Marshall improves to 3-1....

[marshallman]

3-1

Stop the season now, and take a picture. Crow won't be served until the end of the season.

marshallman can eat it at Thanksgiving, since he won't be planning for a bowl game.

Still have 8 games, and they only need to lose 5 to not have a winning season. I still have faith in the turd.

Yea, this coming from a guy who wouldn't know a play from his football days but can claim he MARCHED on the field!

[theassassin]

didnt marshall go to wvu with one of their best teams ever back in the late 90's and wvu was a 500 team that year? if i remember right pennington/moss and pruett were sent back to huntington with their tails between their legs.
expect more of the same this year.

Yea that one hurt us, especially when we were up 3 possession in the 4th qtr.. oh and NO, lets not expect the same! lol

you were up 3 possessions in the 4th qtr??? i thought wvu was up big early before marshall came back only to have wvu win going away.... 42-31

check your history again.... like i said, saturday was just more of the same... marshall was totally dominated by a slightly above average wvu.

[fuzzhead]

I actually made it up to Morgantown Saturday and I wasn't really impressed with either team. Marshall only got a little over 150 yards total and they still had red zone opportunities. The score could have just as easily been 20-13.
I'm not a big fan of either team, but I hope WVU fans enjoyed being classless to MU fans because they'll definitely need the win. I'd say they could easily lose 3 more games or maybe even go 6-6. Marshall could easily go 6-6 as well. The difference? 6-6 would probably be considered a tremendous success for Marshall given how badly they were predicted to finish by many. 6-8 wins for WVU would bring a cascade of hate towards Stewart and they'd definitely be calling for his head.
The way I see it, Marshall (especially Cann who missed one, maybe two TD passes on the first possession and made bad throws all day long) probably played its worst complete game of the season (only the 2nd half against Wisky was terrible and Wisky is a ranked Big 10 team) and still had opportunities to at least make it much closer. WVU definitely played its best game of the year, put up almost 4 times as much offense as Marshall, and still was only up 14-3 at halftime.
As an aside, it's painfully obvious WVU misses Owen Schmidt.

[MUFanDave]

didnt marshall go to wvu with one of their best teams ever back in the late 90's and wvu was a 500 team that year? if i remember right pennington/moss and pruett were sent back to huntington with their tails between their legs.
expect more of the same this year.

Yea that one hurt us, especially when we were up 3 possession in the 4th qtr.. oh and NO, lets not expect the same! lol

you were up 3 possessions in the 4th qtr??? i thought wvu was up big early before marshall came back only to have wvu win going away.... 42-31

check your history again.... like i said, saturday was just more of the same... marshall was totally dominated by a slightly above average wvu.

Yea im sorry u are right, Marshall was up 31-28 in the 3rd, then gave up 14 to WVU in the fourth.. I was thinkin of the 21 points Marsh put up in the 3rd to catch up, again, sorry

[seofan_via_dublin]

3-1

Stop the season now, and take a picture. Crow won't be served until the end of the season.

marshallman can eat it at Thanksgiving, since he won't be planning for a bowl game.

Still have 8 games, and they only need to lose 5 to not have a winning season. I still have faith in the turd.

Yea, this coming from a guy who wouldn't know a play from his football days but can claim he MARCHED on the field!

Apparently only people who play the game can know anything about it, and 12 years of not marching and paying attention to college football religiously still gets no knowledge of the game.

Pay no attention to the fact that I am consitantly near the top of any college pickem set I'm in.

[Raiderball]

I actually made it up to Morgantown Saturday and I wasn't really impressed with either team. Marshall only got a little over 150 yards total and they still had red zone opportunities. The score could have just as easily been 20-13.
I'm not a big fan of either team, but I hope WVU fans enjoyed being classless to MU fans because they'll definitely need the win. I'd say they could easily lose 3 more games or maybe even go 6-6. Marshall could easily go 6-6 as well. The difference? 6-6 would probably be considered a tremendous success for Marshall given how badly they were predicted to finish by many. 6-8 wins for WVU would bring a cascade of hate towards Stewart and they'd definitely be calling for his head.
The way I see it, Marshall (especially Cann who missed one, maybe two TD passes on the first possession and made bad throws all day long) probably played its worst complete game of the season (only the 2nd half against Wisky was terrible and Wisky is a ranked Big 10 team) and still had opportunities to at least make it much closer. WVU definitely played its best game of the year, put up almost 4 times as much offense as Marshall, and still was only up 14-3 at halftime.
As an aside, it's painfully obvious WVU misses Owen Schmidt.

Obviously WVU misses the big fullback. They are really searching for someone to fill that void in 3rd and short situations.
Marshall's red zone opportunities were the result of a muffed punt and 2 long kick off returns. Offense might have sustained at most 2 drives all day. Cann was definitely off with his passes but maybe that is due to WV pass D or pressure on the QB.
If you want to look at it and say it could have been 20-13 that is fine... WVU on the other hand might comeback and say it could have easily been 41-3 (Marshall D forced White to scramble at end of 1st half using the final 8 seconds. This on 3rd down. If you remember WVU took a knee on first down inside 5-6 yd line to end the game.) Often times it is like that in many games. WOULDA, COULDA, SHOULDA..... IF... my aunt had balls she would be my uncle.

[marshallman]

3-1

Stop the season now, and take a picture. Crow won't be served until the end of the season.

marshallman can eat it at Thanksgiving, since he won't be planning for a bowl game.

Still have 8 games, and they only need to lose 5 to not have a winning season. I still have faith in the turd.

Yea, this coming from a guy who wouldn't know a play from his football days but can claim he MARCHED on the field!

You picked Marshall to be 1-3 at this time. Yes, playing the game holds a lot of weight in knowledge of the game. This is the same as me trying to tell you how OSU does script Ohio and I never was in a band.

Apparently only people who play the game can know anything about it, and 12 years of not marching and paying attention to college football religiously still gets no knowledge of the game.

Pay no attention to the fact that I am consitantly near the top of any college pickem set I'm in.

[theassassin]

no need to apologize dave. you had me thinking a little bit i was wrong though.

hope to see marshall finish reg season at 10-2 conf usa champs.

[seofan_via_dublin]

So when the season is over, you won't mind mentioning that a "never was" knows more
about the current college football game than a "has been".

Judging by the lack of knowledge on how to even use a quote devise on a chat board, I doubt it'll be an issue.

[fuzzhead]

Obviously WVU misses the big fullback. They are really searching for someone to fill that void in 3rd and short situations.
Marshall's red zone opportunities were the result of a muffed punt and 2 long kick off returns. Offense might have sustained at most 2 drives all day. Cann was definitely off with his passes but maybe that is due to WV pass D or pressure on the QB.
If you want to look at it and say it could have been 20-13 that is fine... WVU on the other hand might comeback and say it could have easily been 41-3 (Marshall D forced White to scramble at end of 1st half using the final 8 seconds. This on 3rd down. If you remember WVU took a knee on first down inside 5-6 yd line to end the game.) Often times it is like that in many games. WOULDA, COULDA, SHOULDA..... IF... my aunt had balls she would be my uncle.

That was kinda my point about the Marshall opportunities - with 150 yards of offense, the other team has to make some mistakes. WVU did and that's one of the reasons I wasn't impressed. The TD pass Cann missed was not the result of pressure. Anyone who was there will tell you Passmore was streaking wide open right down the sidelines and Cann threw the ball out of the endzone. Cody Slate's TD catch was called back because of a penalty. WVU played really good rush defense and they tightened up when it counted in the redzone. Like I said, they played their best game of the year (I'm not counting Villanova because they're a DII team and a pretty bad one at that). Marshall played their worst complete game.
And don't even think about thinking that I'm a closet fan of either of these teams. I was a neutral spectator who was there because the ticket was free and the charter bus was nice. I don't own a stitch of clothing from either team.

[seofan_via_dublin]

Fixing to make that record 3-3. hmmmm.

[Peake]

Where you at marshallman?

I will admit I was off by a single game, which I thought they would lose to Memphis (should have), instead they beat them and won a game I didn't think they would.

I told you that UC would beat Marshall. Way too much athleticism for an average defense.

Name me a single player on the oline, aside from CJ Wood, who will ever be anything other than average.

Both lines for MU are just not very good.

[fuzzhead]

Cann is terrible... nuff said.

[theassassin]

Obviously WVU misses the big fullback. They are really searching for someone to fill that void in 3rd and short situations.
Marshall's red zone opportunities were the result of a muffed punt and 2 long kick off returns. Offense might have sustained at most 2 drives all day. Cann was definitely off with his passes but maybe that is due to WV pass D or pressure on the QB.
If you want to look at it and say it could have been 20-13 that is fine... WVU on the other hand might comeback and say it could have easily been 41-3 (Marshall D forced White to scramble at end of 1st half using the final 8 seconds. This on 3rd down. If you remember WVU took a knee on first down inside 5-6 yd line to end the game.) Often times it is like that in many games. WOULDA, COULDA, SHOULDA..... IF... my aunt had balls she would be my uncle.

That was kinda my point about the Marshall opportunities - with 150 yards of offense, the other team has to make some mistakes. WVU did and that's one of the reasons I wasn't impressed. The TD pass Cann missed was not the result of pressure. Anyone who was there will tell you Passmore was streaking wide open right down the sidelines and Cann threw the ball out of the endzone. Cody Slate's TD catch was called back because of a penalty. WVU played really good rush defense and they tightened up when it counted in the redzone. Like I said, they played their best game of the year (I'm not counting Villanova because they're a DII team and a pretty bad one at that). Marshall played their worst complete game.
And don't even think about thinking that I'm a closet fan of either of these teams. I was a neutral spectator who was there because the ticket was free and the charter bus was nice. I don't own a stitch of clothing from either team.

that pretty bad DII team (villanova) is now 3-1 on the season. i also think if you research you will find they have made the DII playoffs numerous years.
did little research myself... villanova in playoffs 89, 91,92, 96, 97, 02.... page i was looking at stopped with the 03 season

[fuzzhead]

They aren't anywhere near the caliber of last year's Appy State or Delaware State.
West Virginia really isn't that good. When I said Nova was "pretty bad" I meant how they played against WVU - as in they probably wouldn't be as competitive against other DI schools as past DII teams might have been - they wouldn't beat Marshall would have been a better way to put it.
Tell me you didn't look all that up just to try to make me look stupid...

[theassassin]

They aren't anywhere near the caliber of last year's Appy State or Delaware State.
West Virginia really isn't that good. When I said Nova was "pretty bad" I meant how they played against WVU - as in they probably wouldn't be as competitive against other DI schools as past DII teams might have been - they wouldn't beat Marshall would have been a better way to put it.
Tell me you didn't look all that up just to try to make me look stupid...

didnt have to............. you do that yourself.......

[fuzzhead]

I've already explained myself...
Please try to contribute something useful... use some brain power...

Back to the thread topic, I still say Marshall gets 6 wins. C-USA isn't very good this year....