Gators Assistant to Coach WVU
Holliday is a Mountaineer at heart.
More news from the coaching carousel, it appears that Florida Gators associate head coach John ‘Doc’ Holliday will be headed to West Virginia to take over the head coaching position that Rich Rodriguez left to go to Michigan. I think it’s a good move for everyone involved.
Holliday has spent a couple of seasons now under Urban Meyer at Florida, and having won the National Championship last year, he has plenty of big game experience under his belt. They offensive system that the Gators have been running under Urban Meyer, the spread option, is the same exact system that Rich Rodriguez ran while at West Virginia, so the players that have been use to running the spread option can continue under the same system but of course under a new coach.
Another big reason is that Holliday is a West Virginia alum. Played his football at WVU as a linebacker in the 70’s, was an assistant in with the Moutaineers from 1979 to 1999. He’s about as close to a sure thing for WVU as they come. As for the job itself, WVU football is as strong as it has ever been thanks to Rich Rodriguez. Holliday has an excellent base to build off with some terrific talent like Noel Devine coming up.
For Gator fans? It won’t be such a huge loss. Recruiting wise, Holliday was a standout, so there might some fallout there, but I expect Urban Meyer to pick up where Holliday left off and should be able to keep most of the interested recruits, this is Florida after all.
December 19th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
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