Yesterday, Marshall's road game against Conference USA rival Southern Miss, was supposed to have been broadcast on TV. They had some technical difficulties down in Hattiesburg, so they said the heck with it.
Marshall, apparently said the same thing about even playing.
The woeful Herd was about as visible as Manti Te'o's girlfriend in this one. Their performance was bordering on historically bad, and they found themselves down 53-17 at halftime. As hard as it may seem, they showed up even less in the second half and the dream of making it respectable went down the drains along with any hope Huntington had that maybe The Herd could turn it around this season, have something to show for it, and be the Thundering Herd that only exists in the minds of fans from Hal Greer Blvd. to the 5th Street exit,instead of the Blundering Turds.
Former Morehead State Head Coach, Donnie Tyndall,(profiteer of an atypical Morehead-type player in Kenneth Faried), cashed in on his OVC success and the Louisville win to make the move to Brett Favre's school, and as long as they play teams like this one of Tom Herrion's, he will look like one the best coaches since Adolph Rupp. Yesterday, just looked like you had taken a Junior High team and told them to beat up on a group of kids from an Upward League.
Now, not taking anything away from The Eagles of Southern Miss. They are currently battling it out with Memphis for conference supremacy in C-USA, and have now own 8 in a row along with beating it's conference foes by about 23 points per game. They also shoot around 38% from behind the arc, making them the most proficient in league play.
Marshall has not won a game on the road all season long, standing at 0-6 when they have to load up the bus or make a connector flight from Tri-State in Ceredo. We knew Marshall was not too good offensively this year, but some hope was held out due to DeAndre Kane being injured. Kane is back, now, and came in ranked #1 in conference and #5 in the nation at just under 7 assists per game. In this one, he only recorded 2 assists and turned the ball over 11 times.
That can't happen. They may have been better off staying with the point guard-by-committee system they had employed in his absence.
The win was the largest Southern Mississippi has ever recorded in C-USA, as they absolutely slaughtered the buffalo like some pissed off Apaches, 102-46.
For this season, it's safe to say The Herd has been put to pasture.
The saddest aspect of this, is that Marshall played like a bunch of thugs waiting to jump somebody outside of the ICON. Mouthing off to officials, playing dirty just because you are getting your rear end handed to you, and throwing tantrums (as well as the ball onto the floor after calls) and well, you deserve to be handed an embarrassing defeat like this. Looks like the old adage is true, you can pay for school but you can't buy class. Marshall finished the game with 20 fouls given, and 3 technicals being rung up.
It's like that kid who would lose at Nintendo, and say "the computer is cheating".
Let's keep kicking the Herd while they are down, shall we?: Marshall shot 13-39 from the field(33%), 7-21 from behind the arc(again, 33%) and were a disgusting 13-34 from the gimme' line.
Marshall's next game, is the potential slaughtering that awaits them in Memphis on the 26th.
Oh, and Chuck Landon, your pretentious claims of Kentucky not being 28 points better than Marshall are just further proof after things like this happen, that you sir should have your pen and note pad taken away.
(This season, there are no true 'powers'. Not one team is a by and far favorite to take home honors in March. It's a crap-shoot for national supremacy.)
Marshall, apparently said the same thing about even playing.
The woeful Herd was about as visible as Manti Te'o's girlfriend in this one. Their performance was bordering on historically bad, and they found themselves down 53-17 at halftime. As hard as it may seem, they showed up even less in the second half and the dream of making it respectable went down the drains along with any hope Huntington had that maybe The Herd could turn it around this season, have something to show for it, and be the Thundering Herd that only exists in the minds of fans from Hal Greer Blvd. to the 5th Street exit,instead of the Blundering Turds.
Former Morehead State Head Coach, Donnie Tyndall,(profiteer of an atypical Morehead-type player in Kenneth Faried), cashed in on his OVC success and the Louisville win to make the move to Brett Favre's school, and as long as they play teams like this one of Tom Herrion's, he will look like one the best coaches since Adolph Rupp. Yesterday, just looked like you had taken a Junior High team and told them to beat up on a group of kids from an Upward League.
Now, not taking anything away from The Eagles of Southern Miss. They are currently battling it out with Memphis for conference supremacy in C-USA, and have now own 8 in a row along with beating it's conference foes by about 23 points per game. They also shoot around 38% from behind the arc, making them the most proficient in league play.
Marshall has not won a game on the road all season long, standing at 0-6 when they have to load up the bus or make a connector flight from Tri-State in Ceredo. We knew Marshall was not too good offensively this year, but some hope was held out due to DeAndre Kane being injured. Kane is back, now, and came in ranked #1 in conference and #5 in the nation at just under 7 assists per game. In this one, he only recorded 2 assists and turned the ball over 11 times.
That can't happen. They may have been better off staying with the point guard-by-committee system they had employed in his absence.
The win was the largest Southern Mississippi has ever recorded in C-USA, as they absolutely slaughtered the buffalo like some pissed off Apaches, 102-46.
For this season, it's safe to say The Herd has been put to pasture.
The saddest aspect of this, is that Marshall played like a bunch of thugs waiting to jump somebody outside of the ICON. Mouthing off to officials, playing dirty just because you are getting your rear end handed to you, and throwing tantrums (as well as the ball onto the floor after calls) and well, you deserve to be handed an embarrassing defeat like this. Looks like the old adage is true, you can pay for school but you can't buy class. Marshall finished the game with 20 fouls given, and 3 technicals being rung up.
It's like that kid who would lose at Nintendo, and say "the computer is cheating".
Let's keep kicking the Herd while they are down, shall we?: Marshall shot 13-39 from the field(33%), 7-21 from behind the arc(again, 33%) and were a disgusting 13-34 from the gimme' line.
Marshall's next game, is the potential slaughtering that awaits them in Memphis on the 26th.
Oh, and Chuck Landon, your pretentious claims of Kentucky not being 28 points better than Marshall are just further proof after things like this happen, that you sir should have your pen and note pad taken away.
(This season, there are no true 'powers'. Not one team is a by and far favorite to take home honors in March. It's a crap-shoot for national supremacy.)
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