Charles Huff, Marshall Thundering Herd Head Football Coach

Coach appreciate the time.

Thank you for coming on this act outshone.

Congratulations.

Now I proceed to a family man, probably one heck of a weekend guys played really hard to get a great job getting ready that we got able to get out of their woodwind mantle. Great weekend. Great start to the season ready to move on the bold great guy. Now you coaches work. I know you said every get ready to move on to Bowling Green. I really want you to appreciate this moment from Saturday expand a little bit further. How do you put it into words what that when means for your program yet. I think anytime you can you know the players a reward for their hard work and live action with positive culture and help stop the continued scraping your plan in our guys been working really hard January and all people can happen to go out and going to get a reward for everything we've been telling them I got a do a BNC in order to have success to be able to go out and doing a national stage is great and I think it obviously continues to bring light to a great university. Great program your parcel.

Whatever you could plead a great record this in the community you feel that the community spouse will writer everybody, asked her to supply or something about all around positive whenever you have a team going to Notre Dame you wonder if the stage is good to be too big. When did you know that your team is good to be ready for that moment because I didn't sense any fear watching for my couch from your football team know I think you know I think talk with both things a little bit intimidation factor of you know, having no small school shifted, gone away because of the transfer portal.

We got 24 transfers on our team.

So me 24 mark as have already played in some type of big arena. Big stadiums are cool" became so we've got three guys from Florida State on the T got Dr. Penn State, a guy from Kentucky and Gothenburg do you start adding those kind of pieces will gather 40 played in the rain soaked with MS, but no more. But I think what happened, relieve some of the anxiety of God that were on the team before it may have not played in those arenas and the others, wanting to deal with the guy next to you got confident you so I think you know that that the time is changing with this transfer portal and I think now you're getting more walk-throughs with multiple different levels of experience multiple different levels of you multiple different levels of big game moments and always think I could really help. So it's one thing to have players from other programs that big-time experience, but to be able to get them to jell together so quickly is another tough task, how did you guys developed at synergy so quickly this early on in the season the applicant started recruiting you know we don't recruit anybody in our program transfer portal. Somebody in this building doesn't have a previous relationship with whether that's they recruit them in high school, whether that's you go anywhere at the University that they were at or transferring from that got me some type of connection because you like it hard to bring in new people into a new organization to get everybody to buy it so we started in recruiting and make it truly fit our program for games, then we get here, our culture, engulf, we challenge our older guys every body to play and operate standard the process in which we operate from our coaching on feel off the field or classroom or academic demands. You know all forces guys to do right, and then we show them how to create value for that unilateral doing right great value outline into the process to create value for them to do that you combine those three things a previous relationship. You know the locker room, engulfing him and then getting them to understand that you know is going to create value, thank you to complete by August we easier to reinforce what you have success that makes a little bit easier it will sell software without this program, Marshall in his second season at a huge victory up against Notre Dame this past weekend coach when you're walking off the field and you know you've won the game and I know in the final three minutes.

It looks like you guys are good but the clock is winding down when it finally gets a zero celebrated team you're walking off the field. Just what's going through your mind. Apparently that was for the players and all the hard work you know there's a lot of people that are going to pull the rope to get this to get us to this point from ghetto administration boosters to portico governors. Professors and supporters in France and players and coaches and ended sometimes as the leader you trust your planning cluster process, but you know it works but for everybody buying into it. You need a little bit of you know reward to show up.

And those are the moments that you can really say Matt I know we we were able to get everybody to buy and everybody correction today is, like their reward as the coach is the leader you're happy because you know a lot of the players a lot of people in the organization brought in blindly innovate they really didn't know what was going to work and when it works it kinda it kind of is a good no humbling moment to see your players, your staff, your administration all get to enjoy you know such a historical moment for this universe to take a while for it to sink in, like, is itself reality right now that you guys be Notre Dame you know is coaching cliché as it sounds. You know it's kind of you know, you prepare your play already execute yellow successful game going to the next. But when you really we got back here to Huntington Sigel airport know the stadium plan is so monumental to the history of this place. Think back to the plane crash. You don't you think back to the Xavier game with her son during her young country victory after plane crash.

And do you think about us beating Marshall McBee Notre Dame Marshall. Those are some monumental moments. It is been a lot of people have been through the ups and downs this place to see them smile and stick their checks out a little bit higher.

What was was really good was the best message that you got after the victory. Whether was tax some important: you, I got a message from a couple of the guys a young thundering herd and may you know they told me know coach we default to bring this university go back you know when when it was down and today you know we got our reward watching you guys play today you think about the history of college football. In general, when you think back to how you know history has transcended this place and have someone who was a part of that history, commend you for creating another historical moment for them. Unbelievable to hear coach Charles house here with us from Marshall. I want to give some spotlight to some your players Stephen Joe Marino football is in his bloodline with the way that his blood brothers played for a long time in the NFL through that pit because I was really something. Yeah, you noted that that's something we see all the time with you Maury, I got a call, like you like a honey badger to all workers and under thrown ball or late ball and practice for me, all you can take your pack became Butler Kozak and RDB coaches really been working on the God of the fundamental three-step with the lima departure to take back to the ball and how do you know looking swat so that you don't lose the tackle, but you can you make a play on the ball and then just to see him go through those fundamentals a technique to perfection and make a probably game closing player game changing play for sure was really good and I've seen it happen in practice. Probably way too many times for myself, like at the office to get to see somebody else got to have that same feeling I have on the product, tobacco born, we know these once at Florida State and they said the broadcast last year he was driving over in 163 yards and a touchdown. Tell me little bit more about your running back. Yeah, you know, I was very calm. You have success on the ground with multiple people go into Loctite and white receive correct decisions. But K-1 is done a phenomenal job if you got the Z probably been one of the most appreciative young man that we have in our program just because of where he comes from you been through a lot you know with the success got injured party that you went to college financially wasn't in position to success was driving to work in a lumberyard going to practice going home doing his work transferring grade back to Florida State to get his degree. You know, battled another injury to junior college, no fighting to come to get recognized again to be picked up by another cause acute opportunity and luckily we had a situation out the transfer portal or players agent and I remembered recruiting him when I was eight and we had a really good relationship.

He just reached out to coach others. While opportunity and then at the time leading to yet.

She got yes please, back seniors decided to forgo your covert year. I called him like the process that IMAP scholarship. He said to be there tomorrow and and he has command and done everything we've asked him to do, and this players on your team that you can see people talk about what's there why you can see him living out his why Charles up here with us that football coach at Marshall you met your time at Penn State. I know you're with James Franklin. Also at Vanderbilt. How did you hook up with coach Franklin and and what he means your coaching career. Craig was been a huge mentor my career you know and I that I was working University, Maryland what he was coordinating their an opportunity came open and because of my time working Very often see a spot you know I was old enough to be able to take it in my career, followed him, but he's actually the one who gave me my first opportunity at our proposition job theology GAT's click to spot Vanderbilt. I left with the Buffalo Bills that Western Michigan job at Penn State. He called me and probably you know I was honestly gave me the first opportunity to coach on the main stage at a national stage at Penn State and on that got forever indebted to them because something he followed me a long time ago gave him the confidence of his staff at Penn State, we were able to recruit some really good players and one to be 10 checks up to 2016, but that would've been possible if you didn't you give me the opportunity to come to get my career start to link up with coach Nick Sabin and what your takeaways from opposite legendary coach yeah you know that Mississippi stated we done some really good things on the ground and they recruiting that conference. You know what you've done some things real people start to look and you know and I got a call and I talked and was able to join the staff and probably Dr. level coaching.

He's probably had the most impactful, you know, part of my head coaching career in philosophy. What we do, the consistency and discipline and routine, the biggest thing that I picked up the same analysis we could talk for 45 days on the things that I've learned. But consistency in your approach and disciplining your routine and that's why you say it's cliché but you know where we focused on how we beat Notre Dame not repeat, and how to be freedom we prepared really well during the week we played really hard and we executed and and that's what we gotta do moving forward. This prepared really well: grade we gotta play really hard on Saturday and then we got execute. I know that sounds very pleased to hear whatever it may be my time can save it at school. It was planned, preparing to play Georgia work preparing to play the national championship was yelled. The same routine. The same focus the same attention to detail and the results will come.

Clearly, you got a great experience when you took the job at Marshall, you always wonder if it's the right because there could be a really good coaching prospect, but maybe just not the right fit. Why was Marshall the right fit for you. Yeah, I think you know the history and tradition here at Marshall same enthusiasm and energy and passion behind the plate. The plan recognition and I felt like it was a stable foundation so the recruiting standpoint, the brand is recognizable like going to any home.

They may not know where Marshall is what they probably trigger Randy Mollo left with Jared Pennington, you know, so the brain is recognizable. Then again, I think the foundation was set here. You know they paid a warning losing program they want just got championship. They were always win games. There were respectable you know, and then the fan engagement. You know you want to be able to get people excited about your program and I think the fancier were so entrenched with this football team in the university because of the history that it makes it really easy to recruit and really easy to attract the right.

You and I think because they come here and the thing in golf moment welcome you know some the community feel the brand gives them a chance to chase your dreams the highest level and then you know when you recruiting coaches you to recruit really good coaches and they understand that for me it was a really good opportunity. I had a bunch of other opportunities that didn't work out what the right fit. But for me, my focus my vision.

My process for what they were looking for, and had my blue platform to do it also. Not a bad week for the conference right know me honestly relapse Dayton Georgia Southern playing phenomenal actually helps helps us focus in on this game you know because sometimes you you beat that clarifies school when you think about what you yeah McDonagh gave us a wake-up call.

You knows I well know we get so towards the you you know a couple weeks ago beaver to get back. I think what I'll do is understand that the process in which we operate in every single week is more important than the opponent and hopefully we can kinda replicate the right process each week to have success on Saturdays but love the game this past weekend. Love your story as well.

Really do appreciate the time. Congratulations. Good luck the rest like a Charles off.

Thank you Matt. I proceeded to have me all manually tell you listen that's right you soon. My