Our players ABSOLUTELY need to see that statement by the Marshall AD about "Is it the best team we could play perception wise, not sure....."

Are you KIDDING me???!!! I want us to go down there & tear them to bits!

Is there or was there an NIU press conference?

I haven't seen any NIU videos since before the WMU game. Did they suddenly become the CIA or something? Did Huskiewire lose all their cameras in a freak accident?

(12-14-2014 02:16 PM)HuskieFootball Addict Wrote:  Our players ABSOLUTELY need to see that statement by the Marshall AD about "Is it the best team we could play perception wise, not sure....."

Are you KIDDING me???!!! I want us to go down there & tear them to bits!

Agreed. They need to have that play a few times on game week. Great bulletinboard material.

Quote:Herd fans wanted to remind the football community-at-large that G5 is not Division 3, or whatever they call it now.

Dude, I'm just being honest here -- you're wack in your thinking about G5 & P5. :)

You're talking as if G5 is a secondary class of schools in the FCS/D1AA! It's not -- nobody in their right mind thinks that. P5 isn't P5 isn't P5, and G5 isn't G5 isn't G5. Playing a 6-6 B1G team that majors in basketball isn't going to be better or SEEN AS BETTER than a Power G5 team that majors in football. You think they are. They're not.

If Marshall replaced Rhode Island game (that any mid-major would have stomped) -- with beating a 5-7 Illinois (who would be 5-7 if you beat them) -- you wouldn't rise over Boise St. You'd probably be #23 and Boise #24 (switched) when you both entered the rankings when you were undefeated -- but when you lost to W. Ky, you'd be basically where you're at now. You'd still have a weak schedule!

Now, since you didn't -- fine. If you decided to play 6-6 Illinois instead of 11-2 N. Illinois who's a G5 Power -- that would mean *LESS* on your resume and SoS in the eyes of analysts, pundits, the media, forum junkies, etc.

If NIU had the option and decided to play 6-6 Illinois instead of 12-1 Marshall who's a G5 Power -- that ALSO would mean *LESS* on their resume and SoS in the eyes of analysts, pundits, the media, forum junkies, etc.

Nobody thinks a G5 Power with 10+ wins is not-as-good as a 6-6 "blah" P5 team from the B1G or ACC. Akron isn't "wowed" upon by beating 6-6 Pitt. Marshall wouldn't be "vindicated" by beating a 6-6 Illinois. A team being a P5, by itself, doesn't mean a ton. It's the team IN the P5 conference and how good they are that does.

(12-14-2014 02:16 PM)HuskieFootball Addict Wrote:  Our players ABSOLUTELY need to see that statement by the Marshall AD about "Is it the best team we could play perception wise, not sure....."

Are you KIDDING me???!!! I want us to go down there & tear them to bits!

Pardon the defensiveness and pardon the observation... but if you are reviewing the bowl results on almost any site on the internet for any past year, there's little to no indication of how a given school performed in the year they played that bowl.

Point being... PERCEPTION-wise... if West Virginia had went 6-6, and the shoes were switched... I don't think we'd have much ground for complaint if your fans were chatting up how much better it might have been perception-wise if you'd chosen to play the MountainReers instead of playing a stout Marshall team in a bowl. WVU is Big XII...

To Joe Fan, that Big XII label implies something perhaps more than it ought, but there's no magic wand to fix that other than, over time, keep beating con5 (quick aside: can we please stop using their self-serving Power 5 term?) schools.

Switch back the shoes, and maybe hopefully you get it that it's merely the Big Ten label and the perception that goes with that that causes pause among Herd fans... that, and the lack of anything that would cause any fan reviewing the 2014 bowl results this time next year that will naturally cause them to remember/realize how much better NIU was than the big box university in Champaign.