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RE: % of lettermen returning
If you don't understand that we have been maiigned for taking NQs you need to pull your head out of the sand. A poster in this thread suggested there ought to be a yearly limit. Its killing their butts and I love every moment.
06-10-2015 03:01 PM
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RE: % of lettermen returning
(06-10-2015 10:38 AM)TheFIUtheproud Wrote:  
(06-09-2015 03:00 PM)ThunderingHerdFan Wrote:  
(06-09-2015 01:27 PM)TheFIUtheproud Wrote:  
(06-09-2015 01:09 PM)FlyHawk98 Wrote:  You guys are wrong about Corey Tindal. You keep bringing up his name, but he did not come to our school as a NQ.

You are correct, he did not qualify at FIU right out of high school, but he then took a PREP season at Atlanta Sports Academy. THEN he signed with Marshall, and RS his freshmen year.

Corey Tindal was signed as a prep school recruit......nice try though.


http://www.herdzone.com/sports/m-footbl/...57561.html

Reading comprehension is skill that can be developed. It requires concentration, an ability to read, analytical ability, and a desire to understand what the writer is saying.

With this said, you may want to go back and read what I wrote (and the other poster). We never said he was an NQ. Simply put he signed with FIU and did not meet FIU's minimum standards. Later, he went to Marshall. Presumably because Marshall has the lowest academic standards in the nation. For the reading challenged: this last sentence IS a jab. Feel free to go crazy and insult FIU like you have done a thousand times. Some of you Marshall fans are just wacky SOBs.

Simple logic here: if he wanted to go to FIU, he would have gone back to FIU after his Prep School year.

He chose Marshall. It's worked out well for him as he has played a ton in his time here.

Sometimes, timing is everything. Doesn't mean he would have been any less effective or had any less of a career at FIU. However, while you make guesses to explain the situation, it's best to stick to known facts. He signed at FIU, he was not permitted to enroll at FIU, he went to Prep School, he became eligible to go where he chose, and he chose Marshall.

To add any more is conjecture.

That's not to say the next guy won't go to FIU and have a fine career.

Just don't tip into the UCF range of "how do they beat us at basketball? Hire their coach!" Which really hasn't worked out for either of us :/ (although I have no reason to say a bad thing about Dan D'Antoni...he inherited a MESS...including some thieves and liars who are being exposed one by one).

What? Simple logic: I never said anything that would lead a reasonable person to respond the way you have.

I never said he chose FIU after prep school! But then again, how did you make this leap of logic. What makes you think that he was re-recruited by FIU. Is that not an assumption on your part?

I said the following and will say it again. He signed with FIU and did not meet our minimum academic standards. He met Marshall's academic criteria. Period. He ended up at Marshall where he will do well academically. That's all. My point and that of the Rice and MT writers is that Marshall has a competitive advantage over the rest of us. What is so dang hard to understand??????????????????????????????????????

No he did not. How hard is it to understand.

He had to go to prep school BEFORE he met the criteria to come to Marshall.

Had he just skipped prep school and enrolled straight to Marshall, your statement would be correct.

Once again, he had to go to prep school to have good enough grades for Marshall as well. Period.
06-10-2015 05:49 PM
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RE: % of lettermen returning
Most here seem to forget the good this does the kids that would otherwise be on the streets, and certainly not be getting their degrees in most cases. Its a good program that gives these kids a second chance, and for some, launches them into dream land, playing in the NFL and changes their whole family trees trajectory forever.
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(06-08-2015 08:57 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  "Look, I don't care if Marshall takes NQ's, but you must acknowledge that it gives you an advantage".

Its about the only advantage that NP5 schools have now and why the MWC and AACk decided as a conference not to allow them then is just making it that much more hard for most of the schools.

A few years back we had ECUers screaming at us for taking them, especially after their epic 59-28 beat down. What they failed to see or rather say is that before Terry Holland arrived they took NQer and a ton of them. The 2001 GMAC Bowl -- Marshall vs ECU, out of the starters for ECU that game 18 of the 22 starters started out as NQers. And the only reason they stopped taking them was to hope they would be noticed by the BE, which never happened.

Doc is extremely selective on who he takes, and none of those who have made it to Huntington have failed out or not made the field.
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RE: % of lettermen returning
(06-10-2015 11:29 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  
(06-08-2015 08:57 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  "Look, I don't care if Marshall takes NQ's, but you must acknowledge that it gives you an advantage".

Its about the only advantage that NP5 schools have now and why the MWC and AACk decided as a conference not to allow them then is just making it that much more hard for most of the schools.

A few years back we had ECUers screaming at us for taking them, especially after their epic 59-28 beat down. What they failed to see or rather say is that before Terry Holland arrived they took NQer and a ton of them. The 2001 GMAC Bowl -- Marshall vs ECU, out of the starters for ECU that game 18 of the 22 starters started out as NQers. And the only reason they stopped taking them was to hope they would be noticed by the BE, which never happened.

Doc is extremely selective on who he takes, and none of those who have made it to Huntington have failed out or not made the field.

Should have quoted the whole post.
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RE: % of lettermen returning
It's funny when we were losing and no threat we got treated as cute little Marshall and "We hope you guys can get back to where you once were." "We're rooting for you" etc etc.

But now that we're back it's turned to we'll take anybody, it's insinuated players aren't really earning those grades, our entire team are props who are convicted felons.

Just an observation.

*note this doesn't refer to all of you or even anyone in particular. Just a tone I've noticed on this board towards Marshall during the last 6-7 years or so.
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(06-11-2015 10:43 AM)MUsince96 Wrote:  It's funny when we were losing and no threat we got treated as cute little Marshall and "We hope you guys can get back to where you once were." "We're rooting for you" etc etc.

But now that we're back it's turned to we'll take anybody, it's insinuated players aren't really earning those grades, our entire team are props who are convicted felons.

Just an observation.

*note this doesn't refer to all of you or even anyone in particular. Just a tone I've noticed on this board towards Marshall during the last 6-7 years or so.

ECU started it.
06-11-2015 10:51 AM
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(06-11-2015 10:51 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  
(06-11-2015 10:43 AM)MUsince96 Wrote:  It's funny when we were losing and no threat we got treated as cute little Marshall and "We hope you guys can get back to where you once were." "We're rooting for you" etc etc.

But now that we're back it's turned to we'll take anybody, it's insinuated players aren't really earning those grades, our entire team are props who are convicted felons.

Just an observation.

*note this doesn't refer to all of you or even anyone in particular. Just a tone I've noticed on this board towards Marshall during the last 6-7 years or so.

ECU started it.

1000% agree. I'm very surpised a Marshall recruiting thread hasn't deteriorated into a Marshall/ECU pissing match.
06-11-2015 10:56 AM
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(06-11-2015 10:56 AM)MUsince96 Wrote:  1000% agree. I'm very surpised a Marshall recruiting thread hasn't deteriorated into a Marshall/ECU pissing match.

Poor ECU is picked to finish in the bottom third of their league this year. They are falling on hard times. We hope you guys at ECU can get back to where you once were. We're rooting for you.
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