(10-23-2016 11:46 AM)jaminniner Wrote: (10-23-2016 11:22 AM)stinkfist Wrote: (10-23-2016 10:29 AM)cb4029 Wrote: (10-23-2016 09:29 AM)jaminniner Wrote: (10-23-2016 08:29 AM)ah59396 Wrote: If I were a Charlotte fan, I'd pour it on Marshall all dang week.
We are just happy to win. We still have a lot of work to do before we can start acting like obnoxious jerks as you suggest. Marshall despite their struggles this year is still the flagship football program of the conference. They'll be back to their winning ways before you know it. No reason to poke the bear.
I'm going to pretend you did not say that.
lol....his comment reminds me of this....
USM I guess wants the lifetime achievement award but Marshall has been better in CUSA 3.0.
which ranks up there with millennial cherry pickin' talking points and memes....
my remark had nothing to with MAR success since joining coos coos or their success the last handful of years....it was relative to branding and what flagship means relative to recognition....
think about it....when you look at the BiG, do you think MICH/OSU/MSU or go, "man....WISC, MINN, NW, IND are the fizz-nizzy....
winning history and branding relative to recognition falls under the, "who are these other guys" category....you don't have to like it.....
one day you'll hopefully become old enough to understand how thingys actually work....
....and that is what MAR has done on the gridiron over the last handful of years.....however, now, like the rest of us, recruiting has become much more difficult with the addition of 20+ D1 (or whatever stupid acronym someone with nothing better to do changed it to) teams over the last few decades.....they now have a serious qb issue and apparently a coaching issue....
as a collective, the g5 are nothing more than spot hitters.....flagship is a spot hitting "flagship" role that doesn't exist in the g5 by definition....I don't think anyone thinks MAR is BSU or NIU....and BSU and NIU are realizing nobody really cares about them either.....the g5 is only and ever the underdog....shite, this conference can't even stream games 100%....if I can't see ya, why would I know 'it' exists?
and to pile on with this logic, MAR should've been a candidate for the ackk ahead of whooolame, tulswhooo, and smooomoowhooo
perception and historical achievement is one of those intangible immeasurables that still have value in the end....
you'll understand better in ~8 yrs when the uber flagship programs split and leave the water carrying sub-ords to scramble to figure it out with a shiteload less money and the perceived underdogs when their current tv contracts run out....
I could come with more, but that's enough....
have fun in your personal sandbox of interpreting your version of meaningful vs. 'our' version of meaningful....
we'll just see how she works out in the end.....I'm old enough where it's only coasting to the end game now...