Topic: Watched the 2010 WVU Game Last Night

[Ovaltine Jenkins]

It was the first time that I'd seen it since that time.  Martin Ward was an underutilized beast.  Looking back that team had some great players like Vinny, Mario Harvey, Booker, Dobson and others.  Brian Anderson performed extremely well.  Not getting into coach bashing, but that night was a big ass party waiting to happen.  I'll admit that I couldn't hang in through it's entirety. Too painful.   Hopefully, there will be a different outcome if we can get on the field against them again.

[MUsince96]

I've never been able to rewatch that game.

[parshall2marshall]

Students took it hard. All of us did really.

Defenders allowed and kept everything in front, as if in slow-motion.

Old stone-face remained stoic - as if he had no control and didn't give a damn.

[Herdman77]

This guy jinxed it. The Steve Bartman of Marshall. People on here complaining about not enough supporters from Kanawha county. Here was one.
https://www.wsaz.com/home/headlines/102885359.html

Also, Lou Holtz always said, the “pre-vent” defense pre-vents victory. Doc Holiday picked up so much from Don Nehlan, they blew a lot of games with that same pre-vent defense. 

[svherd]

The fumble killed but the D playing not to lose and not being aggressive hurt badly as well. There were open lanes to blitz Smith and get him but we peeled back and let him kill us.

[HuntersvilleHerd]

Here’s the worst part for me: after all the adversity (as soon as Tron fumbles, I said this game’s going into OT), watching them drive the length of the field twice and get the 2 pt conversion, all that heartbreak and choking and questionable decisions... we still won the toss and held them to a FG in OT.

AT THAT MOMENT, we had a chance to win the game with a TD. At that moment, you realize as a coach we have to win it right here. We already let it slip away once... We know the other team has more talent & experience & momentum. We somehow have been given one possession to win the game, and we need every bit of creative play calling to get in the end zone right now. You don’t get second chances very often, but we had them right where we wanted if the coaches had stepped up.

Instead, we played like we were protecting the opportunity to tie. If I remember correctly, a runner dropped in the backfield for loss on 1st down, a short run on 2nd, and a safe pass to a TE a yard or 2 short of the sticks on 3rd. And we all remember 4th down. Not exactly ALL IN on that series. I can’t watch it either. And I didn’t attend another game in 2010. (However, I was back for our next OT home game, the next season finale against ECU. On the very first play, we ran a deceptive wheel route and gained 24 yards and made a statement. If only we’d been that bold the previous season against wvu.)

[gcherd]

Sat at the 40-yard line in 2010 & watched our coaches play "not to win"...I still remember the feeling of despair walking out of the stadium as WVU fans cheered; I was back to the hotel within an hour instead of celebrating through the night as it should have been...I live in Atlanta & had to live through the Falcons Super Bowl loss in 2017; those 2 games are the worst sports memories I hope to ever have! :( :(

[THECHAMPISHERE]

People ask if Doc slept with my wife...worse, this game happened. Since then I knew we got Snyder 2.0 and THIS game (along with many others) is the fuel that keeps my utter disgust and discontent with Doc burning. Here in 2019 he's the exact same coach he was in 2010. 

[MUPhish]

I will never rewatch that game. Never.

[parshall2marshall]

People ask if Doc slept with my wife...worse, this game happened. Since then I knew we got Snyder 2.0 and THIS game (along with many others) is the fuel that keeps my utter disgust and discontent with Doc burning. Here in 2019 he's the exact same coach he was in 2010.

Not sure if it is fair to say he's the "exact" same coach. But a fair number of us I think are still holding disgust/disrespect, whatever, that I believe is justified. And the 2016 football season is still on the minds of many.

Just a theory, but we are on the verge of losing 20-25% more of the football fan base, what with Doc blowing 1-2 games per year and his ultra-conservative game-day ways. And -surprise- I think MU Brass may  privately concur with this potentially disasterous loss of support. You think someone posting as a former OL from 2016 ( unverified ) the shocking things he said about 2016 didn't filter back to the Shewey?

The reminder of this game that Ovaltine here posted is a microcosm (macrocosm?) of our frustration.

My guess is that we will really break out this year. As if it was somehow our "turn" to push from moderate, passable performance into real success. And if we actually do have that "real" success -both in football and in basketball possible- well, most of you know where I believe it will lead us ( A "justification" if you will ), as I have opined many times.

[puma]

It was the first time that I'd seen it since that time.  Martin Ward was an underutilized beast.  Looking back that team had some great players like Vinny, Mario Harvey, Booker, Dobson and others. Brian Anderson performed extremely well.  Not getting into coach bashing, but that night was a big ass party waiting to happen.  I'll admit that I couldn't hang in through it's entirety. Too painful.   Hopefully, there will be a different outcome if we can get on the field against them again.

Snyder and early Doc had ridiculous amounts of talent and depth. It's kind of crazy looking back at some of those players. I think that's a big reason why Doc was so successful from 2013-2015. He was basically playing against C-USA 3.0 teams with C-USA 2.0 recruits.

[THECHAMPISHERE]

Snyder and early Doc had ridiculous amounts of talent and depth. It's kind of crazy looking back at some of those players. I think that's a big reason why Doc was so successful from 2013-2015. He was basically playing against C-USA 3.0 teams with C-USA 2.0 recruits.

This EXACTLY. You nailed it. It was almost unfair. We got to take recruits from one of the best G5s and play teams from one of the worst G5s. And Still Doc got beat at home by WKU and barely won a championship against a team with 6 starters suspended.

2014 was like a youth A team playing an entire schedule full of youth C or even D teams...completely unfair...and yet Doc still struggled at times.

[Garbanjo]

This is the least interest I’ve had in Herd football in over 30 years

Thanks Doc

[HaveUherd]

What are you doing tonight?

Passing a kidney stone?

[goherd24]

I'll never forget that night. Doc blew that game, and really was a foreshadowing to his mediocre coaching ability. On the goal line and he put his lover boy Tron in to fumble it away. Even a GD field goal there and we win. Two 95 yard drives later and we go to OT and i knew it was over. I missed 3 days of work because of that game, I was sick at my stomach for a week.