HUNTINGTON – Chuck Heater has been a college football assistant coach for four decades. He learned long ago not to judge a book by its cover.
So, when the Marshall defensive coordinator approached the 2015 season having lost six starters from Coach Doc Holliday’s nationally ranked Conference USA title team, he wasn’t going to fret about the fact that most saw 2015 as a rebuilding year on defense.
The Herd had lost NFL-bound players like linebacker Neville Hewitt, cornerback Darryl “Swagg” Roberts, dominating tackle James Rouse, ends Ra’Shawde Myers and Arnold Blackmon and linebacker Jermaine Holmes.