From the new Herd Insider magazine......

Quote:Is Marshall Going For The American Athletic Conference?

don't think the athletic department is excited about joining a league where Marshall is about $15 million under the average budget in the AAC (around $43 million). But I'm hearing the new president of Marshall, Dr. Jerry Gilbert, likes the strong academic standing of schools likes UCONN, Tulsa, Tulane, SMU, and Navy that are in the American.

That is why a video presentation has been green lighted to promote Marshall....

Is that supposed to be a link?

No. That was the quote from the magazine.

Here is a picture of it on facebook.....

https://www.facebook.com/MUtoAAC/photos/...=3&theater

No thanks.

I don't know how we could ever get the budget near that....

$15M is a lot

I don't know why we ever moved to FBS with the way some of you think. I bet those of you against this move would have just given up on football in 1970.

(09-07-2016 12:00 PM)panama Wrote:  $15M is a lot

It's the entire budget of a few Belters...

(09-07-2016 12:00 PM)FlyHawk98 Wrote:  I don't know why we ever moved to FBS with the way some of you think. I bet those of you against this move would have just given up on football in 1970.

Nope. Actually, I would want a valid reason to move. While basketball is better which teams will be gone and then will it still be? Football? Pretty sure it's a 4 team playoff and the AAC has just as much access as any school not a so called "power" 5

Pretty sure that the best bowl opponents CUSA faces is teams from the AAC.

Why continue to play Charlotte when we could plat ECU again?

This is a no brainer in every way.

(09-07-2016 12:01 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(09-07-2016 12:00 PM)panama Wrote:  $15M is a lot

It's the entire budget of a few Belters...

Of some to be sure, especially a recent add.

Does the video involve members of the Marshall swim team and carrots? If so you guys are a shoe in.

This thread is hilarious... Remember the temper tantrum FlyHawk had when ODU fans were "pimping"? Then he creates this thread. Keep doing you FlyHawk, you give the rest of us something to laugh about.

ODU, let me know when you guys do something worth discussing.

(09-07-2016 12:39 PM)FlyHawk98 Wrote:  ODU, let me know when you guys do something worth discussing.

You mean something like making a video?

Can't fault them for trying I guess

It may be borderline plagiarism, but if you made one just like this I'm sure Marshall will be a shoo-in:

(09-07-2016 01:54 PM)ODU BBALL Wrote:  

(09-07-2016 12:39 PM)FlyHawk98 Wrote:  ODU, let me know when you guys do something worth discussing.

You mean something like making a video?

(09-07-2016 12:12 PM)MU ATO Wrote:  

(09-07-2016 12:00 PM)FlyHawk98 Wrote:  I don't know why we ever moved to FBS with the way some of you think. I bet those of you against this move would have just given up on football in 1970.

Nope. Actually, I would want a valid reason to move. While basketball is better which teams will be gone and then will it still be? Football? Pretty sure it's a 4 team playoff and the AAC has just as much access as any school not a so called "power" 5

What a super fan... More Money, better TV, better schedule, better bowls, better perception, better fan interest....

It couldn't matter one iota less if the OP thinks ODU "deserves" to be in the discussion.

Take a look around at the last five years of realignment and tell me how many of the moves were the most "deserving" candidates. By FlyHawk's pro Marshall centric qualifications, I'd say at least half of all realignment moves have been made with "more deserving" candidates out there.