Skip Holtz

[SMUPonyFan]

How about Lou Holtz's son, Skip. He has some great experience from his father, a legend.

Here is a profile:

<I>Skip Holtz begins his second season as USC's assistant head coach and offensive coordinator. He came to Carolina after a successful five-year stint as head coach at the University of Connecticut. In 2000, Skip Holtz will have all the Gamecock quarterbacks who played last year returning. Additionally, USC will add a trip of talented quarterbacks from this year's recruiting class.

While at Connecticut he led the Huskies to their best season in school history in 1998 and is recognized as one of the top young coaching talents in the country.

Skip Holtz has been involved in developing high-powered and prolific offenses throughout his coaching career. In his last season at Connecticut, he led the Huskies to a school-record 10 victories and into the second round of the NCAA playoffs. His team ranked 11th nationally in scoring offense, averaging nearly 36 points per game.

During his five years as head coach at UConn, Skip Holtz guided that program to national top 25 rankings the past four seasons and unprecedented success in the school's 100-year history of playing football.

Skip Holtz's move to USC is the second time in his career that he has worked under his father as an offensive coordinator. Skip combined forces with his father, Lou, at Notre Dame for four years. During the 1992 and 1993 seasons, Skip Holtz served as on offensive coordinator for the Fighting Irish.

During those years, he was in charge of one of the country's most potent offensive attacks in which the Irish complied a 21-2-1 record. The 1992 Notre Dame offense ranked third nationally in total offense, averaging better than 470 yards per game.

The 1993 Irish offense, despite the loss of All-American running backs Jerome Bettis and Reggie Brooks, ended the season ranked No. 9 in scoring offense (36.6 points per game). During Skip Holtz's two seasons as offensive coordinator at Notre Dame, the Irish offense averaged nearly 37 points per game.

Skip Holtz has also served on the coaching staffs at Florida State and Colorado State. In all, Skip Holtz has been involved in six New Year's Day bowl games during his coaching career. Prior to coming to USC, the overall record of teams he had been associated with as an assistant coach was 67-15-2.

Born March 12, 1964, in Storrs, Connecticut, Skip Holtz spent the first two years of his life at UConn while his father served as the top football assistant on the Huskie staff from 1964-65. Skip was a scholastic quarterback at Fayetteville (Arkansas) High School, while his father was the head coach at the University of Arkansas.

He attended Holy Cross Junior College in South Bend, IN for two years before transferring to Notre Dame in 1984. He earned his bachelor's degree in Business Management in 1986 and was a football letterwinner for the Irish in 1986, appearing in all 11 games as a special teams member and backup flanker.

Skip and his wife, Jennifer, are the parents of three children: Louis Leo (Trey) Holtz III (6); Chad Fitzgerald Holtz (4); and Hailey Elizabeth Holtz (1).</I>

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[PonyTales]

Score one for the value of a South Carolina education (stolen and slightly changed from a line by Woody on Cheers.)

Check the first paragraph of that bio. "... add a TRIP of talented quarterbacks from this year's recruiting class" ????

Nice work, Gamecocks.

Don't know much about Skip-to-my-Lou. Hope he doesn't whine as much as his old man. But if his name is Holtz, he can probably recruit.

[SMUPonyFan]

WOW! I posted that before the DMN article came out and that was just a random idea. A shot in the dark. Maybe I am a prophet.

Well, I might as well just say Bob Stoops, Bobby Bowden, and Steve Spurrior are candidates also, maybe in a couple of hours an article will come out saying we have contacted them.

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[Mac]

Does anyone know anything more about Holtz meeting with Copeland?