Topic: HZ: Fuller's Direction Should Aid Herd Linebackers

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By JACK BOGACZYK
HERDZONE.COM COLUMNIST

HUNTINGTON – Adam Fuller hasn’t figured out this geography question yet – whether this river city tilts north or south -- but he sure likes being at Marshall.

Fuller, named last month as the Thundering Herd’s new linebackers coach, said Huntington reminds him of where he grew up – the historic textile-milled city of Lowell, Mass. He also said he appreciates the Marshall mindset here.

“I can tell the school is ingrained in the community,” Fuller said one recent day in his Shewey Building office. “However it’s embedded, because of the (1970 plane) crash, the past successes, I’m not sure, but I grew up in Boston, in Lowell.

“We lived in Richmond, Va., My wife (Hope) is originally from Brooklyn, and we get to Richmond and thought, ‘Wow, this is the south!’ … sweet tea and all that, this is southern living. We were in Chattanooga last, and that was the south.

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