Doug Smock: Pearson's trek to Marshall includes the indoor game

Pepe Pearson, now Marshall’s running backs coach, scored the winning touchdown for the Rhein Fire in the 2000 NFL Europe World Bowl.HUNTINGTON — Football coaches are a different breed. Unless you’re a Doc Holliday and can drop anchor in one place for two decades, your career is going to have a lot of lines and a lot of strange, seemingly unrelated stops.

For example, offensive coordinator Bill Legg has been to West Virginia, West Virginia Tech, Eastern Illinois, Virginia Military, back to WVU, Marshall, Purdue, Florida International and back to the Thundering Herd.

And that’s one of the boring resumes. Defensive coordinator Chuck Heater has coached in seven different conferences, plus Notre…