(06-03-2016 10:42 AM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(06-03-2016 10:05 AM)FlyHawk98 Wrote:  

(06-03-2016 06:58 AM)Niner National Wrote:  

(06-02-2016 07:42 PM)FlyHawk98 Wrote:  

(06-02-2016 07:29 PM)Norm DaNiner Wrote:  Thanks. Look forward to visiting Huntington in October with a group of Niners. I have always wanted to visit your university and have a lot of respect for your history.

Here is how I see it, and not that my opinion matters to any of you....

I have made it known that I didn't like the addition of Charlotte. I think in time you guys could be great, blah blah, been there, not what this is about.

I believe this is your first trip to Marshall for a game? I always pay attention to the amount of visiting fans. I was really disappointed with the amount ODU brought if I remember correctly. Changed my perception of them a bit.

How many fans you honestly think you guys can bring? Any decent amount would earn my respect.

Hard to say. If it was game 1, probably a fair amount. If we are having a decent season probably 500-1000.

We had over 1500 at the georgia state game last year, but that was game 1. If we played that game in November thst number probably would have only been a few hundred.

Who knows though. Atlanta is a good draw for tourists, making the trip more enticing. Huntington not so much. A football game, aquarium trip, and a tour of coke (all of which are around Olympic park) makes for an entertaining family weekend.

If we are competitive and fun to watch this season, I'll go with 500-1000. If it's a repeat of last year, less than 100.

If you brought anything in the hundreds then I would be impressed. 500, and I'm not sure what I'd think. That would be more than impressive to me.

Then you were impressed with the Western fans that drove 4.5 hours on Black Friday when that region had a snow storm the day before? I would guess 350-500 showed up.

As for being made to feel welcome (another post by you) I would say that is correct. Other than one group as we were walking out saying something off the wall. Nice friendly people. Also I paid no attention to the couple people in that group that were buttholes. After a game like that feeling are raw. But the other people with the two buttholes took over with a teaching moment that being rude is never excepted. We shook hands and I thanked them and they thanked us for coming.

BTW that was one helluva drive, thought my wife and I has seen our last morning. We left NY (the Garden) at 8pm Thanksgiving night right as the horn sounded for Western's basketball game. Drove to the foot of the MT (I believe it was La Vale Maryland) because we didn't want to go over it at night with the snow a couple days before. Got a room at 2am slept 3 hours and left for the game at around 5.30am. Got up to around 2500 elevation and the snow started



30 seconds later we were at 2700 and we slowed down to 43mph because it was snowing about 1/2 inch in those 30 seconds and increasing. At that point we just hoped to make it off the mountain alive because stopping really wasn't a option. As hard as it was snowing we might have got stuck up there. Lucky for us after about 30 minutes we got down to around 1900 ft and just flurries

LaVale is no joke.. My dads side is originally from Cumberland...if you see a semi in your rear view coming down the mountain and closing in...you'd better GTFO of the way because their brakes are probably shot....Sideling hill is an awesome view also...