recently announced 1 for 1 series with Cincinnati and Boise. Playing the other top G5 teams and battling for the lone access spot. Take it out of the CFP committee's hands by settling it on the field.
Marshall doing what they should do
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Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Is banker really bragging about scheduling two mid majors? Wow...
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I think the committee was very clear that they basically reward G5 teams playing and challenging P5's. I guess Hamrick still doesn't get it. Maybe he does. Smoke & mirrors approach once again.
Boise? Maybe. But Cincy does nothing for you.
I still can't imagine imagine going to another team's board to brag about scheduling two mid-majors...
I don't think he's trying to brag, at least I hope not. We know where Marshall and WVU stand. Their goal is the access spot, ours is the Big XII championship and a playoff spot.
What is the highest ranked team you've beaten in the last 3 years?
Boise ... kinda.
Cincinnati ... not really.
Step up and play somebody. You want to prove something on the field? Go play UGA between the hedges. Play Notre Dame on a neutral field. Schedule home and home with Oklahoma.
Boise, Cincinnati ... pfffft.
Who cares? Why bring it up here? Boise? Cincinnati? Both will be unranked but, better than your usual competition. Baby steps.....
Yah, Boise is Top 30. That is a good increase from anyone on their schedule this year, but not something I'd be beating my chest about...
Country is the only one of you smart enough to understand. That's sad. We don't have to beat Georgia or Notre Dame to go to the access bowl and collect our large check. We have to be the highest ranked G5 champion. By playing and beating the team's likely to be at or near the top of the other G5 conferences we basically can eliminate the competition.
Tallest midget sort of thing..... I get it. But, not sure why you think anyone here cares about ant ball......
The only large check you guys collect is the large welfare check from the state, every year...
So essentially you are acknowledging you will never have a shot at ever making the playoffs and are just happy to be in the running for a bowl game. Okay... sounds defeatist to me, but whatever takes you home at night, I guess.
I have to say though, I would be willing to drive to Humpingdump to see Boise play. I like Boise and wouldn't mind seeing them join the B12 for football only.
Get it ... you don't care about national respect or really proving anything on the field.
You just want to be the best surfer in North Dakota and never travel to Hawaii, South Africa or Australia.
What you're really admitting is that in FBS there is two different leagues and you have no interest in competing with the varsity squads. That really, like the old 1-A and 1-AA, you are just an FBS-AA team.
Of course there are 2 divisions of FBS, who's disputing that? That's what makes your guys "0-12" smack so funny while you get whipped up on season after season since joining the other half of FBS. The Big East was the bridge between the two levels of FBS. When they dissolved the dividing point was set. You did great in the Big East because you were better than the bottom half and didn't have compete consistently with the top half.
Think about what the Big East really was. The teams that are still there from your days, Uconn, USF, Cincinnati, can't even compete for the AAC crown, getting whipped by old cusa teams. You guys, Louisville, Pitt, Rutgers and Cuse are whipping boys in the bigger conferences. You make fun of Marshall's wins being against weak competition, but that's what you built your resume on with Rich Rod. You beat a bunch of schools that were in over their head, even in the Big East, like we beat schools that are in over their heads in cusa.
Think about what the Big East really was. The teams that are still there from your days, Uconn, USF, Cincinnati, can't even compete for the AAC crown, getting whipped by old cusa teams. You guys, Louisville, Pitt, Rutgers and Cuse are whipping boys in the bigger conferences. You make fun of Marshall's wins being against weak competition, but that's what you built your resume on with Rich Rod. You beat a bunch of schools that were in over their head, even in the Big East, like we beat schools that are in over their heads in cusa.
I seem to remember beating SEC, Big XII and ACC schools regularly during that time as well.
What makes people like you so unintentionally funny is that you come here and bad mouth a team that you've never beaten, and that plays in a league that you're too afraid to step up and play in. You beat your chests about your 1-AA titles (why you do that with a team that never played in that division something I'll never understand, it's like an OSU fan thumping their chests to an Atlanta Falcons fan because they've never won the super bowl), and all of the wins that you have in a league that you admit isn't close to being on par with the league we play in.
If you played Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Baylor, TCU and beat them, then your statements might make sense. But you try to put us down for losing to top 5 teams while you brag about your winning games against teams ranked 150-200.
It makes no sense ... I suppose to you guys it does.
Do you have North Dakota State fans coming to your boards and trying to laugh at you for losing to Ohio, or WKU? No, because it seems that's it's only Marshall fans who don't understand how foolish those statements are.
You guys are a special kind of ..... something
Nope, your the one that doesn't understand the system, or you wouldn't beat your chest over the 0-12 thing.
Here's how it works. There are two groups of FBS teams, those with budgets over $60MM and those with budgets under that number. You compete with the 65 teams above that number, we compete with the ones under that number. You feeling good about 0-12 is akin to the guy who has a Porsche boasting because he can outrun a guy who can only afford a Ford Fusion. He's not faster because he's better, he's faster because he has more resources.
We make fun of you because out of those 65 teams you are a part of, you are in the bottom 25-30%. Your ROI for all the money you're spending is terrible. We make fun of you because most of your fans actually thought that you were a power program, not necessarily elite, but one of the top 15-25 programs in the country. That was built on the false premise that winning a few one game scenarios against real top teams validated your regular season wins against USF and Uconn as meaningful. You guys, at best, have done nothing more than Boise State, which means you are a very elite G5 type team, but have been exposed when you have to play high resource teams week in and week out.
Here's how it works. There are two groups of FBS teams, those with budgets over $60MM and those with budgets under that number. You compete with the 65 teams above that number, we compete with the ones under that number. You feeling good about 0-12 is akin to the guy who has a Porsche boasting because he can outrun a guy who can only afford a Ford Fusion. He's not faster because he's better, he's faster because he has more resources.
We make fun of you because out of those 65 teams you are a part of, you are in the bottom 25-30%. Your ROI for all the money you're spending is terrible. We make fun of you because most of your fans actually thought that you were a power program, not necessarily elite, but one of the top 15-25 programs in the country. That was built on the false premise that winning a few one game scenarios against real top teams validated your regular season wins against USF and Uconn as meaningful. You guys, at best, have done nothing more than Boise State, which means you are a very elite G5 type team, but have been exposed when you have to play high resource teams week in and week out.
We don't beat our chests over the 0-12 ... just make fun of fans of a team that's 0-12 against us telling us we suck. We don't run to the message boards of say ... Texas ... and brag about being 12-0 against you. It would be an embarrassment if we weren't, just like it would be an embarrassment if we ever lost to a MAC team.
You don't have to explain to me how it works, I know how it works. Why are you here bragging about wins in that lesser division? Yes, we started 0-4 this year, but to say we have been exposed playing high resource teams week in and week out is a bit of a stretch. OK is the only one we haven't beaten since we've been in the conference (although we did beat them in the Fiesta Bowl when many were saying they should have been in the title game). Baylor? Top 5, beat them last year and we are 2-2 against them overall. TCU? Top 5, needed FG at the buzzer and 5 turnovers to beat us last year. Beat Texas in Austin, etc.
It's nice to finally see some Marshall fan acknowledge their place in the hierarchy though.
Marshall ... simply lesser.
So, beating teams in your conference in different years, but the overall result is that you remain in the bottom of your conference every single year means you are right where you want to be? I guess by your philosophy, it also puts you in the top 15-20 teams in the country every year?
That's strange, because you haven't finished ranked the entire time you've been in the Big Xii. You haven't been to an elite bowl either.
I know it pisses you off to hear it from Marshall fans, but it doesn't change the fact that what Banker is trying to get through your thick skull is still true.
That's strange, because you haven't finished ranked the entire time you've been in the Big Xii. You haven't been to an elite bowl either.
I know it pisses you off to hear it from Marshall fans, but it doesn't change the fact that what Banker is trying to get through your thick skull is still true.
Granted, we have a limited sample size, but it would appear as if they are.
Since 2012, through last night, you are 13-24 against teams from the P5 conferences. You are 6-16 in those games against teams with a winning record, 7-8 against teams that ended with a losing record. Luckily for you, you are 8-0 against G5 (4-0) and FCS (4-0) opponents.
You guys have been beyond bad since you have been forced to play most of your games against teams with similar resources. Why do Marshall fans brag? Because we are dominating the teams we are playing that have similar resources. During the same timeframe Marshall has gone 28-10 against other G5 teams and even 2-3 against higher resource P5 teams. That's a better winning percentage against P5 teams than wvu, albeit a small sample size. We have only lost 1 game in 3 1/2 years to a team in our resource group with a losing record. We beat who we are suppose to beat, the bad teams at our level. You are under .500 against the bad teams at your level. That means you're a bad team at your level.
You guys have been beyond bad since you have been forced to play most of your games against teams with similar resources. Why do Marshall fans brag? Because we are dominating the teams we are playing that have similar resources. During the same timeframe Marshall has gone 28-10 against other G5 teams and even 2-3 against higher resource P5 teams. That's a better winning percentage against P5 teams than wvu, albeit a small sample size. We have only lost 1 game in 3 1/2 years to a team in our resource group with a losing record. We beat who we are suppose to beat, the bad teams at our level. You are under .500 against the bad teams at your level. That means you're a bad team at your level.
It's cute how much time you spend obsessing over us, compiling your stats, etc.
But please continue with your best-surfer-in-North-Dakota rants.
And for the record, we don't have anywhere near the resources that a lot of these teams we are playing have. I think we have about half of what TX does, as an example ...
(I don't even care about this fact or to make this argument, I just know it will spool you up to go do a bunch of research and compare our budgets ... dance puppet dance)
You eer fans are confusing. You want to brag about all this money you have now from the Big 12 but still want to act like your poor when it suits your argument. How does your budget compare to TCU?
Also, liked your quote from your other post, you don't care about the facts? No doubt, the facts don't work well for wvu.
I'm not acting like we are poor ... just stating facts. Yes, we make TONS more money in the Big XII than we did before, and yes, our budget it about half of TX's. Both things can be true ... talk about struggling with facts.
And since you want to continue this ... your claim is that you're doing great among your peers in the G5 conferences, but the reality is that you aren't, because even among the G5 schools, you are coming anywhere close to playing the best. You just play the worst of the worst and brag about how great you're doing. Comical.
