herdftblfan1
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RE: Sagarin ranks the top two G5s as #35 Marshall and #37 Boise State.
(10-27-2014 11:39 PM)NothingButKnight Wrote: (10-27-2014 02:33 PM)herdftblfan1 Wrote: [No question about that but you are also acting like none of these kids have played in this same environment or that they haven't played the same Conference schedule most of the AA has the past decade. You act as if Marshall is ten years removed from sharing a conference with you.
In the past three years Marshall has played Maryland, WVU, Virginia Tech, Louisville, Purdue, etc. They beat Louisville at Louisville, barely lost to Purdue in the final minutes and it took triple OT for VT to beat the Herd last season. This was during years when Marshall was still on the upswing, very young and not nearly as talented as they are in 2014. It's silly to argue against that just the same as it would be for me to claim we have a hard schedule this year.
The schedule is weak. I admit that. It's dumb not to. Marshall has been dominating that schedule, though, has excelled when comparing common opponents and demonstrated in 2013 their capacity to compete on a level playing field.
All I am saying is it is a mistake for SOME of you to say "Marshall would get destroyed by X team" or "ECU is so much better because of their schedule" etc. You simply do not know that and all evidence otherwise points to the contrary.
Those old teams mean nothing to this one. How well will this OL hold up to the best DL it will have seen, and vice versa? We have no idea, so it's hard for people to give Marshall credit, fair or not. ECU has had at least some experience with bigger lineman, and for their part, have done a pretty good job in those games.
I don't think anyone is saying Marshall would get destroyed, or that ECU is a better team because of the schedules. But when you're using polls to determine which one of the G5 teams gets the Access bowl, uncertainty hurts your chances.
Actually MANY posters are saying this very thing. It's a daily occurrence on the C-USA forum as well as the Marshall Rivals site. It's almost relentless.
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herdftblfan1
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RE: Sagarin ranks the top two G5s as #35 Marshall and #37 Boise State.
Much discussion will be had starting at about 7:35 p.m. tonight.
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RE: Sagarin ranks the top two G5s as #35 Marshall and #37 Boise State.
(This post was last modified: 10-29-2014 07:22 AM by USFRamenu.)
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