When Marshall and Illinois State open their football season Saturday at Joan C. Edwards Stadium, both teams will aim to erase the memory of a disappointing 2007 season.
HUNTINGTON - There were a few surprises when Marshall released its first depth chart of the 2008 season Tuesday, but the quarterback order wasn't among them.
Among the true freshmen, Ahmed Shakoor has raised eyebrows at cornerback, enough to land on the second string on Marshall's first depth chart.
HUNTINGTON - In his first teleconference appearance of the season, Marshall coach Mark Snyder declared Monday that "we've wiped the slate clean," and that his team was playing the first of 12 "one-game seasons."
HUNTINGTON - Marshall is bracing for a long season of facing spread offenses that love to throw the ball - but just not yet.
For the first time since rising from Division I-AA, Marshall lost in 2007 to a member of that division, now renamed the Football Championship Subdivision. The Herd is 10-1 in such games since 1997, all in Huntington.
HUNTINGTON - Marshall's goal this fall, as articulated by coach Mark Snyder, is to get back to a bowl game.
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
HUNTINGTON - Mark Snyder enters his fourth season at Marshall with the closest he has had to the maximum 85 scholarships, and the Thundering Herd seems to be the deepest it has been in five or six years.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
HUNTINGTON - Being the son of a high school football coach, Mark Cann certainly had a head start to enjoying a notable athletic career.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
David Ridpath's unprofessional behavior - including a profanity-laced attack on a female assistant athletic director - and mediocre job performance have made it difficult for the former Marshall University compliance director to find work, the school's attorneys argued in documents filed Friday.
Friday, August 22, 2008
HUNTINGTON - You can say Marshall kicker Craig Ratanamorn hasn't kicked in a competitive football game in a long, long time.
Friday, August 22, 2008
CALL IT a glitch.
Friday, August 22, 2008
HUNTINGTON - Marshall began some preparation for its Aug. 30 opener at Illinois State, but coach Mark Snyder is holding off on declaring starters at several positions.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
HUNTINGTON - When times get tough for DeMetrius Thompson, a walk-on defensive end at Marshall, he doesn't have far to look for inspiration.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Former Marshall football player Charles Tynes recanted statements he made in a sworn affidavit which implicated former Thundering Herd coach Bob Pruett in NCAA violations concerning improper employment benefits.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
HUNTINGTON - With one swing of the leg, Kase Whitehead showed his coaches that Marshall just might be all right in the punting department this year.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
HUNTINGTON - Mark Snyder's move toward a gentler, if not always kinder, football camp has claimed one of his offbeat traditions, the special-teams scrimmage.
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