Topic: RANT SPORTS: Marshall’s Win Over NIU Shows Why Chuck Heater is the Best DC

[biggreenarms]

Marshall’s Win Over NIU Shows Why Chuck Heater is the Best DC in Mid-Major Football

metime soon, expect Chuck Heater‘s phone to ring and on the other end will be a newly hired coach from a Power 5 school offering him the keys to his new defense.

After a couple of years at Marshall, Heater has proven to be the best defensive coordinator in mid-major college football, otherwise known as the Group of 5. Give him a couple of weeks to gameplan for an offense and chances are the plan will be a flawless one. That’s the biggest takeaway from Marshall’s 52-23 win over Northern Illinois in the Boca Raton Bowl on Tuesday night. His Thundering Herd defense was ranked in the top 20 all season before giving up 67 points in their last regular-season game to Western Kentucky, but that result has been the exception, rather than the norm, in Heater’s short time at Marshall and his history in general.

Heater is a national championship DC, having won the title at Florida in 2009 under current Ohio State coach Urban Meyer. When then-Florida offensive coordinator Steve Addazio took over as head coach at Temple, he took Heater with him and the latter led the 2011 Owls that finished third in the nation in scoring defense, behind only Alabama and LSU. At Temple that year, he guided the Owls to consecutive shutouts of FBS foes — the only time that happened in the Owls’ long history.

Now Heater is with another former Florida coach, Marshall head coach Doc Holliday, and the two turned out to be a point away from orchestrating an unbeaten season. Much of the credit goes to Heater, whose defense was ranked No. 7 nationally in holding opponents on third-down conversions (a .302 percentage, 31-of-202).

http://www.rantsports.com/ncaa-football/2014/12/23/marshalls-win-over-niu-shows-why-chuck-heater-is-the-best-dc-in-mid-major-football/

[Greg H]

Thanks a lot, jerk.

[morpheus]

It's not like it's a secret.  Heater is very well known and respected in coaching circles.  That's why Doc has been trying to get a 3year extension for him and Legg approved by Hamrick with a raise for both.  Wouldn't surprise me if that was one of the stipulations Doc received in his new contract package.

[biggreenarms]

It's not like it's a secret.  Heater is very well known and respected in coaching circles.  That's why Doc has been trying to get a 3year extension for him and Legg approved by Hamrick with a raise for both.  Wouldn't surprise me if that was one of the stipulations Doc received in his new contract package.

Man, I hope so morph. That would be HUGE!

[CincyThunder]

Except we gave up 67 freakin points to a sun belt team.............