Judging from what Marshall football did yesterday, you’d think the Thundering Herd were a year-in, year-out perennial football power, where anything less than a bowl win and a national ranking was unacceptable.
Unfortunately, they’re not.
There have been two periods of prosperity in Marshall’s past. Bob Pruett engineered five seasons with 10 or more wins over a six-year span around the turn of the century, helping Thundering Herd fans move on from the aftermath of the 1970 plan crash that decimated Marshall for two decades.
The other period likely ended on Monday, when Marshall decided to not renew Doc Holliday‘s contract. Continue reading “The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same”