At some point, someone charged with covering Herd sports needs to ask in a presser, "Coach Holliday, with the season over, what competitive advantage does continuing to mask player injuries provide you?"
Just once, I'd like to see Doc Holliday answer a hard question. I sympathize with the sportswriters' predicament - if they try to actually do their jobs and report on what's happening, they get locked out of practice. That said, coverage of Marshall football is so sterile and toothless its pointless - most articles could be written by anyone with a copy of a box score or access to ESPN.com. No insight into what's happening, no scoops, nothing interesting to note, just a lot of "undisclosed" things happening in a state-funded football program that wouldn't have helmets if the taxpayers and students didn't have to buy them for them.
This season was the culmination of six years of Holliday's approach - the wheels came off, the program has collapsed, and we could be looking at a 2-3 year rebuild - the sort of thing that would get most coaches fired, or at least publicly criticized. But who knows what we're looking at? Who knows how many players are leaving? What if our current coaching staff has steered our program into an iceberg, and we're going to be looking up at Charlotte and Old Dominion for the next ten years? How would we even know?
Just once, I'd like to see Doc Holliday answer a hard question. I sympathize with the sportswriters' predicament - if they try to actually do their jobs and report on what's happening, they get locked out of practice. That said, coverage of Marshall football is so sterile and toothless its pointless - most articles could be written by anyone with a copy of a box score or access to ESPN.com. No insight into what's happening, no scoops, nothing interesting to note, just a lot of "undisclosed" things happening in a state-funded football program that wouldn't have helmets if the taxpayers and students didn't have to buy them for them.
This season was the culmination of six years of Holliday's approach - the wheels came off, the program has collapsed, and we could be looking at a 2-3 year rebuild - the sort of thing that would get most coaches fired, or at least publicly criticized. But who knows what we're looking at? Who knows how many players are leaving? What if our current coaching staff has steered our program into an iceberg, and we're going to be looking up at Charlotte and Old Dominion for the next ten years? How would we even know?