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underpants

(187,525 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2024, 04:04 PM Dec 14

🏈 Sources: Marshall opts out of bowl after transfers, coaching change

Marshall officials have notified the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl that the Thundering Herd won't be able to participate, sources told ESPN, after a wave of players recently entered the transfer portal in the wake of a coaching change.

The Thundering Herd, who won the Sun Belt Conference title, were set to face AAC champion Army on Dec. 28 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Marshall coach Charles Huff left for the same post at Southern Miss a day after the Sun Belt title game after being unable to reach an agreement with the school on a new contract. The Herd quickly hired NC State defensive coordinator Tony Gibson as Huff's replacement. Army faces Navy later Saturday.

As of Saturday morning, Marshall has 36 players in the transfer portal, including 29 scholarship players and 17 players on the team's two-deep for the Sun Belt title game. All three Thundering Herd quarterbacks who played this season are in the portal, including starter Braylon Braxton, the Sun Belt Newcomer of the year.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/42969198/marshall-opts-bowl-transfers-coaching-change

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🏈 Sources: Marshall opts out of bowl after transfers, coaching change (Original Post) underpants Dec 14 OP

it's all about marketing and money on the part of all participants nt msongs Dec 14 #1

That's absolutely insane. Xavier Breath Dec 14 #2

Agreed. LisaM Dec 15 #4

College football and basketball are ridiculous. Bluetus Dec 14 #3

msongs

(70,304 posts)

1. it's all about marketing and money on the part of all participants nt

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 04:08 PM

Dec 14

Xavier Breath

(5,198 posts)

2. That's absolutely insane.

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 04:33 PM

Dec 14

I hate what they've done to the game.

LisaM

(28,782 posts)

4. Agreed.

Reply to Xavier Breath (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 15, 2024, 11:50 AM

Dec 15

I was watching a college basketball game the other day and almost every player's name was preceded by "the transfer from...."

Bluetus

(333 posts)

3. College football and basketball are ridiculous.

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 04:42 PM

Dec 14

WTF is that? We are losing our standing internationally as a nation. And much of that is because our higher education institutions no longer prioritize the original mission, which was to educate people .

In almost every state, the highest paid state employee is either a football or basketball coach, not the Governor, not a scientist, not the leader of a research lab.

How did the University of Toronto's curling team do this year? Nobody cares. THat has nothing to do with education. How was Oxford's cricket team? Or the University of Melbourne's soccer club? WTF? Nobody would ever ask such a question.

We Americans have f-ed up many of our institutions, and college sports is exhibit A. Let the professional teams pay for their own farm systems.

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