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Thanks for sharing that good article. The coaches and team are focused for the task at hand this season so the last year in CAA should be very exciting.

Go Monarchs!

Great article!!

To the wise guy who commented in the article at the bottom. Small school? Really? We out draw their basketball program and sell more football season tickets. He says we will not win a game in C-USA. Oh how I will like to see his face in a couple of years.

(06-10-2012 12:07 PM)TedHead Wrote:  To the wise guy who commented in the article at the bottom. Small school? Really? We out draw their basketball program and sell more football season tickets. He says we will not win a game in C-USA. Oh how I will like to see his face in a couple of years.

That guy sounds like the JMU fans before we entered the CAA. Time to shut the haters up again.

That guy is what our team consistently uses to fuel their winning. Let em talk. Our teams continue to show up. But for every 1 of those talkers there are 99 others who welcome us and see the potential.

Great article, thanks for posting Herd Fan. Question: Does it seem like Marshall area papers have had a lot of stories about ODU? They're great stories, and very insightful, but just wondering why we're getting so much press. Don't see articles coming out of ECU and Charlotte about us. It is because Marshall is starved for a regional rival?

(06-10-2012 04:04 PM)Monarchs Wrote:  Great article, thanks for posting Herd Fan. Question: Does it seem like Marshall area papers have had a lot of stories about ODU? They're great stories, and very insightful, but just wondering why we're getting so much press. Don't see articles coming out of ECU and Charlotte about us. It is because Marshall is starved for a regional rival?

Its a little bit due to being starved for a regional rival. Much of it though, is that no other C-USA program gets as much local coverage as we do. The Herd has dedicated beat writers at the Huntington Herald Dispatch, Charleston Gazette, Charleston Daily Mail(until recently when he was hired sports editor), and WV Metronews. That's just online and print. The Huntington/Charleston market also has NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox affiliates.

We're very fortunate. Charleston and Huntington are the two largest cities in the state... and share a combined media market.

And don't take the comments in those articles too hard. Some may be legit but most of those people are WVU fans that get their rocks off by posing as Marshall fans and making comments. Eer fans that browse our message boards have access to the articles whenever they get posted to the MU boards. They usually give themselves away when they start "suggesting" we go back to the MAC or the Southern Conference.

It's very strange.

(06-10-2012 11:17 PM)MUTeke Wrote:  And don't take the comments in those articles too hard. Some may be legit but most of those people are WVU fans that get their rocks off by posing as Marshall fans and making comments. Eer fans that browse our message boards have access to the articles whenever they get posted to the MU boards. They usually give themselves away when they start "suggesting" we go back to the MAC or the Southern Conference.

It's very strange.

As Teke said most if not all the comments put down things in the comment box is usually Who fans. I used to read the comments just to get a laff at them. But after years of reading them I can almost tell you who comments on what article and what they say. If you ever really want to know what true Marshall fans think I would stroll over to one of the message boards first. Who fans are relegated to the smack boards on most Marshall message boards.

One note:

Quote: According to Radford, studies and questionnaires with the students and alumni brought up football once again in the mid 2000s.

In 2006, came the announcement. In 2008, came the hiring of new president John Broderick, a one-time Associated Press sports writer.

This is a false statement. I first attended ODU in 1999, and football talk was at the forefront of every homecoming. Homecoming then was a joke, and I felt like the student essentially ran out President Runte b/c she wasn't feeling the same vibe we were.

Nobody ran President Runte out. It was her forethought that got us football. She brought Football back to ODU.

(06-11-2012 09:21 AM)TedHead Wrote:  Nobody ran President Runte out. It was her forethought that got us football. She brought Football back to ODU.

Yep.

Read this article from the Virginian-Pilot in 2007: http://hamptonroads.com/node/251491

Quote:It's first down and miles to go, and leading the blocking is the effective - some say inspiring - administrator who works from the corner office with that intimate view of the stadium:

Quote:Mostly, what she knows about football is that she wants it for ODU.

(06-11-2012 10:15 AM)Monarchs Wrote:  

(06-11-2012 09:21 AM)TedHead Wrote:  Nobody ran President Runte out. It was her forethought that got us football. She brought Football back to ODU.

Yep.

Read this article from the Virginian-Pilot in 2007: http://hamptonroads.com/node/251491

Quote:It's first down and miles to go, and leading the blocking is the effective - some say inspiring - administrator who works from the corner office with that intimate view of the stadium:

Quote:Mostly, what she knows about football is that she wants it for ODU.

Thank you Monarchs for the assist!

You will not find many presidents who walk through the crowds at basketball games shaking hands and having discussions with fans, alumni, and students.

(06-11-2012 02:13 PM)TedHead Wrote:  You will not find many presidents who walk through the crowds at basketball games shaking hands and having discussions with fans, alumni, and students.

That always impressed me.

(06-11-2012 02:13 PM)TedHead Wrote:  You will not find many presidents who walk through the crowds at basketball games shaking hands and having discussions with fans, alumni, and students.

Or one that hand delivered home made cookies to students in the dorms.

Runte was a blessing for ODU in every way and did incredible work.

Gotta say having her walk around shaking hands, etc. at basketball games impressed me as well.

Yeah, I'm not sure why anyone that appreciates ODU sports would hate on Runte. Your take on that is 180 degrees away from just about anyone else I've ever talked to about it.

Love the Lady. She is a visionary.