Take away the plane crash and Randy Moss, and you’ll find that Marshall actually has a pretty nice history of team success. It’s won 13 conference championships and a couple of national titles at the Football Championship Subdivision level. Now, you can add an upset win over Notre Dame in South Bend to that history. The folks in Huntington will be celebrating this until the wee hours of the morning.
Go to Twitter, and you’ll find more than a few tweets ripping on the Irish, talking about how overrated they are and wishing they would just go away altogether for the common good. If you sift through all of those though, you’ll find people who care about the Herd all the time and not only when they have a win of this magnitude. Those are the people you should be happy for, not those who would wish the Irish out of existence if they could.
Here are a few of them on Twitter: