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Snyder's Press Conf. Notes

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Alan

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Mark Snyder Announced as Marshall Head Football Coach
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This morning, Marshall University announced that Mark Snyder has been hired to lead the Thundering Herd football program in 2005. Snyder was previously the Defensive Coordinator at Ohio State.

<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> BuckeyePlanet was not able to attend today’s press conference, but we were able to catch up with WOWK TV (Charleston, WV) Sport’s Anchor Sean McDowell to get his impressions and some quotes from Coach Snyder.

McDowell said: “Coach Snyder kept making references to being home and to his playing days at Marshall. He hesitated, picked his words carefully, and said he is leaving the second best school in the country for the best.” Sean emphasized that Snyder meant that with the utmost respect for Ohio State.

McDowell also quoted Snyder as saying: “One thing I will take from Ohio State is the 106,000 screaming fans. The 12<sup>th</sup> man, we have to do that here at Marshall.”

When Sean asked the new coach what this week has been like, he replied: “I have been so engrossed in practice that I haven’t had time to think about this. The real strain has been on my wife and three girls.”

Coach Snyder will be back at Ohio State practices on Friday and he will be in attendance for the annual Spring Game. However; the remaining defensive coaches will be running the defense for the game.

McDowell also said that Snyder referred to Coach Jim Tressel as: “the greatest man that I know.” Sean also said: “that Mark talks about Tressel like we would our fathers. There obviously is a deep friendship between the two.”

<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> Snyder’s contract will pay him $144,200 per year and with incentives could reach as high as $478,000. He was also paid a $50,000 bonus.
 
He hesitated, picked his words carefully, and said he is leaving the second best school in the country for the best.” Sean emphasized that Snyder meant that with the utmost respect for Ohio State.
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Absolutely nothing wrong with putting your alma mater over everyone else. He may now be a Herder, but he'll still always be a Buckeye, too.
 
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Mark's Goals as HC at the Press Conf coming into CUSA are to:

Win Conference championships
Play in a BCS Bowl
And graduate all our players

I don't know if any picture were taken or not, but if so I'll pass them along.
 
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LloydSev said:
I'm interested in the different in pay between his job now, and what he was making as DC for us.
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That's a good question to raise LLoydSev ... my gut feeling is that Marshall, being a smaller school wouldn't be able to pay a huge salary for their HC. If that's so the maybe for Snyder it really is more about the value and joy he derives from the job, rather than the cash it brings to him.

Plus you've got that whole thing about living like a king in Appalachia while earning less than those big city folks .... :)
 
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LloydSev said:
I'm interested in the different in pay between his job now, and what he was making as DC for us.
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Interesting question. I would put money on the fact that it didn't matter one bit to Mark.

It will be interesting to see if he ever goes anywhere else as a head coach if he does well here. This may be the pinnacle for his career, his highest goal. I know there is a large part of me that it would be the case for the school I went to. Of course, my pinaccle is a little higher (OSU). :)
 
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It's nice to see all of these assistants and coordinators getting head coaching jobs. Granted, the short term effect is negative on tOSU program, but the long term effect is extremely positive. All of the great coaches turned truck loads of assistants into head coaches. This just tells me that JT has great potential to go down as one of the best college coaches ever.
 
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