Skip Holtz
| Louis Leo "Skip" Holtz, Jr. | ||
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| Title | Head Coach | |
| College | East Carolina University | |
| Sport | College Football | |
| Team record | 7-5 in 2006 | |
| Born | March 12 1964 | |
| Place of birth | Willimantic, Connecticut | |
| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 43-33 | |
| Coaching stats | ||
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| Playing career | ||
| 1986 | Notre Dame | |
| Position | Wide receiver | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1994-1998 2004-Present |
University of Connecticut East Carolina University |
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Louis Leo (Skip) Holtz, Jr. (born on March 12, 1964 in Willimantic, Connecticut) is a head coach of the East Carolina University college football team.[1]
Holtz's father, Lou Holtz, was one of the football assistants for the University of Connecticut Huskies when Skip was born. Skip went to Fayetteville (Ark.) High School where he was the quarterback, while his father was the head coach at the University of Arkansas. After graduating from Fayetteville High School, Skip went to Holy Cross Junior College for two years. He than transferred to Notre Dame where he earned a bachelor's degree in business management in 1986. While at Notre Dame he lettered in football in 1986 where he was a special teams member and backup wide receiver.
Coaching experience
Coach Holtz's first coaching job after college came in 1987 where he became the graduate assistant coach at Florida State University. He then took a job at Colorado State University in 1989 where he was the wide receivers coach. In 1990, Skip joined his father, then the head coach at Notre Dame. Holtz first job at his alma mater was Wide Receivers Coach. In 1992 he advanced his coaching experience by becoming Notre Dame offensive coordinator. During the two years as offensive coordinator he and his father coached UND to the Cotton Bowl twice, beating Texas A&M both times. While a Fighting Irishman he help to amass a 40-8-1 (.827) record.
In 1994 Skip Holtz finally became a head coach. Coming full circle since birth, he became the head coach at the University of Connecticut. As the commander of the Huskies organization he accumulated a winning percentage of .596 (34-23), and advanced to the 1998 NCAA I-AA Football Playoffs for the first time in school history. After the 1998 season, he moved to South Carolina to become an assistant head coach for his father once again. On November 18, 2004, Lou Holtz announced he was retiring from the head coaching position at South Carolina. Wanting to become a head coach again, Skip announced on December 3, 2004 that he will become East Carolina University 19th head football coach.
Coach Holtz was chosen to help lead the East team in the 2006 Hula Bowl at the War Memorial Stadium in the town of Kahului, Hawaii.
Bowl experience
- 2006 PapaJohns.com Bowl (South Florida 24, East Carolina 7)
- 2002 Outback Bowl (South Carolina 31, Ohio State 28) No. 13 final national rank
- 2001 Outback Bowl (South Carolina 31, Ohio State 7) No. 19 final national rank
- 1998 NCAA Division I-AA Playoffs (def. Hampton 42-34, lost to Georgia Southern) No. 7 final national rank (I-AA polls)
- 1994 Cotton Bowl (Notre Dame 24, Texas A&M 21) No. 2 final national rank
- 1993 Cotton Bowl (Notre Dame 28, Texas A&M 3) No. 4 final national rank
- 1992 Sugar Bowl (Notre Dame 39, Florida 28) No. 13 final national rank
- 1991 Orange Bowl (Colorado 10, Notre Dame 9) No. 6 final national rank
- 1989 Sugar Bowl (Florida State 13, Auburn 7) No. 3 final national rank
- 1988 Fiesta Bowl (Florida State 31, Nebraska 28) No. 2 final national rank
Coaching Record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl | Rank# | |||
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| Connecticut (Yankee Conference, Atlantic 10 Conference) (1994 — 1998) | |||||||||
| 1994 | Connecticut | 4-7 | 4-4 | ||||||
| 1995 | Connecticut | 8-3 | 5-3 | ||||||
| 1996 | Connecticut | 5-6 | 3-5 | ||||||
| 1997 | Connecticut | 7-4 | 4-4 | ||||||
| 1998 | Connecticut | 10-3 | 6-2 | 1st (New England Division) | |||||
| Connecticut: | 38-23 | 22-18 | |||||||
| East Carolina (Conference USA) (2004 — Present) | |||||||||
| 2005 | East Carolina | 5-6 | 4-4 | 4th (CUSA East) | |||||
| 2006 | East Carolina | 7-6 | 5-3 | 2nd (CUSA East) | L 24-7 Papajohns.com Bowl | ||||
| 2007 | East Carolina | 4-3 | 3-1 | 1st (CUSA East) | |||||
| East Carolina: | 16-15 | 12-8 | |||||||
| Total: | 52-38 | ||||||||
| National Championship Conference Title | |||||||||
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Family life
Skip met Jennifer Fitzgerald, while he was working at Florida State, and later married. They have three children: Louis Leo "Trey" Holtz III (10), Chad Fitzgerald Holtz (8); and Hailey Elizabeth Holtz (6). His parents are Lou Holtz and Beth Barcus Holtz. Skip has three siblings, Luanne Altenbaumer, Kevin, and Elizabeth Messaglia.
| Preceded by Tom Jackson |
Connecticut Huskies
Football Head Coach 1994–1998 |
Succeeded by Randy Edsall |
| Preceded by John Thompson |
East Carolina Pirates Head
Coach 2004– |
Succeeded by Current |
| East Carolina University | |
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References
- ^ Parsons, Keith (2004-12-2). ECU hires Skip Holtz to lead football team. USA Today. The Associated Press. Retrieved on 2007-09-05.
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