Marshall University Athletics
Herd Fans Urged to Wear Green on Gameday
9/23/2004 12:00:00 AM | Football
Herd Fans Urged to Wear Green on Gameday
9/23/2004
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. ? Marshall University and head football Coach Bob Pruett are urging Thundering Herd fans to wear green to home games, beginning with MU?s Mid-American Conference football battle Wednesday, Sept. 29, with Miami University. Game time at Joan C. Edwards Stadium is 7 p.m.
H. Keith Spears, vice president for communications and marketing at Marshall, said it appears many Herd fans have gotten out of the habit of wearing green on game day.
?Several years ago when Marshall played basketball in the Southern Conference, the people of Asheville, N.C., often commented that the annual tournament was dominated by Marshall green,? Spears said. ?Where did all of this green go? We want, and need, a stadium full of green. Shirts, jackets, sweaters ? whatever the choice of clothing, the color should be green.?
Spears said visits this year to Ohio State University and the University of Georgia, along with trips to Kansas State University and the University of Tennessee in 2003, revealed thousands of fans in large stadiums proudly wearing their school colors.
?Marshall fans were engulfed in a sea of red at Ohio State and Georgia,? Spears said. ?Last year it was orange at Tennessee and purple at Kansas State. Big-name schools with winning records show their true colors by wearing them in public on game day.?
Pruett said he would love to see more than 30,000 Herd fans wearing green when MU plays Miami.
?I check it every game. It?s comforting to see where the green is,? Pruett said. ?If you?re a true Marshall fan, you understand that God has to be a Marshall fan or he wouldn?t have made the grass green and the trees green."
The Marshall-Miami game will be televised nationally on ESPN2.
?Occasionally Marshall has the opportunity to gain positive national recognition,? Spears said. ?In recent years, the most obvious way has been the national telecast of our football games. The game with Miami is another one of those opportunities. But we?re not talking about wearing green just for this game, we want a sea of green for all games.?
