Topic: Gazette: Herd has room for improvement

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Marshall hosts Gardner-Webb tonight

By Doug Smock

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Marshall has room to improve on all sides of the ball tonight, and doing so should allow the Thundering Herd to make quick work of Gardner-Webb.

 The first order of business at 6:30 tonight is to not let the Runnin' Bulldogs build confidence and stay in the game, like so many Championship Subdivision teams before it - eight FCS teams scalped one of the "big boys" last weekend.

This probably isn't a team set up to kneecap an FBS squad - the Bulldogs have scored 18 points in their last three such games while yielding 133.

So if Marshall simply out-athletes these foes, winning should not be an issue. But this Herd team must improve in several areas before that Sept. 14 game at Ohio.

Link: http://www.wvgazette.com/Sports/Marshall/201309060178