Marshall head coach Doc Holliday holds up a helmet with the No. 75 decal that the players began wearing during their game Nov. 14 at Tulsa in honor of the 75 victims of the 1970 plane crash. Holliday presented the helmet to tournament director Jim Justice.
BECKLEY, W.VA. — Marshall head coach Doc Holliday holds up a helmet with the No. 75 decal that the players began wearing during their game Nov. 14 at Tulsa in honor of the 75 victims of the 1970 plane crash. Holliday presented the helmet to tournament director Jim Justice.
The ingredients were there for the rumors to get started.
Marshall coach Doc Holliday — a former assistant coach at the University of Florida who now coaches one of the nation’s two remaining undefeated teams — has popped up as a possible candidate to replace the fired Will Muschamp in Gainesville.
Florida announced Muschamp’s firing Sunday after Saturday’s 23-20 loss to South Carolina and former Gators coach Steve Spurrier.
Holliday was asked about the reports during his weekly press conference Tuesday.
“Right now my only concern is being the head football coach at Marshall,” Holliday said. “I have never been happier coaching football than I am right now. I am concerned with one thing and one thing only, and that is getting this football team prepared to go play. Period. I’ve not even thought of anything else, and I am not going to.”
Holliday, 53, was Urban Meyer’s associate head coach and safeties coach from 2005-07 and was part of a national championship.
After a 30-year career as an assistant, Holliday took his first head coaching job in 2010 at Marshall…
