(01-23-2013 04:26 PM)panicstricken Wrote:  Tulsa got bent over

No trips to Texas.

See you later CUSA.

We (Rice) are actually really frustrated that we have to travel to your place for a second straight year.

On paper, Rice/Tulsa should be competing for the 2013 West division title. And since we haven't beaten you guys in like 80 years (actually 2006), this would have been key. Don't get it at all.

(And, it would have given you a trip to Texas).

(01-23-2013 12:39 PM)MU ATO Wrote:  Thank you CUSA for sending Marshall to the great state of Florida twice! I know we will use it wisely!

And in our one year left in the East we host both Florida schools?? Fricking idiots. Why does the conference office hate us? Why send us NTexas instead of our last chance to play Tulane in conference? Now firmly in the the "we need out" USM crowd. Apparently C-USA doesn't want us.

(01-23-2013 05:32 PM)Luckyshot Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 12:39 PM)MU ATO Wrote:  Thank you CUSA for sending Marshall to the great state of Florida twice! I know we will use it wisely!

And in our one year left in the East we host both Florida schools?? Fricking idiots. Why does the conference office hate us? Why send us NTexas instead of our last chance to play Tulane in conference? Now firmly in the the "we need out" USM crowd. Apparently C-USA doesn't want us.

C-USA has never given a crap about the Tulane-USM series. This is no surprise.

(01-23-2013 05:48 PM)DrBox Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 05:32 PM)Luckyshot Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 12:39 PM)MU ATO Wrote:  Thank you CUSA for sending Marshall to the great state of Florida twice! I know we will use it wisely!

And in our one year left in the East we host both Florida schools?? Fricking idiots. Why does the conference office hate us? Why send us NTexas instead of our last chance to play Tulane in conference? Now firmly in the the "we need out" USM crowd. Apparently C-USA doesn't want us.

C-USA has never given a crap about the Tulane-USM series. This is no surprise.

Neither has tulane, we had a proposal to play a perm cross division game and tulane voted agasint it.

(01-23-2013 04:12 PM)GrayBeard Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 02:54 PM)eaglerock Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 02:27 PM)mwp1023 Wrote:  I was looking forward to playing LA Tech before Skip and then really wanted to play them after they hired him. I really wish we could of had them next year.

USM got the shaft, they somehow got stuck in the sunbelt for 2013. May be a blessing in disguise because they do need W's right now more than anything.

USM at Denny Ficklin is a home game, look at the results.

Dowdy, not Denny. You guys aren't the USM of old. Can't wait to get this season underway.

Keep thinking that

(01-23-2013 04:21 PM)NTTHOR Wrote:  true...most are back...but we lost important starters on defense...we shall see how improved we are next year!

However, we many finally have a good QB for the first time in years. We can't get much worse than Thompson last year. Hopefully Berglund is the answer.

(01-23-2013 01:59 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 12:30 PM)RowdyRoost Wrote:  ugh.

Word.

How does ECU not play La Tech considering the story lines for that game? That would be a TV exec's wet dream. If not a CUSA Marketing Exec's wet dream.

So let's make it happen by playing each other on December 7th. Played in Ruston, of course.

(01-23-2013 03:49 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  How long of a drive from Hattiesburg to the French Quarter ?

It's about 100 miles to the Quarter. It will take you about an hour and forty five to get there. Getting back is another thing, me and Brett Favre made it in less than an hour once. We had a car load of chicks so we were highly motivated.

Based on schedule, returning talent, and coaching, I've got the early non-homer pick of Marshall at Rice for the C-USA Championship. MTSU and ECU could also win the East (I hope USM is competing too, but this is non-homer) and Tulsa has a good shot at the West as well.

(01-23-2013 03:43 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 03:32 PM)Fish Wrote:  We have a phenomenal home conference schedule:

HOME – East Carolina, Louisiana Tech, Marshall, UAB

If we don't have improved attendance this year, we never will :( Also have OOC home games with FCS Bethune-Cookman and host UCF (who we beat last time they came to Miami )

With 34 Marshall players from FL on the roster there should be a decent crowd at FIU and FAU. And our recruiting class isn't finished. There most likely will be othe FLunky players added.

FIFY

(01-23-2013 07:22 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 03:43 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 03:32 PM)Fish Wrote:  We have a phenomenal home conference schedule:

HOME – East Carolina, Louisiana Tech, Marshall, UAB

If we don't have improved attendance this year, we never will :( Also have OOC home games with FCS Bethune-Cookman and host UCF (who we beat last time they came to Miami )

With 34 Marshall players from FL on the roster there should be a decent crowd at FIU and FAU. And our recruiting class isn't finished. There most likely will be othe FLunky players added.

FIFY

WAA WAA WAA BITC*

ECU takes NQer also. We can't help it yours just don't make the grades. See Chevelle Buie. Doc has taken NQes and only one hasn't made it.

DeAndre Kane was a NQ and will grad. after his JR year. Kane was actually diagnosed with learning disorder, as are most that end up as NQers. Marshall in the last 6 years have had 3 athletes grad with their Masters who started out at Marshall as a NQer.

Last year we took AJ Leggett who had a 23 on his ACT, not his fault that Miami admissions require a 26. This year we have 4 star Angelo Jean Louis who also wanted to go to Miami, he has already taken the ACT and has a 24, and will most likely be cleared.

Now go crawl back in you hole or up Leblow's a$$.

I do hope the FL schools are split after this year so The Herd travels to and hosts one each. Playing there twice this year may help recruiting but to me one of the benefits of having two FL schools would be to play there every year. Other than that OK.

(01-23-2013 07:59 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 07:22 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 03:43 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 03:32 PM)Fish Wrote:  We have a phenomenal home conference schedule:

HOME – East Carolina, Louisiana Tech, Marshall, UAB

If we don't have improved attendance this year, we never will :( Also have OOC home games with FCS Bethune-Cookman and host UCF (who we beat last time they came to Miami )

With 34 Marshall players from FL on the roster there should be a decent crowd at FIU and FAU. And our recruiting class isn't finished. There most likely will be othe FLunky players added.

FIFY

WAA WAA WAA BITC*

ECU takes NQer also. We can't help it yours just don't make the grades. See Chevelle Buie. Doc has taken NQes and only one hasn't made it.

DeAndre Kane was a NQ and will grad. after his JR year. Kane was actually diagnosed with learning disorder, as are most that end up as NQers. Marshall in the last 6 years have had 3 athletes grad with their Masters who started out at Marshall as a NQer.

Last year we took AJ Leggett who had a 23 on his ACT, not his fault that Miami admissions require a 26. This year we have 4 star Angelo Jean Louis who also wanted to go to Miami, he has already taken the ACT and has a 24, and will most likely be cleared.

Now go crawl back in you hole or up Leblow's a$$.

Buie? When did he make it on campus at ECU??? That's news to me. How can you take a kid and not have him on the team or in school????

We've taken a few over the years, mostly in state kids, but no more than 5 on the roster at anyone time. Plus, we would take them, but they have to sit a year, no football what so ever, get cleared by the NCAA to play and pass classes at ECU. Buie could not get into to school. We offere him and he signed his LOI to attend ECU, but never made it passed the NCAA clearing house. As he was a out of state student we didn't take him in to school and allow him to clear the NCAA here. He never came, so how did we take him????? I wait for answer...............................

(01-23-2013 10:17 PM)ecumbh1999 Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 07:59 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 07:22 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 03:43 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 03:32 PM)Fish Wrote:  We have a phenomenal home conference schedule:

HOME – East Carolina, Louisiana Tech, Marshall, UAB

If we don't have improved attendance this year, we never will :( Also have OOC home games with FCS Bethune-Cookman and host UCF (who we beat last time they came to Miami )

With 34 Marshall players from FL on the roster there should be a decent crowd at FIU and FAU. And our recruiting class isn't finished. There most likely will be othe FLunky players added.

FIFY

WAA WAA WAA BITC*

ECU takes NQer also. We can't help it yours just don't make the grades. See Chevelle Buie. Doc has taken NQes and only one hasn't made it.

DeAndre Kane was a NQ and will grad. after his JR year. Kane was actually diagnosed with learning disorder, as are most that end up as NQers. Marshall in the last 6 years have had 3 athletes grad with their Masters who started out at Marshall as a NQer.

Last year we took AJ Leggett who had a 23 on his ACT, not his fault that Miami admissions require a 26. This year we have 4 star Angelo Jean Louis who also wanted to go to Miami, he has already taken the ACT and has a 24, and will most likely be cleared.

Now go crawl back in you hole or up Leblow's a$$.

Buie? When did he make it on campus at ECU??? That's news to me. How can you take a kid and not have him on the team or in school????

We've taken a few over the years, mostly in state kids, but no more than 5 on the roster at anyone time. Plus, we would take them, but they have to sit a year, no football what so ever, get cleared by the NCAA to play and pass classes at ECU. Buie could not get into to school. We offere him and he signed his LOI to attend ECU, but never made it passed the NCAA clearing house. As he was a out of state student we didn't take him in to school and allow him to clear the NCAA here. He never came, so how did we take him????? I wait for answer...............................

So, you offered and had an LOI signed by an NQ'er. But since he, this example, didn't get in, it means you don't sign NQ'ers? You said, "We've taken a few over the years, mostly in-state kids..." BUT, you don't take NQ'ers? Hmmm. Does that mean that in-state kids who are NQ'ers are somehow not really NQ'ers? Are they really National Merit Finalists but you bring them in as NQ'ers to help hide them from other schools who might otherwise be interested?

Really? Do YOU believe what you post? Do you even read it?

(01-23-2013 04:12 PM)GrayBeard Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 02:54 PM)eaglerock Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 02:27 PM)mwp1023 Wrote:  I was looking forward to playing LA Tech before Skip and then really wanted to play them after they hired him. I really wish we could of had them next year.

USM got the shaft, they somehow got stuck in the sunbelt for 2013. May be a blessing in disguise because they do need W's right now more than anything.

USM at Denny Ficklin is a home game, look at the results.

Dowdy, not Denny. You guys aren't the USM of old. Can't wait to get this season underway.

Our worst season ever - EVER - and you guys pull out a late W. Don't be so sure that we won't be just a tad bit better coached next time around.

Very poorly organized scheduling. USM gets all new teams at home. They get both FIU & FAU at home. Tulsa gets all of RICE/UTSA/UNT at home & travels to Louisiana twice. Tulsa was due to play USM, instead we play Marshall again. Rice has to travel to Tulsa again. ECU should be happy, they get both Tulsa & USM @ home.

Apparently, the sudden decision to have MTSU & FAU come in a year early & make this a 14 team conference for 2013 was too much for our schedule makers. It appears to have been written up on a napkin over lunch.

(01-23-2013 10:31 PM)WinOrLoseEAGLE Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 10:17 PM)ecumbh1999 Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 07:59 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 07:22 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 03:43 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  With 34 Marshall players from FL on the roster there should be a decent crowd at FIU and FAU. And our recruiting class isn't finished. There most likely will be othe FLunky players added.

FIFY

WAA WAA WAA BITC*

ECU takes NQer also. We can't help it yours just don't make the grades. See Chevelle Buie. Doc has taken NQes and only one hasn't made it.

DeAndre Kane was a NQ and will grad. after his JR year. Kane was actually diagnosed with learning disorder, as are most that end up as NQers. Marshall in the last 6 years have had 3 athletes grad with their Masters who started out at Marshall as a NQer.

Last year we took AJ Leggett who had a 23 on his ACT, not his fault that Miami admissions require a 26. This year we have 4 star Angelo Jean Louis who also wanted to go to Miami, he has already taken the ACT and has a 24, and will most likely be cleared.

Now go crawl back in you hole or up Leblow's a$$.

Buie? When did he make it on campus at ECU??? That's news to me. How can you take a kid and not have him on the team or in school????

We've taken a few over the years, mostly in state kids, but no more than 5 on the roster at anyone time. Plus, we would take them, but they have to sit a year, no football what so ever, get cleared by the NCAA to play and pass classes at ECU. Buie could not get into to school. We offere him and he signed his LOI to attend ECU, but never made it passed the NCAA clearing house. As he was a out of state student we didn't take him in to school and allow him to clear the NCAA here. He never came, so how did we take him????? I wait for answer...............................

So, you offered and had an LOI signed by an NQ'er. But since he, this example, didn't get in, it means you don't sign NQ'ers? You said, "We've taken a few over the years, mostly in-state kids..." BUT, you don't take NQ'ers? Hmmm. Does that mean that in-state kids who are NQ'ers are somehow not really NQ'ers? Are they really National Merit Finalists but you bring them in as NQ'ers to help hide them from other schools who might otherwise be interested?

Really? Do YOU believe what you post? Do you even read it?

Where did I say we haven't ever taken NQ's? I didn't, Buie never made here, so how did we take him here if he didn't ever make to campus? So, back to the original question, how did we take Buie if he never made here? One would think that in order to take a kid he'd actually have to show up and take classes.

Read my post, YES we've taken NQ's, but only in-state students and just like at Marshall they have to attend classes and clear the NCAA for a year on their dime, before they can even walk into any of the coaches' offices. I'm taking issue with you saying we took a kid that NEVER went here. It's one thing to offer a kid and for him to sign, but not make and another to take a NQ and allow them to enroll at school as student. You picked a piss poor example, every school has a recuit or two that don't qualify every year. The difference is if you allow them to enroll and allow them qualify over a year at school or not.

We didn't take Buie for several reasons, out-state kid that won't be able to afford out-state costs at ECU and his grades ended up not even being close.

(01-23-2013 05:19 PM)Orange County Owl Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 04:26 PM)panicstricken Wrote:  Tulsa got bent over

No trips to Texas.

See you later CUSA.

We (Rice) are actually really frustrated that we have to travel to your place for a second straight year.

On paper, Rice/Tulsa should be competing for the 2013 West division title. And since we haven't beaten you guys in like 80 years (actually 2006), this would have been key. Don't get it at all.

(And, it would have given you a trip to Texas).

I love the rice tulsa games and despite rice stadiums faults it's a fun place to see a game in a great city. Lots of history at Rice stadium and I love the area around Rice. Houston is such a great city (inside the loop)

I was really looking forward to it this year. Plus it gives me a nice excuse to get a house in west Galveston and chill and surf the coast in the fall for a long weekend.

If we bolt in 2014 I feel like I'm getting cheated out of a farewell game at Rice Stadium.

I'm actually glad we're getting away from NQers. We've almost phased it out completely at this point. The difference is Marshall will take anybody with a pulse. It's going to bite you in the ass (again) sooner or later. The funny thing is, it doesn't seem to be helping Marshall's football program.

(01-23-2013 05:11 PM)HHOOTter Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 04:26 PM)panicstricken Wrote:  Tulsa got bent over

No trips to Texas.

See you later CUSA.

Tulsa plays @ UTEP
Last I checked, El Paso is still in Texas
& TU gets 3 Texas teams @ home

Come on hooter Juarez state isn't really in Texas.