Obviously, facts do not mean anything to this guy.  Assuming that MU's athletic budget last year was $24.8M and further assuming that this figure represents approximately 13% of MU's entire annual budget, then it appears that MU's budget last year would be approximately $191M.  If true, that represents about 1/3rd of OUr annual budget which is somewhere around $600M.  Secondly, our athletic budget last year was a little over $28M which is somewhere close to $4M greater than what MU spent.  So how can we be the weak, poor sister to MU that Landon infers in his columns?  Granted, the Joan holds more then OUr beloved Peden, but that is where the superiority ceases.  We have been to more bowl games in both football and basketball in recent years.  In the last 3 years we have owned MU in football, and if you look at the overall series record, we still own MU.  Finally, as for CUSA, if we were in that conference we would be undefeated right now (2-0) against a couple of the "better" teams in that conference.  Even Bowling Green trucked that conference's "premier" team on opening night when it crushed Tulsa. 

So what do I take from Chuck's column?  It just proves to me that he is a bush-league writer for a small newspaper in Jerkwater, America writing about a joke of a so-called "university" (I use that term loosely).  Basicallly, if he was writing about OUr program I would consider him nothing more than an embarrassment.  As it stands, his column only serves to reinforce most peoples' beliefs that Marshall is small-time and the Huntington Dispatch and Chuck Landon are bit players in some out-of-the-way place in West Virginia. 

GO BOBCATS!

Nope. Never clicked on the link. But if his mission is to laugh at him while not patronizing his paper, fly the banner!

You guys have used this excuse the last 3 years.  Not to mention the losers on your message boards that blame officiating.  Ultimately it comes down to talent, smarts and coaching.  We beat you on all three counts.

mckayt, you can't back up your assertion that you guys would have won by three or four TDs without the turnovers.

But really, last I heard, turnovers are part of the game.  Ohio forced two out of the four Marshall turnovers.  That's a weakness of the Herd program, especially over the past three years vs. Ohio.  It isn't just a "luck" thing.

Chuck Landon writes the same tripe regarding men's basketball, with the same reasons for why it's "unacceptable" to lose to Ohio.  Yet, the Herd keeps getting clocked by MAC teams like Ohio and Akron.

Good luck the rest of the season.  I really do root for Marshall except when they play Ohio.

you live in a fantasy world. Once Ohio went up by 2 scores in the 2nd quarter they controlled the pace for the rest of the game and bled the clock to prevent Marshall from having more possessions. Marshall never had the lead and never tied after it was 7-7, Ohio played slow, grind it out, drain the clock football on purpose. The lead was never in doubt, there was never a reason for Ohio to play up tempo.

BUT, in your little mind, without the turnovers Marshall would have scored more points early, and for some reason that makes absolutely no sense Ohio would have completely ignored this and would have continued to play at a slow, methodical, grind it out pace, totally oblivious to the scoreboard and the word around them. really?

and let's not forget, regardless of turnovers, Marshall's defense, full of "more talented" players, COULD NOT GET OFF THE FIELD. Marshall had zero turnovers in the 3rd quarter but only had the ball for ONE possession. How is Marshall going to run up the score when they are down by 2 TDs but only get the ball 1 time in the 3rd quarter?

Face it, Marshall didn't lose, Marshall got beat.

First of all, he's not under our skin. He's a punchline.  We read his column because it's so pathetically predictable. He reads like a bad poster on a message board. 

As for the game, you are correct, if Marshall doesn't turnover the ball they probably win.  The problem is that you do turn the ball over...and Ohio wins...and wins...and wins.   If you read the Marshall message boards you would think that there isn't a player on Ohio that could even see a locker room at Marshall.  Yet, we beat you and keep beating you and if you've paid any kind of attention Ohio is actually a better football program than Marshall and has been for a few years now.  The players we get may not be as highly graded when they leave high school but they certainly are when they leave college.  Think about that.

And by the way,  lather, rinse, repeat for basketball season.

......or for almost any other sport.  This is the pattern across the board.  They make mistakes. We don't.

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All 4 of the turnovers were in situations where Marshall had not crossed midfield.  Why does every Marshall fan assume that each of those 4 possessions would have resulted in 7 points? 

• If Marshall has the superior athletes, then why can't a running back absorb a powerful hit (not once, but twice) from one of our "smaller, slower, weaker" defensive players that basically popped him in the mouth? 
• If Marshall has superior athletes, why can't they find one kick returner that can actually catch a ball kicked to him?
• If Marshall has superior athletes, why can't they find a wide receiver to run a 10 yard curl route without falling flat on his face on brand new, dry turf?

Turnovers and field postion matter.  Ohio won both.  Ohio had fewer yards on offense because they kept getting the ball with a short field.  I live in West Virginia and hear the same BS rationalizations for why Marshall could never beat WVU.  Why can't Herd fans just admit defeat occasionally?  Bobcat fans have at least learned how to do that over the past 4 decades.  Eventually Marshall will beat Ohio.  The two programs are pretty evenly matched.  When it does happen,  I can't imagine us using words like, "unnacceptable, blasphemy, never, and superior".  That's what makes Landon such a clown to us. 

The biggest resource in Ohio's favor is that OH has 11.5 million people while WV has 1.8 million. Ohio has enough talent in-state alone for a very strong MAC team. A team full of West Virginia players couldn't even win the OVC and that is a fact that Marshall has to live with for eternity.

I agree.  That is why it is unacceptable to lose the way we did.  We can't hold onto the ball and we have four turnovers and we lose by 3 points.  Unacceptable.  If Marshall handles the ball, we win by 3 or 4 TDs.  We didn't though and we lose.  We can't help it if we feel that it is unacceptable for our program to lose to Ohio University the way we did.  It surely isn't acceptable, now is it? 

I went to a poor, small rural High School that almost was merged into neighboring school districts during my Sophomore year.  The school survived with limited resources after an emergency tax levy passed by a few votes.  When, during my senior year, we won our conference in just about every sport we had I was proud to say that we did this IN SPITE of the handicaps.

When Ohio won the preseason NIT when I was in school beating multiple ranked teams including Back-to-Back Big Ten Champion Ohio State and then Top Ten ranked Virginia I was more than proud to say we did this IN SPITE of being resource handicapped.

I don't think that having a lack or a plenty of athletic resources is anything for a school to be proud or ashamed of. Some might contend that a school not spending much on athletics means that it has its priorities in order.  It wouldn't bother me at all to hear someone say we beat them in spite of a handicap if it were true and said with at least some small measure of respect (see most 2012 Penn State writers).  But it isn't at all true in this case.  I could list about twenty things that you could consider pointing to a resource advantage.  Its pretty even here.  If anything I think its in Ohio's favor now after CUSA has fallen to arguably the worst 1A league.

Landon is understandably frustrated at a three game losing streak to a rival.  That's OK.  But trying to make yourself feel better by printing things that are clearly false and repeated talking down to someone else isn't "Mission accomplished by Mr. Landon" its at worst libel and at best really poor journalism and sportsmanship. McKayt you've usually been a pretty considerate, mostly friendly rival, and sensible poster.  I'm not telling you to accept losing but if you have any sense you shouldn't be defending Landon.  If any pro-Ohio writer wrote something like that I assure you I'd be writing him telling him to stop embarrassing the University rather than going on a rival message board defending what he wrote.