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Marshall's AD Is Surrounded By College Girls

Barry Petchesky — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EDT

Until he can find permanent housing, Mike Hamrick is living in an all-female dorm wing. He's living every man's dream, except the women are all half his age. So, yeah, he's living every man's dream. [The Parthenon]

Dance, Marshall Fella, Dance

Leitch — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:40:38 EDT

Last night, in Huntington, W.Va., the Marshall football team hosted a Women's Clinic, meant, apparently, to explain to feeble minded babymakers the basic concepts of football so that they will understand when to leave the room, when to leave the house and when to just bring more beer. It's not easy to keep a husband happy!

Not surprisingly, considering the concept of the whole enterprise, it turned into a bunch of drunk women ripping the clothes off of players. Fun crowd, though.

"We are Marshall's biggest fans, literally," Angelo said. "It's girls night out, we are having a great time. The girls make new friends and builds camaraderie for the big games."

We are not sure you mean to say "literally," there, ma'am. Or perhaps you do.

Ladies Have Their Night With The Herd [Herald Dispatch]

How Not To Run A Cheerleading Squad

Leitch — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:45:48 EDT

As Every Day Should Be Saturday put it, this is a story that's best read while listening to the "Benny Hill Show" music.

At Marshall University in West Virginia, a former female cheerleader — that is to say, she used to be a cheerleader; she's still a woman — is suing the university and the former cheerleading coach because of intense sexual harassment. And when you read the allegations, "intense" doesn't quite cover it.

"Male members of the cheerleading squad routinely made offensive actions toward female squad members, including exposing their genitalia, rubbing their scrotum on a female team member's face as she stretched on the floor, groping female members' breasts, shouting 'Throw the bitches up' and grabbing their genitalia area," the complaint says.

The complaint is very graphic, to warn; it's so graphic, in fact, it's rather shocking a daily newspaper printed so much of it. It's not every day you see the words "Beared clam (vagina)" over your morning cereal.

Former Marshall Cheerleader Says Squad Sexually Harassed Her [West Virginia Record]

(UPDATE: The Smoking Gun has the full suit.)

If You Aren't Cheating, You Aren't Trying. WVU is Trying.

mjdeadspin — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:42:30 EDT

From the ever-resourceful Wizard of Odds comes this tip about some collegiate football chicanery. At a Marshall University spring football practice this week, there was a commotion in the stands, as a Marshall official took off running after a spectator who had been sitting there by himself taking notes.

A chase ensued, the guy was unable to get away, and as it turns out, he's a WVU student. He originally claimed to be a student at UAB, another Marshall rival, but when he was searched, they found contact information on him for WVU football coaches. And the 2006 Mercedes-Benz he was driving is registered to a Parkersburg dealership that loans cars to WVU's athletic program.

So, that doesn't look particularly good. West Virginia's AD claims that they did an internal review of the situation, and that the guy was acting on his own. He had a work-study job in the building where the WVU football offices were located, and he's been "reassigned."

As you might imagine... Marshall fans are a bit huffy about the situation. WVU fans are having a bit of fun with it.

This all could've been avoided if WVU had just sent someone to do the job who could actually flee from middle-aged men on foot, if need be. Ultimately, I don't believe it's a big deal. No one's going to learn a whole lot from some formations and plays scribbled down by an undergrad student. Why a preseason Top-5 program needs to spy on friggin' Marshall is a whole other question, but it does seem to make things more fun when people cheat.

Where There's Smoke, There's Fire [The Wizard of Odds]
WVU denies spying on Herd [Herald-Dispatch]