HUNTINGTON — If you can’t beat it, avoid it. Sure beats saying rain, rain, go away.
He may not even like old sayings, but Doc Holliday, the head coach of the Marshall football program, decided early on Saturday to avoid the rain that has plagued past Thundering Herd Green-White Games and scrimmages since he took the helm of the program in 2010.
For the first time ever, the “spring game” was indoors and out of the elements, enjoyed by a crowd of nearly 2,500 Herd fans who jammed the West sideline of the Chris Cline Athletic Center track for bleacher seating, or sat on blankets or seat cushions on the all-weather track as Marshall’s defense won the first indoor spring game at Marshall, 165-116.