Marshall winning the Sunbelt championship by about the same score that OHIO beat Miami, and reports are that he has not been given a new contract at MU, and will be somewhere else next year. One story has him at another SBC school — Southern Mississippi. There’s a lot happening today in college football that makes not sense to me. Have we entered the Twilight Zone, perhaps.

He was making basically the same money as Albin. Anyone think he’s worth giving a call?

We could certainly beat out USM.

I think Cromer should ask both of us to serve on the search committee.

Chad Pennington and the boys are behind the Marshall mess

Marshall announces Tony Gibson as their new head coach. That was fast.

https://x.com/HerdZone/status/1865839263842959450

They must have had a contingency plan already prepared. Great idea. :)

BTC, I realized he had been on shaky ground at least since the early part of the season due to what was perceived as a slow start so it was not an apples to apples comparison. However, and correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think that we have heard anything officially from the athletics department about any plan going forward for his replacement, or even acknowledging he’s gone for that matter. Even a simplistic “plan” of where we are and “we are on it” would be nice.

Marshall and Huff were at impasse on the contract negotiations. One rumor was that Huff didn't want a buyout clause in the new contract which was unacceptable to Marshall. One rumor is that Huff previously didn't accept two extensions for whatever reasons. Huff was looking to move up the food chain since he was hired. No problem with that, any good coach is not going to stay at G5 school when he can make a lot of money at a P5 school or an AAC school in the case of Ohio U.

Apparently when Huff started talking to Southern Miss not long ago, then the President of Marshall decided it was time to move on from Huff. Marshall began searching for a new coach right after they found out about the USM negoiations. Marshall found their candidate and signed him before the SBC Championship game.

Huff and his agent thought there would be better options for a new job, but that didn't materialize. Maybe Huff was using USM as a bargaining tool? In the end, Huff wanted to stay at Marshall, but Marshall had made the decision not to give him a new contract. I am sure Huff was hoping for a better job then USM, but in the end it was his only option.

Personally I had hoped that a comprise could have been made between Huff and Marshall. Huff is a master of the portal and his players love him. He recruited players who were never had problems or arrests. He isn't the best game day coach but he was improving.

Marshall players are now entering the portal and the bowl game against Army is going to be ugly.