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FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2013 | VOL. 117 NO. 1 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com Football Edition 2013 Playing for the Front 269030 GLENNS SPORTING GOODS FRONT PAGE STRIP PAR 6 x 3.0 C M Y K 50 INCH 2 FOOTBALL EDITION FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2013 | | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Marshall Thundering Herd 2013 Football Schedule The Miami The Middle (OH) Red Tennessee State Blue Hawks Raiders Game 1 – vs. Miami (OH) PHOTO COURTESY OF BRAXTON CRISP Location: Oxford, Ohio Game 7 – at Middle Tennessee State Marshall University Athletic Director Mike Hamrick speaks at the Mascot: Red Hawks Location: Murfreesboro, Tenn. groundbreaking ceremony of the indoor practice facility Friday, 2012 record: 4-8, 3-5 in MAC Mascot: Blue Raiders April 26 in Huntington. Key players: Dayonne Nunley (CB), Nick Harwell (WR) 2012 record: 8-4, 6-2 in Sun Belt The Thundering Herd and the Red Hawks have had bad blood Key Players: Reggie Whatley (KR), Kevin Byard (S) since 1971 when the Red Hawks showed no mercy to the Young The Blue Raiders are coming off of a successful season, in- cluding a big win over ACC member Georgia Tech. MTSU is Hamrick choosing last season, particularly in the non-conference portion with away joining C-USA this season after competing in the Sun Belt since Thundering Herd. The Red Hawks played a very difficult schedule 2000. non-conference in the MAC East division. The Red Hawks will be without last years startinggames at QB Ohio Zach State, Dysert, Boise who State was and drafted Cincinnati, by the and Denver finished Broncos fifth schedule selectively in the 2013 NFL Draft. The Southern By BRAXTON CRISP add Akron as a non-confer- Miss Golden FOR THE PARTHENON ence opponent because the The Gardner- With Marshall beginning series with Virginia Tech ends Webb Runnin’ Eagles the season against a former this season. Game 8 – vs. Southern Miss Mid-American Conference Hamrick feels that adding Bulldogs Location: Hattiesburg, Miss. rival in Miami (Ohio) and Miami (Ohio) is a big time Game 2 – vs. Gardner-Webb Mascot: Golden Eagles playing another former MAC series with a team the Thun- Location: Boiling Springs, N.C. 2012 record: 0-12, 0-8 in C-USA rival two weeks later at Ohio, dering Herd is extremely Mascot: Runnin’ Bulldogs Key Players: Rakeem Nunez-Roches (T), Deron Wilson (CB) Thundering Herd Athletic familiar with, despite not 2012 record: 3-8, 2-4 in Big South Southern Miss had a disastrous season in 2012, plummeting Director Mike Hamrick has playing each other since 2004. from C-USA Champions in 2011 to being winless in 2012. Ellis been making non-confer- “Marshall has had a lot of Gardner-Webb will begin the 2013 season with a new head ence games close to home a great games with them, some coachKey withplayers: Carroll Seth McCray Cranfill returning (TE), Tanner to his Burch alma (LB) mater. The Thun- replaced by Todd Monken. priority. good, some not so good,” dering Herd is 12-1 against FCS opponents since moving to the Johnson was fired after only one season as head coach and was “You would like to get ev- Hamrick said about the series FBS in 1997. ery opponent close,” said with the Redhawks. Hamrick. “Obviously within The game in 2004 was won by The University the conference it is what it is, the Thundering Herd by a score but when you schedule out of 33-25 in Huntington and re- The Ohio of Alabama- of conference the closer the sulted in quite an outburst from Birmingham opponent is from a mileage the Redhawks coaching staff. Bobcats standpoint it gives your fans History between the Herd Blazers an opportunity to travel and and Redhawks goes back to Game 3 – at Ohio support your team.” 1905. Games were played be- Location: Athens, Ohio Game 9 – vs. UAB The 2013 season is not the tween the two when Hamrick Mascot: Bobcats Location: Birmingham, Ala. only example of Hamrick’s was a player at Marshall in the 2012 record: 9-4, 4-4 in MAC Mascot: Blazers effort to schedule regional late 1970s and Miami was the Key players: Beau Blankenship (RB) 2012 record: 3-9, 3-5 in C-USA games for the non-conference “Redskins” as well. All of that The 2013 meeting between these two rivals will be the 57th Key Players: Darrin Reaves (RB), Austin Brown (QB) schedule. The Herd will play played a part in motivating Battle for the Bell. The Bobcats are 19-8 in the past two seasons, The Blazers had a forgettable season last season but does at Virginia Tech in the 2013 Hamrick to rekindle the series. including two straight wins over the Thundering Herd. The Bob- have plenty of young talent, including rising junior RB Dar- season, as well as hosting “I just felt it was very im- other teams from reasonable portant to get Miami back on Tettleton, who lead the Bobcats the past two seasons. Ohio leads season. driving distances in the com- the schedule because they’re thecats all-time will have series to find 31-19-6, a way including to win this 2-1 season against without the Herd QB during Tyler rin Reaves, who was a first team all-conference selection last ing years. a rival, their proximity is very the Doc Holliday era. “Our future football sched- close and I’m very excited ules are very good with games about them coming to Hun- The Tulsa with Louisville and Purdue tington and us going there The Virginia coming up,” Hamrick said. next year,” said Hamrick. Mar- Golden “We’ve got a series down the shall and Miami will also play Tech Hokies road with Navy, we’re going in Huntington in 2017 and in Game 4 – at Virginia Tech Hurricane to start playing Kent State Oxford, Ohio in 2018. Location: Blacksburg, Va. and Akron from the MAC, and The 2015 schedule will Mascot: Hokies Game 10 – at Tulsa we’re talking with East Caro- feature a home game against 2012 record: 7-6, 4-4 in ACC Location: Tulsa, Okla. lina about continuing that the Purdue Boilermakers as Key Players: Logan Thomas (QB), Jack Tyler (LB) Mascot: Golden Hurricane series.” the second half of a home- Last season was a major disappointment by Virginia Tech’s stan- 2012 record: 11-3 In 2014, Louisville will and-home series that began dards, but ended on a high note with a close bowl victory over Key Players: Keyarris Garrett (WR), Demarco Nelson (S) come play the Herd inside in 2012 with the Herd play- Rutgers. Head Coach Frank Beamer is entering his 25th season in Tulsa won the Conference USA championship last season and Joan C. Edwards Stadium in a ing in West Lafayette. Also in Blacksburg. The Herd has come up short 5 times against the Hok- will probably be favored to defend the title. The Golden Hur- matchup that will presumably 2015, the current series with ies since 1997, most recently in a 30-10 contest in Huntington. pit two of the best quarter- the Ohio Bobcats will run backs to ever come out of out when the Herd heads to ricane has won four of its past five bowl games. Miami, Marshall’s Rakeem Athens. The Navy series that Cato and Louisville’s Teddy Hamrick alluded to will be a The UT-San The Florida Bridgewater. The two faced home-and-home series with off in 2011 when both were the Midshipmen in Annapolis, Antonio International just freshmen at their respec- Md. in 2021 and in Hunting- Golden tive schools. ton in 2022. Roadrunners Marshall will also continue Braxton Crisp can be Game 5 – vs. UTSA Panthers series with Miami (Ohio) and reached at crisp23@mar- Location: San Antonio, Texas Game 11: - at Florida Int’l Ohio University in 2014, and shall.edu. Mascot: Roadrunners Location: Miami, Fla. 2012 record: 8-4, 3-3 in WAC Mascot: Golden Panthers Key Players: Triston Wade (DB), Steven Kurfehs (LB) 2012 record: 3-9. 2-6 in Sun Belt UTSA has an up and coming football team that is joining C-USA Key Players: Greg Hickman (DL) this season after spending just one season in the WAC after mov- ing to the FBS as a transitional team. The Roadrunners is coached of C-USA the Herd has on its schedule in 2013. The Herd and by former Miami (FL) head coach Larry Coker. The game against GoldenFlorida Panthers International last met is inthe the fourth 2011 andBeef-o-Brady’s final new memberbowl, in UTSA will be Marshall’s homecoming game. which the Herd was victorious 20-10. 269078 The East The Florida Carolina REFUEL Atlantic Owls Pirates BIGGER MARKETS, INC Game 12: - vs. East Carolina Location: Greenville, N.C. 2 x 4.0 Game 6 – at Florida Atlantic Mascot: Pirates Location: Boca Raton, Fla. 2012 record: 8-5, 7-1 in C-USA Mascot: Owls Key Players: Vintavious Cooper (RB), Derrell Johnson (LB) 2012 record: 3-8, 2-5 in Sun Belt Key Players: Nexon Dorvilus (TE), William Dukes (WR) University in the R+L Carriers Bowl.