2024 - Marshall Thundering Herd - 12-2 Sun Belt Champions, Scooters Coffee Bowl Champions
Notes:
- Was a fun season for sure. We battled, and won alot of close games.
- Our defense was...awful. We played well at times, then fell apart at times. That's fun about the game is the ebb and flow.
- Ohio was a big win to start, we had full control throughout.
- VA Tech was a closer game than showed, but had to sim it due to a freeze. We still lost in the actual play.
- Ohio State wiped the floor with me. We had a few big plays in the pass game, but omg they destroyed us in the air.
- Handled App and Western pretty easily, they just stayed just in fighting distance.
- OMG was the Georgia Southern game fun, intense, and stressful. We dominated for the most part, but their defense was stepping up big. We scored 20 in the 4th and they scored 17. We missed 3 field goals, and gave them a pick six + kick off return for a touchdown. Game was tied late after we scored, and they fumbled the kick off. Only for us to throw a pick in the endzone, but they would throw a pick on the next play. We capitalized and held on.
- Coastal torched us in the air. We luckily held on and pulled it through.
- JMU game was actually very tight. We score 17 late in the game to pull away. A field goal, then a quick score on offense, then a pick six to seal it.
- Championship game was a dogfight. Much tighter defensive game than we saw all season.
- Our offense was fun all season. Cole Pennington and Ethan Payne held the bulk of the load.
- Our defense measured out pretty bad. Even though I thought we played well at times.
- We racked up some stats on offense.
- Spread the wealth for sure in the passing game. Montgomery, Harris were fun to play with. Conley was always a consistent 3rd down target.
- Payne dominated, and had to because the #2 back was out for the year early on. With our passing attack, definitely opened up things in the run game.
- Defense measured decently, but our pass defense and pass rush lacked all year.
- It was the year of the random champions for sure.
- Playoff held up well couple of upsets early on.
- Penn State got a great draw for their run to the title game.
- Bama holds on and wins with the first year without Saban.
Normally I would post our recruiting class, but I decided to take the Pitt job. I usually put a rule on I have to stay two years at a place minimum but Pitt was a school I marked as an exception.
