Unlike Marshall, most colleges will fire coaches if they are given enough time to produce and they do not. Marshall is still stuck in the good ole boy days and will never change unless you get new people with new thinking in to run the administration. Marshall is still run by old money, which like to run things the way they see fit. Just like the entire city of Huntington has been for years and why the city has seen the same fall. It is all the same mentality.
Okay, Thunder, let's have ourselves a look at this, shall weeeeeeeeee?
Bower's record in his first 5 seasons at USM?
1991: 4-7
1992: 7-4
1993: 2-8-1
1994: 6-5
1995: 6-5
Patience-schmatience? Don't talk to you or any of the Noseless about patience, right?
Who of the Noseless would keep a coach with THAT record after 5 seasons... a .454 percentage, appearing to be going nowhere with a program that PRIOR TO HIS ARRIVAL had a 23-12 record over the previous three seasons and 2 bowl appearances (ie, when bowl appearances for a "mid-major" were extremely few)?