It is Jeff.  But you know what they say, great minds think alike... and so do ours.

That's the saddest commentary I've ever heard regarding any school's fanbase. If Ohio lost to someone, and an Ohio journalist wrote something like that, I'd be ashamed for him. He takes poor sportsmanship to a whole new level. Contrast Herdistan to Penn State last year - their fans weren't happy to lose to Ohio, but gave Ohio it's due.

I tried to find the athletic budget number from last year for Ohio and Marshall, and they were Ohio 27,000,000+, Marshall 24,000,000 plus, so a whole 3 million lower for Marshall. That bigger stadium isn't very useful when they've never filled it either

I did a simple google search and found a story regarding faculty at Marshall wanting the university to review the athletics budget at the university. According to a story this past May in the Herald Dispatch, Marshall's athletics budget is $24.8 million. This amount represents approximately 13% of the university's total budget.

I have not been able to find Ohio's most recent budget.

Sometimes, people who make sweeping, factually incorrect statements need to be proven wrong.

And they probably spend at least $1 million more on travel expenses....so probably a larger disparity in what's available to teams.

Marshall touts their move to CUSA as producing a $1 million annual cash windfall for the department. I agree that travel cost alone drain most if not every penny of that amount. Does anyone know for sure that the MAC tv rights are being renegotiated? I read a story on Miami in the Cincy Equirer that stated ESPN was going to pay $1 million per school annually. That would be a nice influx of revenue without adding new expenses to the departments budget.

That's a valid point. But the fact is Ohio is already playing more weeknight games than most MAC schools. So the university is already taking that revenue hit. If Ohio had not already been playing those weeknight games then I would agree with you.

He's an embarrassment. Any time you find a "journalist", using the term loosely, that thinks they know more than the coaches, you have to think about what it might be like if that "journalist" was actually coach and chuckle.

In any case, it's best to focus on the positive. Ohio doesn't get a lot of local press coverage, but the quality of what they do get is outstanding. Arkley is as good as any sportswriter around. He's thorough, competent, understands the game, and is respectful to foes. The same can be said of the Athens News coverage, when they have have it, or the Post, or WOUB.

Actually, we are now back  in the Huntington-Charleston Market, hence TWC has replaced at least one Columbus HD station with a W.Va. HD station.  At lot of people are angry about that; however, that's another story.

Let me translate Chuck's latest outburst for you. I feel I'm the most qualified person on this board to perform that feat.   If you read between the lines he's really saying that Ohio is much better coached than Marshall.  That's a point that I won't dispute.  If you note in the reader comments below his column at least two of the MU fans pick up on this "unacceptable loss" theme with assertions that MU has all this superior talent.  That's simply not true.  Marshall has some very good talent, but it's not any better than what Ohio has at this point.  That wasn't true back in the Knorr, PapaL and Old Freak Nasty years, but it is now.  We are getting pretty good talent and we are "coaching them up" as well.  I'm not sure about class rank in terms of the rating services, but any half-way knowledgeable fan knows that those ratings don't really mean all that much when it comes to actual on-the-field performance.  

Today's complaint is that Terd schedules too many games against MAC teams that they can't beat (2-4 under Holliday, although three of the losses are to Ohio).   The reason so many MAC teams are on the schedule is to give fans a chance to have nearby OOC road games they could go to.  That's a real problem with being in a conference that's so spread out.  Fans don't have as good an opportunity to see their team on the road. 

I think his real problem is that he can't fathom how "superiority" off the field (money, resources, administration) doesn't automatically translate to wins on the field.  The factor he's missing is that it all comes down to recruiting and coaching.  He can't openly admit (he does it tacitly) that Ohio does a better job at both.

I know you put the "moderate" in Moderator (that's a compliment!), but you're off base here. His columns are no better than a message board rant from a delusional fan. I get that columns are opinions, but his are replete with obvious inaccuracies and petty invective.

The point is that if its unacceptable , what are you going to do about it? You fire the coaches, get new players, or quit playing Ohio since there're so far below you. Make your choice.