As a lifetime Marshall fan who grew up on campus and played football, baseball, and basketball with a lot of the players in my childhood days, who hung out at the dorms....who then went to Marshall and ate, slept, breathed, lived, died, schedule my life around and daydreamed about Marshall sports every second of every day for decades....I must say it's surprisingly easy to bail and root for a team who has their sh!t together and that cares. Yes I'm still hanging on by the thinnest of threads ...but what makes it easy for me is when the school doesn't care about winning...I feel like... why should I? Getting on a high horse and trying to be a loyal "good fan" as if fandom equates to some type of morality or virtuous higher ground is for what? Who that matters do I care about impressing with my "fandom" and what good does loyal-ness get me? Absolutely Nothing, but frustration.
And that's why we are all leaving. The powers that be at Marshall don't care. They set up a retirement program for coaches nobody wanted. They set themselves AGAINST fans. They took care of their buddies. They didn't want to put winning programs on the field. They had all the momentum in the world and blew it monumentally. Winningest team in the 90's. Undefeated season. Bowl games against P5s in front of 50k. More Heisman candidates back to back to back than any program in college football...in that span. A freakin' movie released nationally with A list actors about them...and BLEW IT. They took a silver platter and turned it into a dumpster fire. And then we're supposed to "be a good fan" and care? Nope. Like so many others...even if I wanted to care I can't anymore...