That is a pretty low number but there is a reason people do not like coming to your place and it is just not OHIO. The poster on your board states the case.

This is a problem we have that no one ever addresses.  When WVU plays Pitt, thousands of Pitt fans show up. When UVA pays North Carolina, thousands of fans travel.  Outside of Virginia Tech, WVU and Kansas State, we have virtually never had visiting fans show in meaningful numbers.

WHen my son played basketball for OHIO I had to literally hold one of my friends back from taking out several idiots sitting behind our bencn. I guarantee you he would have sent 3 of them to the hospital and ended up in jail. I had an unwilling officer intervene after listening to the thngs they were saying even he was embarrassed.

You guys are not very good hosts. Maybe the visiting contingents would come were the experience not so ugly. I like the way y'all overstate the facts. Really, you (collectively) think you filled more than half of Peden the last time we played?

We took a couple thousand to Penn State last week. We have travelled well to other schools, like Ohio St, Miami, Kent and Akron. Most Marshall fans that I have encountered have been fine, but there are some that act like they learned how to be a host from WVU fans. I had two grown men behave like complete a**holes sitting near us 2 years ago in the Joan. I was not thrilled about bringing my kids to that game. I'm coming back with the hopes those two are sitting somewhere else.

Pretty sure Ohio athletics already sent the allotment back (way too soon) which accounts for 113...  I know a ton of students going, more than ever before.  More than went to Penn State.  And it is all going through the Marshall ticket office.  

This was a roadie I was hoping to make at the beginning of the season, but I'm going to have to be relegated to Internets watching. Wish I could make it.

That said, Bobcat fans could travel better.  Our presence at Penn State wasn't all that impressive and our presence at Ohio State a couple years ago was kinda pathetic.  Things are getting better, though. I think people are starting to realize what makes a program.

I've always been impressed with the support Marshall fans give to their football teams.  They travel very well.  We'd drive up in the early days of the Motor City Bowl to see Marshall take on Mississippi or Louisville and see Marshall car flags and fans everywhere.   We enjoyed joining Marshall fans in supporting the MAC against those teams.  I remember some Mississippi fan held up a sign saying "Randy Moss who? " and it disappeared quickly after Randy's 80 yard TD reception.  The team and it's fans act like a big time program.

The winning tradition for Marshall Football certainly helps make it worthwhile for fans to travel with the team.  However, I also think there's also less competition for the "sports dollar" in West Virginia.  There's no major league sports team and only two Division 1A football teams.   For a sports fan in West Virginia, Marshall is one of the two top options to see sports at a higher level.

For Ohio University, few Ohio Alumni stay in Athens after graduation.  I think the town's population when college is shutdown is under 5,000.  The largest contingent go back to Cincinnati, Columbus or Cleveland.  There you have a combination of six major league sports teams (MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA) and (unfortunately) OSU football/basketball.  There are also an overload of Division 1 colleges, including 6 from the MAC.  Combine the number of outlets for other high level sports within a small drive of their home and the fact that winning Ohio Football didn't exist for nearly 40 years and you'll find the average Ohio alum hasn't had a whole lot of reason to travel to see Ohio play. 

Ohio fans will travel though when there's reason to see a marquee opponent and expectations for the team to compete.  Ohio had the largest and most vocal fan base in Nashville (by far) for the NCAA basketball tournament this year.  We were the only team out of the eight teams in that region to sell out our allotment of tickets.  In the Sweet Sixteen game in St. Louis, only Kansas had more fans than Ohio.

The football culture is changing. They had 2,000 travel to Penn State last week.  They set a record for home game attendance last night.  Only a couple years ago, few of my friends paid any attention to Ohio football.  Last night, I saw quite a few tracking Ohio's game on FB and watching the game on ESPN3. 

For Marshall, I think it's a combination of "you can't get there from here" and not viewed as a marquee opponent.  It's 3 hours each way from Cincinnati and Columbus.  It's five hours from Cleveland.  Marshall's not the top 25 program they used to be or from a BCS conference.  It's just not appealing enough to make the effort.  And, as others have mentioned, there are a few Marshall fans who are a little overzealous.  Those fans are kind of like overzealous high school parents who never had an opportunity to leave the town they grew up in, so then their whole world becomes living vicariously through their children playing high school sports.  They become so classless that they'll do things like the Marshall fan at the 2009 Little Ceasars Pizza Bowl who kept making "whistle" noises that sounded very close to a referee whistle during Ohio offensive plays.

I've been to West Virginia enough in my life, there is nothing good about Herdistan.

Too bad it does not carry over to the basketball arena, pretty horrible experience....out of 137 games I attended over the course of 4 years your fans were in the top 5 worst........ Willing to concede that I have never had the desire to head down to a football game there. Period. Irregardless of what bleacher report write Callos  says (and there is some controversy as to how many of the stadii he has actually attended if you read the comments) .....it will be interesting to hear what the folks who went to Penn State say in comparison after next week.

As stated, I would rather go back to Honduras in the middle of a coup than go to Herdistan.

Using BR as a source just confirms how wrong you are.

Boom. Roasted.

Keep making excuses not to drive less than 2 hours away to see your team play.

If you wanna talk like a big time program, you need to act like one... buck up and go support your teams in away games and quit whining about how the other team was mean to you.

You shouldn't have any problems in Huntington, that's all I'm gonna say.

Everyone I've ever heard from people in CUSA traveling to Marshall  has had nothing but great things to say about it.

I suppose it's your choice though.