Doc Holliday
Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 6-2
2011Beef 'O' Brady's BowlW 20-10
2013Military BowlW 31-20
2014Boca Raton BowlW 52-23
2015St. Petersburg BowlW 16-10
2017New Mexico BowlW 31-28
2018Gasparilla BowlW 38-20
2019Gasparilla BowlL 25-48
2020Camellia BowlL 10-17
Report card
Above the median on both sides of the ball — 55th percentile offense, 66th percentile defense.
Marshall, every completed season graded against the whole field, then averaged.
Offense
Defense
Each season is his team’s percentile among every team with that stat (the share it beat), averaged over his completed seasons here; a mid-season takeover year and the season in progress aren’t graded. Letters: A+ 90th percentile and up, A 80, B+ 70, B 60, B− 50, C+ 45, C 40, C− 30, D 15, F below.
Fans
No fan talk about him on our list yet. His record is on Career.
Stats
Big games
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
0-3 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against George O'Leary.
ATS is his record against the spread: did his team beat the closing betting line, winning by more than it or losing by less? Lines start in 2013; a dash means fewer than 6 of those games had one. One-score games carry no spread record: a big favorite that wins a close game has almost always failed to cover, so that number would say nothing about the coach.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Passed more than the situation called for under Legg.
8,197 run and pass snaps at Marshall, 2010–2020, his own games, one row per offensive coordinator. Each cell is how much more often he passed than the rest of FBS did in the same situation (field zone, down, distance, score, quarter, same season), in percentage points.
Pass rate, stint by stint
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next, against the FBS-wide average of 41% pass. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 449 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2004–2025.
Building the roster
Five numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His 3 ranked Marshall classes of his own have averaged #80 nationally — best #71, worst #96.
His class — he had the full signing cycle
Rank is each signing class’s national recruiting rank (#1 is best). Only a class he had a full signing cycle to build counts as his.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2020 roster arrived on his watch — 111 of 111 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2010-2020) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% portal'.
“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.
Size up front
Size up front
Offensive linemen on his Marshall rosters have averaged within a few pounds of the FBS average (2010–2020).
Average listed weight of every offensive lineman on each season’s roster, holdovers included, against every FBS roster that season (2010 on; a program needs 3+ seasons under him to appear). Weights are the ones programs publish, and programs list differently. This describes size only — not scheme, and not quality.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 99 of 269 signees (37%) across his 2010–2020 tenure, drawn from 24 states in all. Next: GA (38).
52% of his signees come from FL and its 2 border states (GA 38, AL 3).
Off this map: 18 signees to the west (CA 11, KS 4, others).
- median hometown distance
- 300 mi
- within 100 mi
- 14%
- within 500 mi
- 67%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 4%
The map counts signed recruits across his tenure; the distance figures cover his current roster, transfers and walk-ons included. Two different groups, kept separate on purpose.
The NFL pipeline
The NFL pipeline
players drafted into the NFL off his teams here. He brought in 5 of them himself; 1 arrived under Mark Snyder. 2 more can’t be traced to who brought them in (no roster record).
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | R4.33 | Josh Ball | Offensive Tackle |  Dallas Cowboys | |
| 2020 | R5.14 | Justin Rohrwasser | Place Kicker |  New England Patriots | |
| 2020 | R7.29 | Chris Jackson | Safety |  Tennessee Titans | |
| 2015 | R7.30 | Darryl Roberts | Cornerback | New England Patriots | |
| 2014 | R6.23 | Garrett Scott | Offensive Tackle |  Seattle Seahawks | |
| 2013 | R2.27 | Aaron Dobson | Wide Receiver | New England Patriots | recruited under Mark Snyder |
| 2012 | R2.27 | Vinny Curry | Defensive End |  Philadelphia Eagles | Estimated |
| 2011 | R5.28 | Lee Smith | Tight End | New England Patriots | Estimated |
A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.
News
No outlet on our list has written about him by name yet. His record is on Career.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
3rd-best Marshall tenure of 11 by the numbers.
Followed Mark Snyder (2005–2009) · succeeded by Charles Huff (2021–2024).
| Season | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||||||||
| Record | 5-7 | 7-6 | 5-7 | 10-4 | 13-1 | 10-3 | 3-9 | 8-5 | 9-4 | 8-5 | 7-3 | |
| Postseason | — | W bowl | — | W bowl | W bowl | W bowl | — | W bowl | W bowl | L bowl | L bowl | |
| Coordinators | ||||||||||||
| OC | — | — | — | — | Bill Legg | Bill Legg | Bill Legg | Bill Legg | Tim Cramsey | Tim Cramsey | Tim Cramsey | |
| DC | — | — | — | — | Chuck Heater | Chuck Heater | Chuck Heater | Chuck Heater | Adam Fuller | Brad Lambert / J. C. Price | Brad Lambert / J. C. Price | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||||||||
| Offense | 7 | 16 | 78 | 93 | 96 | 46 | 11 | 38 | 43 | 23 | 38 | |
| Defense | 80 | 65 | 30 | 61 | 86 | 91 | 21 | 80 | 80 | 63 | 89 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 50.7 | 41.2 | 53.9 | 43.5 | 43.9 | 44.0 | 52.4 | 45.4 | 45.5 | 38.0 | 38.8 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 58.1 | 45.6 | 51.3 | 35.7 | 42.2 | 43.9 | 49.1 | 56.0 | 42.4 | 27.3 | 34.3 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 25.0 | 25.0 | 47.6 | 50.0 | 40.5 | 20.9 | 19.4 | 34.9 | 21.2 | 24.4 | 48.3 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and outperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
Coach of the Year: Conference USA Coach of the Year (2020)
1 player-season honored (All-America / national award): Cain Madden (2020)
All-time wins
Wins at programs this site tracks, 1936–present — one consistent count for every coach, not each program’s own historically reported total.
3rd-most wins by a Conference USA coach
Was he good?
A mixed record — ahead of expectations by some measures here, behind by others. The honest read is that it depends which lens you use.
+10.3 pts at Marshall · #209 of 1290 · top quarterModel fit as of 2026-09-04.