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Conference usa coach of the year fired
- Thread starter Boy of the Corn
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That has to be a first.
Could have been worse, he could have just finished a 9 win season as well.
Apparently, Doc Holliday had made some very powerful enemies. Per Yahoo, the decision to fire him wasn't made by the AD. It was made by West Virginia Governor Jim Justice and Board of Governors at Marshall.
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Was he looking around and they fired him as a preliminary for him walking out the door?
Strange days
Strange days
Interesting. It figures that politics would be involved here, because the W/L record doesn't suggest someone who deserves to be fired from Marshall of all places.
IMO, what's even odder is that I read multiple articles published by major websites like Sports Illustrated, and *nobody's* got any more detail than the Thamel tweet. Thamel himself hasn't elaborated on it except to tweet a link to an April 2017 article in the Charleston Gazette-Mail that alleges Gov. Justice was trying to get Holliday fired three years ago in favor of former Marshall Head Coach Bobby Pruett. Apparently, back then Justice also tried to get the school's Board of Governors to fire Marshall President Jerry Gilbert and AD Mike Hamrick.
EDIT: Pruett's 77 and hasn't coached since he was DC at Virginia in 2008. If Justice is trying to get him re-hired at Marshall, the AD was absolutely right to refuse to do it.
Source says Justice trying to oust Marshall’s Holliday, others
Gov. Jim Justice pressured Marshall University leaders in recent months to shake up how the school’s football team is coached, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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I thought Doc Holiday died after he killed Johnny Ringo?
Where is Wyatt Earp when we need him?
From what I gathered reading about Rich Rodriguez's experiences, it's been a long, long-standing problem in the state of West Virginia that important politicians interfere with football coaches at pretty much all of the state universities. I know some of this happens in lots of places, but when you can get coaches as diverse and spread out over time as Bobby Bowden, Rich Rodriguez, Dana Holgorsen, and now Holliday to all experience this kind of treatment, it would seem to be a bit more of a problem in West Virginia than in most places.
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