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Doug Smock: Time for Marshall to get busy as expansion talks resurface

Marshall athletic director Mike Hamrick, left, and football coach Doc Holliday, right, have helped lead Marshall to success on the football field as the school has built or upgraded many athleitc facilities around the Huntington campus.

I GUESS it’s inevitable in this age of college athletics.

We settle in for a few years of relative tranquility, when we can deal with routine matters such as whether an athlete’s verbal commitment is “hard” or “soft,” or what mischief Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh is plotting.

But here we are in what should be a quiet month of May, sliding back into the abyss of conference realignment.