HUNTINGTON
In my four-plus years writing in this forum about Marshall Athletics, I’ve witnessed it repeatedly. When there is need, the Thundering Herd becomes the Helping-Hand Herd.
This time, the effort was big – as large as one of those College Football Playoff access bowl berths would be for Coach Doc Holliday’s team … and much more real-life important. This was the two-day drive to help those who lost so much in last week’s floods that ravaged so many and so much in the Mountain State.
So, Marshall Athletics parked the football team’s equipment tractor trailer in the Edwards Stadium West Lot on Monday and asked for donated goods that would be taken to northern Kanawha County, where Clendenin and Elkview had been engulfed by the Elk River just a few days ago.