Heck of a game you guys.. You could tell you guys wanted it and our team never got on the bus to leave for the game.. also it was great atmosphere and your fans were well behaved.. finally bobcat36 it was nice meeting you and thanks for putting up with our gang..good luck with the rest of season and win the MAC.

Still love my team even if I'm disappointed in their play..Go Herd!!!

Thanks, herdfan07.   Good luck next week against VaTech!  I'll be rooting for a Herd upset. Stranger turnarounds from one week to the next have happened.   You ran into what some think may be the best Ohio team in 40 years.  They were really keyed on this game because everyone was telling them how long it had been since we'd won, and some of them remembered the bowl game loss.  It was a perfect storm.  Marshall will win a lot of games this year.  Don't despair.

Appreciate that you came back. Glad one of you has balls.

I stayed off the board after the pre-game conversations fell apart.  Wanted to come back and say congrats.  Hope you guys win them all.  A few comments:

I had a good time (other than the game) in Athens.  You have so much open space for tailgating.  Nice.  The setting is just a great time.  Your team played harder and just all around whipped us.  I was very impressed with the QB and RB.  It is obvious Marshall is not very good, but that said, we do have a good defensive line (I still believe that) and you just have a great offensive line.  You just whipped us all night.  Great great performance by you all.  

I sat behind a 19 year season ticket holder and had good conversations all night.  Also, after all of your frustrations and the beat down you put on us, not one single Ohio fan taunted me when leaving.  Very classy bunch.  

The only thing I could possibly classify as a complaint (more of something that just puzzles me) is why so many of your fans were gone after halftime.  The side opposite the press box thinned way down.  After all the years of frustration (especially against us), you have a great football team and were just destroying us on a great night.  Why leave?  Soak it up.  These are the good times.  I am sure I am preaching to the choir here. 

Well, your excellent coach ate our staff's lunch last night.  One good thing came out of this for Marshall.  What I saw last night gave birth to a real, live rivalry.  Just watch.  This rivalry will blow up now.  Next year in Huntington.  The year after in Athens.  This thing will start rocking.  That will be nice.  

Great game.  I knew we could lose, but the manhandling shocked me.  You never let up, were well coached, played hard, and just flat had better players.  Good luck with Rutgers.  I may stop in from time to time if you don't mind. 

That side was the student side, which was pretty full again for the second straight game. I was impressed with the turnout of students again. Many did leave at halftime, which in many past seasons has been because Ohio was losing badly by then. It was probably the opposite last night. And unfortunately, Ohio State was playing, and many of them probably went home to go watch them unfortunately. I know I wasn't about to leave. I hope the rivalry does continue to grow, and we don't mind fans stopping by. Thanks for the compliments.

Yeah, that too, but I'm in denial mode over that.

That was our student section.  It's been getting better but they always leave at the half.  A lot probably wanted to see the OSU game since it was obvious that it was a blowout in Peden but there has always been a problem with keeping all the students in the stadium...

I sat in the upper corner of that section, right above the student entrance gate.  During the mass exodus after the band played, I made it perfectly clear that it was not acceptable to leave the game.  "Dear OU students, why are you leaving?!  This is a trophy game!"

I hope that got through to someone, but I doubt it.

The last game that I can remember when virtually all of the students stayed for the entire game -- including the OT period was the Pitt game in '05 season.  That was a magical night. 

Pitt and Toledo '05, Wyoming '07, and CMU '08 are the only games I can remember where most students stayed into the 3rd quarter. Even the East-clinching Akron game in '06 saw kids leave.

I'd like to think that the students were satisfied with our dominating performance and wanted to make sure they weren't late to parties. If they left to watch the end of the Buckeyes game, then I'd like to throw a special thank you to the U.

Yes, you're right about the UT game.  It was also nationally televised, if I recall correctly.  Perhaps that's a key. 

Also, my memory of the Akron East title clinching game is different.  It was a good -- not great -- student turnout [in finals week?].  But, of those students who came nearly all stayed until the end.  Most of them were wearing white t-shirts -- for a "white out" appearance.  Looked good!

So, let me amend my previous statement  based on later memory-refreshing posts:

The last three games I can remember where there was not some level of a mass exodus of students after halftime were:

1. Pitt '05 (when nearly everyone stayed into the OT)
2. UT '05
3. Akron '06

I'm defining "mass exodus" as being at least 25 percent or more of the student crowd.

In terms of Wyoming '07 and CMU '08, I do remember decent crowds late in the game, but I can't remember what percent of the students left after halftime.