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Doc Holliday

2010-2020Marshall

One defining program at Marshall.

Doc Holliday coached 11 seasons, won 61.2%, and posted an average SRS of -3.7. Best season: 2014 Marshall. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
85-54
Career win rate
61.2%
Average SRS
-3.7
Peak SRS
14.6

Career Dossier

One glance at the full arc.

The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.

Seasons coached
11
Career span
11 years
Best finish
#23
Consistency
19.2

Primary school anchor

Marshall

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 72.5.

Career Arc

Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.

Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.

Doc Holliday
EliteStrongAverageLean
2010Actual season year • SRS range -20.0 to 14.62020

Active comparison point

Doc Holliday2014

Selected

2014 Marshall

Best season

13-1 • SRS 14.6 • SP Overall 16.8

Win %

92.9%

YoY SRS

+10.6

SP Off / Def

38.4 / 23.1

Finish

#23

Comparison context

Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.

Ranked opponent record

Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.

Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.

Poll source
Ranking timing

Top 25

1-8

Games
9
Win rate
11.1%

Top 10

0-1

Games
1
Win rate
0.0%

Top 5

0-1

Games
1
Win rate
0.0%
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Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Marshall

2010-202011 seasons

Avg SRS -3.7 • Win % 61.2%

Longest tenure
Marshall • 11 seasons
Best tenure
Marshall • -3.7 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Marshall • 61.2%

Style and Strength Profile

Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.

These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.

Overall Strength

Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.

Doc Holliday sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Doc Holliday sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Doc Holliday

Above average

Raw avg SP Overall
-0.3
Percentile
55th pct

Above average

Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.

Impact by school

See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.

Marshall

2010-202085-54

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS -3.7Win % 61.2%

Avg wins

Higher is better

7.7 during vs 4.6 baseline

+3.1

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-3.7 during vs -9.5 baseline

+5.8

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-0.3 during vs -7.3 baseline

+7.0

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

9.1% during vs 0.0% baseline

+9.1%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Marshall 2014

13-1SRS 14.6

Biggest Improvement

Marshall 2017

8-517.3 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Marshall 2014

13-1SP Off 38.4

Best Defensive Season

Marshall 2020

7-3SP Def 19.0

Setbacks

Worst Season

Marshall 2016

3-9SRS -20.0

Biggest Drop

Marshall 2016

3-9-19.8 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

Marshall20201073070.0%3.99.528.619.0+8.6+8.5%
Marshall20191385061.5%-4.7-1.923.826.6-3.1-7.7%
Marshall20181394069.2%-1.61.022.020.5+1.1+7.7%
Marshall20171385061.5%-2.7-4.519.423.9+17.3+36.5%
Marshall20161239025.0%-20.0-12.724.635.8-19.8-51.9%
Marshall201513103076.9%-0.23.525.420.3-14.8-15.9%
Marshall201414131092.9%#2314.616.838.423.1+10.6+21.4%
Marshall201314104071.4%4.08.333.425.5+15.2+29.8%
Marshall20121257041.7%-11.2-1.431.933.9-2.4-12.2%
Marshall20111376053.8%-8.8-8.020.528.5+5.3+12.2%
Marshall20101257041.7%-14.1-14.115.727.8

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