other players and coaches put in over 30 years to bring us to national prominence. Embarrassing blow out losses at home. Giving program defining games away in the last moment. Not taking care of business when we've had 6 and counting CUSA championships served up to us on a silver platter. We let fans leave by the thousands and don't seem to care. Not gaining a yard or first down in a half. That is not Marshall football...those are stats that only a place that doesn't care about football would have. 

I grew up on campus and around many of the players and students. I guess Marshall Football and MU sports in general is ingrained in who I am...and as much as they drive me crazy at times (all the time with Doc) I just can't totally give up. I can't settle for us turning into Kent. Or Bowling Green. Or even Ohio. Can't do it. Won't do it. I can't settle for us turning into a place were football doesn't matter.

This is too special of a place (imo) for it to be merely just a social gathering on game days and not about winning championships. If that does happen, boy have we let so much potential slip through our fingertips. To have it all and let it all slip away...is so much worse than just never having anything. That's just my opinion.

And I totally agree...over the last decade it has been an unhealthy obsession. But that's why we are called Fan(s)atics.

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