Greetings from the Marshall press box, where the mood is such that even the popcorn is clad in green and white. Either that, or it’s really old.

The big news is that WVU and Marshall have agreed to extend their football series against one another and the details are shocking … except that there are no details and there is no agreement other than a framework. And even that is a little fuzzy. Read on because it might help your blood pressure to disseminate true and false.

However, multiple sources from both schools told the Daily Mail on Friday afternoon that while a continuation of the series is a done deal — albeit unsigned — athletic directors Oliver Luck of WVU and Mike Hamrick of Marshall have not agreed to any particulars or the shape a series would take after the current seven-year deal is completed.

Don’t forget Texts from Game Day and feel free to comment here on the game as it happens and how it strikes you. I’ll try to check in from time to time seeing as if I don’t have a newspaper to contribute to before Monday.

Luck and Hamrick met here Friday morning to try and work out the future of the series, but could not strike a formal agreement. Manchin, a source said, wantsthe teams to continue to meet every season, but that does not seem likely at this point.

Sources said the teams would not play every season consecutively beyond 2012, and that no game is likely in 2013.

One source said the series could continue with five games from 2014 through 2020. Another source said five games would be played from 2014 through 2022.

Multiple sources said Marshall would play a third game at Mountaineer Field in a five-game series, if the series goes home-and-home before that game.

Don’t forget Texts from Game Day. You’re also invited to contribute your comments on the game as it happens and how it strikes you. I’ll try to check in from time to time since I don’t have a paper to write for before Monday.

6:16 pm: Out for tonight’s game: TE Tyler Urban, MLBs Pat Lazear and Branko Busick. Also, the Kansas City Royals have signed Pat White.

7:38 pm: Officials overturn a pass initially deemed to be incomplete. J.D. Woods gets 19 yards on a reception. He has three catches in his career for three first downs and a touchdown. By the way, WVU, on the road, is working with Conference USA refs.

7:41 pm: Ruminations of some sort of news to be announced at halftime. Meantime, notive WVU having success to the right and Marshall running and flowing a lot of its offense in that direction, as well.

7:44 pm: Eu Smith didn’t get hit at all last game. He’s taken two really good shots thus far and completed passes both times. Neither was a particularly good pass, but he found an open receiver. Just threw about a five yard pass to Austin, while retreating, and Austin made three moves and gained 21 yards.

7:47 pm: Total yardage is even at 105 after the first quarter.

7:52 pm: Cue criticism for running left in 5, 4, 3 … Speaking of 3, “7s not 3s” sounded a lot better last week.

7:55 pm: WVU not as adept handling sudden changes this week. Turnover on downs — and then a false start by Marshall — precedes a 96-yard touchdown pass from Anderson to South Charleston’s Aaron Dobson. Keith Tandy was the cornerback in question and I can’t recall seeing a receiver one-on-one with a corner with no blitz in quite some time.

7:56 pm: … and if you’re Marshall, you’re going back to that play as soon as possible. Tandy does have a history.

7:59 pm: Remarkably, that’s not the longest pass play in Marshall history. There are a pair of 99-yarders i n the record book.

8:01 pm: Marshall matches WVU history, though. Longest pass against the Mountaineers was also a 96-yarder from Don McNabb to Marvin Harrison in 1995.

8:03 pm: Left side of the line is having issues. And Texts from Game Day might be historic. Just a tease.

8:05 pm: Watching replays, Marshall was very generic on the final two downs/sacks. Geno, many of us though, was holding onto the ball a whole lot before that. Marshall went with heavy coverage and let its front get to Smith. Good chess match there.

8:07 pm: Bill Stewart is watching the genie do its thing out of the bottle. Sands gets a 15-yard penalty for post-play activities. Ea Smith follows with another 15-yarder for a hit in a defenseless player. First-and-10 Marshall on the WVU 31. Significant moment in … the series?

8:09 pm: And WVU can’t get a break. Anderson loses the ball on a throw and recovers his fumble.

8:09 pm: Upon further review, Jarrett Brown hated that call on Ea Smith.

8:23 pm: Not a fan of the offensive rationale for Marshall here. Then again, conservative might be enough to win this. Who knew?

8:50 pm: Perfectly appropriate start to the second half. That’s two fumbles by Noel this year and the officials disallowed another last week.

8:52 pm: Significant stop by the defense. Offense has to do something with this possession.

9:06 pm: WVU won two games last year in which it trailed at the half: Marshall and UConn. Both were at home and the Mountaineers took the lead into the fourth quarter. Uncharted territory is off in the horizon.

9:10 pm: Attendance tonight sets a new stadium record: 41,382. It’s the largest crowd to ever watch Marshall play a home game.

9:16 pm: Not to say WVU has panicked, but following Dobson’s TD, WVU called seven straight pass plays. On this drive, WVU ran very effectively to Marshall’s 40 … and then called three pass plays. Eu had a bad throw and Jock dropped a pass. A third down screen was blown up by Marshall and its offense now has the ball at its 6.

9:25: Johnny Jones has now blocked six kicks in his career. He blocked one last week against Ohio State that was returned for a touchdown. You’d assume WVU was aware this could happen.

9:28 pm: Secondary really misses Sands and his range + reach + height.

9:34 pm: As Marshall PA plays songs by this Eminem fellow they just discovered, it should be known this is only the second time Marshall has led WVU entering the fourth quarter. The Herd was up 31-28 in 1997.

9:36 pm: A healthy Robert Sands makes that tackle.

9:39: Right now, this is not East Carolina 2008. It’s even more decisive.

9:43: First-and-10 Marshall at WVU’s 30. If Marshall has a gadget play it trusts, this is the time.

9:51 pm: Might be time to blow up the offensive line … since Marshall has for three-plus quarters now.