1. Skip Holtz has served as an assistant coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Colorado State Rams, and the Florida State Seminoles.
30 Facts About Skip Holtz
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Skip Holtz played college football at Notre Dame, where he played mostly on special teams.
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Skip Holtz joined the coaching ranks immediately upon graduation from college, working initially for Bobby Bowden as an assistant at Florida State.
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Skip Holtz gradually worked his way through the ranks at various NCAA Division I schools before being named head coach at Connecticut in 1994.
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Skip Holtz has an overall record of 152 wins and 121 losses as a head coach, including eight bowl wins and two conference championships.
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Skip Holtz grew up in many towns while his father coached football.
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In 1968, the family moved to Columbus, Ohio after Skip Holtz took a job at Ohio State University.
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In Fayetteville, Skip Holtz attended Fayetteville High School and graduated in 1982.
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Coaches Faust and Phelps encouraged Skip Holtz to enroll at nearby Holy Cross College, located adjacent to the university in Notre Dame, Indiana.
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Skip Holtz began spring practice before the 1986 season as a quarterback, but quickly changed to flanker due to his lack of throwing ability.
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Skip Holtz never caught a pass, but rushed once for one yard.
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Skip Holtz met his future wife, Jennifer, in Coach Bowden's office while in Tallahassee.
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Skip Holtz left after two years to become the wide receivers coach at Colorado State University under coach Earle Bruce.
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Lou Skip Holtz called Coach Bowden to ask permission to speak to Mark Richt.
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Coach Bowden said Holtz could hire Richt as long as he could hire Skip.
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Skip Holtz had the third-best total offense in the NCAA during the 1992 football season.
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Skip Holtz accepted the offer and took his first head coaching job on December 23,1993.
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Skip Holtz agreed to a four-year contract at a salary of $95,000 a year.
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Two days later, Skip Holtz resigned as head coach of the Huskies in order to rejoin his father, who had taken the head coaching job at South Carolina the day before the Huskies' loss.
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On December 4,1998, The University of South Carolina announced that Lou Skip Holtz would serve as its next head football coach.
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Skip Holtz accepted the offer, in part due to a desire to live closer to his parents and so his children could spend more time with their grandparents.
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When Skip Holtz was hired in 1998, Lou had included a clause in the hiring contract that Skip Holtz would succeed him after he retired.
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On November 22,2004, one season after Skip's demotion, Lou Holtz announced he was retiring as head coach of South Carolina.
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Skip Holtz assumed control of a program that won just three games in its past 25 contests.
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Skip Holtz signed 23 athletes in his first recruiting class, including his first commit, Rob Kass.
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In 2009 Skip Holtz led the ECU Pirates to a second CUSA championship.
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On January 14,2010, it was announced that Skip Holtz accepted the head coach position at the University of South Florida, in Tampa, Florida, taking the place of the recently fired Jim Leavitt.
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Later that season, Skip Holtz led his Bulls to the program's first victory over the Miami Hurricanes.
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On December 13,2012, Skip Holtz accepted an offer to become the head coach for the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs.
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On January 20,2022, Skip Holtz was named Head coach and General manager of the Birmingham Stallions of the United States Football League.