I've spent most of my life with a connection to Marshall University. When I lived in Huntington, I want to more basketball games than football games. When I moved to Columbus after graduation, I went to one or two football games a year, and followed them at Alumni Association game watching parties at Rush Creek and through the box scores. When I moved to Maryland, I made a commitment to be at every home football game. I did that so that my daughter would have a strong connection to Huntington and my family and friends. This was during Byron's tenure. Things were great then. I fairly quickly amalgamated my personal identity from someone who loves the Tri-State and Marshall University with being a Herdfan. For the year that I lived in Colorado, I took great pride in flying in for each of the home games (I missed one that year). Moving to Indy, I got back into the region of the country that I consider home. I am back to being able to go to Reds and Bengals games. I see my family and friends more. I am not as dependent upon the success of our football program to define the identity that I wish to have. During WKU's beat down on us last year, I crashed. With my daughter's application process to Marshall University, I have gotten back to focusing on Marshall University as a separate entity from the sports programs. This past weekend, we brought another potential student from Indy to join my daughter at the office of recruitment's Green-White Day. I had the opportunity to show him my home town and how the alumni interact with the University and the Athletics Program. As I continue to work on separating the two, here are the Ten Things I Think I Know After Four Days in the Land of Milk and Honey:
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