My wife is in the other room watching the recording of the British wedding. I’ve missed game one and two of this series due to work, but have to admit today’s coverage, announcer, and score makes me want to watch the stupid wedding with her. This is bad. As someone who was in Huntington and Barboursville regularly during the Pruett era, MU should be too proud to continue to allow baseball to be such a non-concern.

(05-19-2018 10:32 AM)Eagle in the gym Wrote:  My wife is in the other room watching the recording of the British wedding. I’ve missed game one and two of this series due to work, but have to admit today’s coverage, announcer, and score makes me want to watch the stupid wedding with her. This is bad. As someone who was in Huntington and Barboursville regularly during the Pruett era, MU should be too proud to continue to allow baseball to be such a non-concern.

1. Herd Vision is in its infancy.
2. The game is two hours from campus (it’s in Beckley). I’m just happy they’re getting a feed from there. That stadium is not set up for video broadcast.
3. On top of all of that, a team with already low expectations was decimated by injury this year.

Marshall needs to build a baseball stadium for the program to have a chance at succeeding, period. Waggoner has done all he can do with smoke and mirrors. Sometimes they exceed expectation greatly but talk about playing behind the 8-ball in C-USA baseball.

We’ve been in this situation for a QUARTER-CENTURY. Not an exaggeration. We need to follow UTEP and North Texas and offer a less expensive sport that leaked sense for a school in our situation.

As a Marshall fan sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be better to drop baseball and either add LAX, men's track (cut in the late 80s) or men's wrestling (cut in the early 80s).

Marshall has been trying to build a baseball stadium in Huntington for the past 40 years. The one place in Huntington that Marshall used to play, St Cloud Commons isn't suitable to build a stadium on, for its a swamp a lot of times. Marshall stopped playing there in the 90s because it was always underwater.

St Cloud Commons Baseball Field

The one place Marshall has always coveted as the area were a baseball stadium should go is an abandoned property that used to house the ACF Industries. Business owner and former casino owner Carl Icahn owns the property and wants a kings ransom for it. Always been to rich for Marshall to even try and buy.

The score is no longer ugly. If you aren’t watching, 10-7 and MU won’t die.

And now the final is 18-9... Ugliest game of the year for both teams I suppose.

(05-19-2018 01:34 PM)nastybunch Wrote:  And now the final is 18-9... Ugliest game of the year for both teams I suppose.

Nope. Should have saw how Marshall lost to Virginia Tech. Herd had the strikeout for the final out on a swing and miss in the dirt with the lead in the 9th. Catcher blocked it perfectly, rounded the ball, threw to first and it skipped off the glove, allowing game to continue. The throw wasn’t even high. VT then strung together several hits to win it.

That was the ugliest for Marshall. This? Nothing out of the ordinary.

Marshall should have dropped baseball years ago. No one care about this sport. Last I checked our average attendance was 82.... that is not a typo, that is eighty-two. Even more sad is I truly think we count players, refs, coaches, concession stand workers, and security in that attendance of 82 lol.

(05-19-2018 09:54 PM)herdfan129 Wrote:  Marshall should have dropped baseball years ago. No one care about this sport. Last I checked our average attendance was 82.... that is not a typo, that is eighty-two. Even more sad is I truly think we count players, refs, coaches, concession stand workers, and security in that attendance of 82 lol.

Here’s something I posted on our board earlier this week about Marshall’s attendance woes. Maybe not the best comparison as USM is annually in top 25 in attendance but considering both of us are CUSA schools it’s got merit. And for the record Marshall attendance this weekend was 50, 55 and 60 for the 3 games vs USM. Stats below were compiled before the weekend series


- Marshall averages 151 for home games
- We had a higher announced attendance for last night's game vs UNO (3,485) than they've had combined for all 19 home games (2,872)
- We had more for our opening weekend series vs Ms State (14,906) than they've had all season home and away combined in 46 total games (14,689)

Our basketball attendance has been about as bad as Marshall baseball the last few years...and if we played 2 hours away we would prolly average 60!

We're slowly recovering and looks like Doc might actually have a respectable team this year..and I emphasize MIGHT!

(Trivia---Beckley is where the guy that ate McDonalds every day for a year is from!)

What the hell are we playing in Beckley for anyway if only 50-60 people are showing up for the games? That a bus ride and tolls that we don't need to be spending. Going to Charleston is bad enough.

(05-19-2018 11:41 AM)CoachMaclid Wrote:  We’ve been in this situation for a QUARTER-CENTURY. Not an exaggeration. We need to follow UTEP and North Texas and offer a less expensive sport that leaked sense for a school in our situation.

This.

If your fanbase isn’t interested and you won’t give it the resources, it is way too expensive of a sport to maintain. Just end the program.

The simple fact is that we are northern most team in the conference and the way the weather is just doesn't sync up well with the college baseball schedule. If I'm not mistaken, Oregon State and Minnesota are the only northern top 25 teams.

If you are a good player, why come to play in Huntington where you have to practice indoors and play the first few months of the season on the road? Even if we built a great stadium I don't think we would ever be good except a rare occurrence where we luck into a pitcher or two who blossoms late.

Waggoner has done his job with what he has to work with. The last coach to really do anything with the baseball program was Jack Cook (1966-1989). It helped though for 8 years straight the he had Rick Reed and Jeff Montgomery. Both were aces on the mound with a decent bull pen to back them up.

As I said we would probably do better with LAX, men's track or men's wrestling. All three would be more cost effective more than baseball.

(05-19-2018 02:51 PM)ThunderingHerdFan Wrote:  

(05-19-2018 01:34 PM)nastybunch Wrote:  And now the final is 18-9... Ugliest game of the year for both teams I suppose.

Nope. Should have saw how Marshall lost to Virginia Tech. Herd had the strikeout for the final out on a swing and miss in the dirt with the lead in the 9th. Catcher blocked it perfectly, rounded the ball, threw to first and it skipped off the glove, allowing game to continue. The throw wasn’t even high. VT then strung together several hits to win it.

That was the ugliest for Marshall. This? Nothing out of the ordinary.

Its college baseball. Might as well be women's diving in Huntington, and in most places I suppose. I could not care less if they lost eveey game to be honest, and if they won every game and won a national title, id say "how about that, go herd" amd nevee think about it again.

(05-20-2018 03:10 AM)goherd24herdfans Wrote:  

(05-19-2018 02:51 PM)ThunderingHerdFan Wrote:  

(05-19-2018 01:34 PM)nastybunch Wrote:  And now the final is 18-9... Ugliest game of the year for both teams I suppose.

Nope. Should have saw how Marshall lost to Virginia Tech. Herd had the strikeout for the final out on a swing and miss in the dirt with the lead in the 9th. Catcher blocked it perfectly, rounded the ball, threw to first and it skipped off the glove, allowing game to continue. The throw wasn’t even high. VT then strung together several hits to win it.

That was the ugliest for Marshall. This? Nothing out of the ordinary.

Its college baseball. Might as well be women's diving in Huntington, and in most places I suppose. I could not care less if they lost eveey game to be honest, and if they won every game and won a national title, id say "how about that, go herd" amd nevee think about it again.

Thanks for caring so much you had to make sure everyone was aware of your lack of caring.

You really showed us.

clt asks how did Pippa look?

(05-20-2018 06:29 AM)ghostofclt Wrote:  clt asks how did Pippa look?

If you ever come to Hattiesburg, you’re invited to our tailgate.

(05-20-2018 12:03 AM)banker Wrote:  The simple fact is that we are northern most team in the conference and the way the weather is just doesn't sync up well with the college baseball schedule. If I'm not mistaken, Oregon State and Minnesota are the only northern top 25 teams.

If you are a good player, why come to play in Huntington where you have to practice indoors and play the first few months of the season on the road? Even if we built a great stadium I don't think we would ever be good except a rare occurrence where we luck into a pitcher or two who blossoms late.

Just curious I haven't been up that way very often but down here in the south most kids play baseball and then other sports. We do have great weather and a wealth of talent (some leagues start as young as 3). What is it like up there? I lived in Ohio for a while and while the Reds where big there didn't seem to be the emphasis on youth baseball, I'd say soccer and basketball were pretty big there. Field hockey may have even been equal to the baseball I saw there on an organizational level. Can you give me an idea, it's hard for some of us from the south to not realize baseball isn't always the first sport a kid walks into.

(05-20-2018 07:19 AM)Eagle in the gym Wrote:  

(05-20-2018 06:29 AM)ghostofclt Wrote:  clt asks how did Pippa look?

If you ever come to Hattiesburg, you’re invited to our tailgate.

Great unis all around. Jolly good show.