UTC defensive line coach Marcus West leads defensive linesman Will Mix through a drill during practice on at Scrappy Moore Field in August 2012.Marcus West isn’t going anywhere, at least not until after the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s 2013 football season at the earliest.
His wife, former associate head women’s basketball coach Nikki West, is headed to North Carolina State with Wes Moore, who was hired as the Wolfpack’s head coach Friday.
The Mocs’ defensive line coach, who has been with coach Russ Huesman since 2009, said he’s committed to UTC.
“I’m here for the season and we’re going to win the [Southern Conference], hopefully, and at the end of the year we’ll sit down and evaluate where we are, where we’re going and where we go from there,” Marcus West said after practice Saturday morning.
The Wests got married in June 2011. It likely was inevitable that a job change for one would come along at some point. A former all-conference end at the University of Memphis, Marcus said “we always said we would cross the bridge when we got there.”