Tim Marcum was an American football coach, best known for his long and successful career in the Arena Football League.
12 Facts About Tim Marcum
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Tim Marcum was the head coach of the AFL's Denver Dynamite in 1987, the Detroit Drive from 1988 to 1992 and the Tampa Bay Storm from 1995 to 2010.
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Tim Marcum head coached in eleven ArenaBowl championship games, winning seven.
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Tim Marcum was one of two men to win seven ArenaBowls ; and the only man to win seven ArenaBowls as a head coach.
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Tim Marcum was inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame in 1998.
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Tim Marcum was one of the most successful coaches in the history of the sport of indoor football, and is considered the greatest coach in the Arena Football League's 32-year history.
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Tim Marcum attended McMurry University in Abilene, Texas, where he quarterbacked the Indians.
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On February 17,2011, Tim Marcum resigned as head coach and general manager of the Tampa Bay Storm after 15 seasons with the team, less than a month before the season was set to begin.
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Tim Marcum's resignation came after it was revealed that in a deposition given in a lawsuit between himself and former team owner Robert Nucci, Marcum had admitted to receiving and forwarding via his work e-mail account material that was pornographic and racially insensitive.
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Tim Marcum stated that he would not be able to go forward as head coach as the controversy would cause too much of a distraction.
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Tim Marcum went on to serve as an assistant coach with the New Orleans Voodoo in 2012 and the Storm's fiercest rivals, the Orlando Predators, in 2013.
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On December 5,2013, Tim Marcum died at a hospice in Citrus County, Florida.