Holt in October 2007
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Sport(s) | Football |
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Current position | |
Title | Co-defensive coordinator / linebackers coach |
Team | Purdue |
Conference | Big Ten |
Biographical details | |
Born | October 15, 1962 |
Playing career | |
1981–1985 | Pacific (CA) |
Position(s) | Linebacker |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1986 | (DC) |
1987 | UNLV (GA) |
1988–1989 | UNLV (DL) |
1990–1993 | Idaho (DL) |
1994 | Idaho (DC/DL) |
1995–1997 | Idaho (DC/LB) |
1998–2000 | Louisville (DL) |
2001–2003 | USC (LB) |
2004–2005 | Idaho |
2006–2008 | USC (DC/DL) |
2009–2011 | Washington (AHC/DC) |
2012 | Arkansas (RC) |
2013 | Western Kentucky (DC) |
2014–2016 | Western Kentucky (AHC/DC) |
2017–present | Purdue (co-DC/LB) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 6–18 |
Nicholas "Nick" Holt V (born October 15, 1962) is a college football coach, currently the co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for the Purdue Boilermakers. Prior to taking the position in 2013, he was the defensive coordinator and assistant head coach of the Washington Huskies for three seasons. Previously, Holt was the defensive coordinator and defensive line coach of the USC Trojans, and the head coach of the Idaho Vandals from 2004–05.
Holt attended high school at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, California, where he played football and baseball and graduated in 1981. He enrolled at the University of the Pacific in , where he played linebacker and lettered for four years for the Tigers, redshirting in 1982 due to injury. In his senior season of 1985, Holt was an All-American honorable mention, Pacific's MVP and a team captain. During the 1983 season, Pacific's offensive coordinator and assistant head coach was alumnus Pete Carroll, whom Holt later worked under at USC. Holt graduated from UOP in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in political economics.