Topic: The "Texas Conference" picks a fix that allows the rich Texas school to host....

[cincyherd]

the championship game.  I've been "good" with the new CUSA until now.  Our team should be playing this game in front of our fans.  A tie-breaker formula that doesn't work?  No problem.  Screw the poor eastern school.

If we could afford it, I wish now that we could enter the AAC. 

[CharlestonHerdGuy]

That's exactly how I see it.  We need to look at our options and a lawsuit is one option to consider.

[pdunn]

Temporary restraining order could be a possibility, but I'd rather just go beat that team down there and then give CUSA a permanent cold shoulder.

[pembrook burrows III]

Say what you want about the MAC, but it had enough sense to let Marshall host the league championship game when the league's image needed a boost. MAC Commissioner at the time, Rick Chryst, was savvy enough to know that promoting teams with exciting players and fannies in the seats was the right play for the MAC. The MAC also ponied up additional dollars when the Herd went undefeated in 1999 to attract a "name" opponent (BYU) to the Motor City Bowl, again because Chryst knew how to promote a conference.

Like the MAC in the late 1990's, CUSA needs an image adjustment in the worst way after the departure of several of its "name" teams. That this tumbleweed Texas conference would pull this crap at a time when the conference has had to go "hat in hand" to beg the lowliest of Division I-A teams (and some not yet I-A in football) just to join its sinking ship is both outrageous and stupid.

This is the dirtiest deal Marshall has received since Ohio University President Claude Sowle cast the lone vote against Marshall re-joining the MAC in 1972. Most Ohio fans can tell you that Sowle was an elitist scoundrel who almost ruined the Athens school at the time, resigning in shame amidst some of the worst campus unrest in the nation. He obviously didn't do much for Marshall either.

As far as I am concerned, Britton Banowsky is of the same lowly ilk, and can kiss his own stinking CUSA$$!

[CharlestonHerdGuy]

I love the fire pembrook!

[kjh]

Say what you want about the MAC, but it had enough sense to let Marshall host the league championship game when the league's image needed a boost. MAC Commissioner at the time, Rick Chryst, was savvy enough to know that promoting teams with exciting players and fannies in the seats was the right play for the MAC. The MAC also ponied up additional dollars when the Herd went undefeated in 1999 to attract a "name" opponent (BYU) to the Motor City Bowl, again because Chryst knew how to promote a conference.

Like the MAC in the late 1990's, CUSA needs an image adjustment in the worst way after the departure of several of its "name" teams. That this tumbleweed Texas conference would pull this crap at a time when the conference has had to go "hat in hand" to beg the lowliest of Division I-A teams (and some not yet I-A in football) just to join its sinking ship is both outrageous and stupid.

This is the dirtiest deal Marshall has received since Ohio University President Claude Sowle cast the lone vote against Marshall re-joining the MAC in 1972. Most Ohio fans can tell you that Sowle was an elitist scoundrel who almost ruined the Athens school at the time, resigning in shame amidst some of the worst campus unrest in the nation. He obviously didn't do much for Marshall either.

As far as I am concerned, Britton Banowsky is of the same lowly ilk, and can kiss his own stinking CUSA$$!

This ^^^^^^^^ should be sent to CUSA commish office. Great point. Screw CUSA. First chance we get adios.

[W0lfman]

The guy has 21 post total and give us that beautiful piece of work!  Bravo!

[Flat Tire 2]

Say what you want about the MAC, but it had enough sense to let Marshall host the league championship game when the league's image needed a boost. MAC Commissioner at the time, Rick Chryst, was savvy enough to know that promoting teams with exciting players and fannies in the seats was the right play for the MAC. The MAC also ponied up additional dollars when the Herd went undefeated in 1999 to attract a "name" opponent (BYU) to the Motor City Bowl, again because Chryst knew how to promote a conference.

Like the MAC in the late 1990's, CUSA needs an image adjustment in the worst way after the departure of several of its "name" teams. That this tumbleweed Texas conference would pull this crap at a time when the conference has had to go "hat in hand" to beg the lowliest of Division I-A teams (and some not yet I-A in football) just to join its sinking ship is both outrageous and stupid.

This is the dirtiest deal Marshall has received since Ohio University President Claude Sowle cast the lone vote against Marshall re-joining the MAC in 1972. Most Ohio fans can tell you that Sowle was an elitist scoundrel who almost ruined the Athens school at the time, resigning in shame amidst some of the worst campus unrest in the nation. He obviously didn't do much for Marshall either.

As far as I am concerned, Britton Banowsky is of the same lowly ilk, and can kiss his own stinking CUSA$$!

I don't think anything will top what happened when The Herd  reapplied to the MAC. At the final "formal" vote to readmit us, OU pulled the rug out from under us and we ended up playing in the no man's land of independents until we got into the Southern Conference.