Skip Holtz
Holtz in 2007
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Louisiana Tech |
| Conference | C-USA |
| Record | 31–22 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 12, 1964 Willimantic, Connecticut |
| Playing career | |
| 1986 | Notre Dame |
| Position(s) | Wide receiver |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1987–1988 | Florida State (GA) |
| 1989 | Colorado State (WR) |
| 1990–1991 | Notre Dame (WR) |
| 1992–1993 | Notre Dame (OC) |
| 1994–1998 | Connecticut |
| 1999–2003 | South Carolina (AHC/OC) |
| 2004 | South Carolina (AHC/QB) |
| 2005–2009 | East Carolina |
| 2010–2012 | South Florida |
| 2013–present | Louisiana Tech |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 119–93 |
| Bowls | 5–3 |
| Tournaments | 1–1 (NCAA DI-AA playoffs) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2 C-USA (2008, 2009) 2 C-USA East Division (2008, 2009) 2 C-USA West Division (2014, 2016) 1 Atlantic 10 New England Division (1998) |
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| Awards | |
| C-USA Coach of the Year (2016) | |
Louis Leo "Skip" Holtz, Jr. (born March 12, 1964) is an American football coach who is the current head coach at Louisiana Tech University. He was head coach at the University of South Florida from 2010 to 2012 before being released. Prior to 2010, Holtz served as the head coach of the East Carolina University football team. Additionally, Holtz was the head coach of the Connecticut Huskies football team between 1994 and 1998 and an assistant head coach for the University of South Carolina Gamecocks between 1998 and 2004.
Skip's father, Lou Holtz, is an acclaimed former head football coach and worked as a commentator on the television channel ESPN. Due to his father's career as a collegiate football coach, Skip was exposed to football from an early age. At the time of Skip's birth, Lou was a football assistant for the Connecticut Huskies. Skip attended Fayetteville High School in Arkansas and played on the school's football team as the team's quarterback while his father was the head coach at the University of Arkansas. After graduating from Fayetteville High School, Skip attended Holy Cross College for two years. He then transferred to Notre Dame, where he earned a bachelor's degree in business management. While at Notre Dame, he lettered in football as a special teams member and backup wide receiver.
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