Skip Holtz headed to Louisiana Tech

[talon]

assistant in the nfl can't remember where

[Spurrier_Superior_One]

Originally Posted by Kickerspl80

I must be missing something. He moved to a top 25 team from a non top 25 team. LaTech was pretty darn good this past year i think maybe the last two years. If he's got some kids coming back on that roster then I think he can make a statement to some of the other bigtime programs

Ellis Johnson nuff said.

[GamecockInHell]

I thought Skip would have done a better job at USF. Leavitte left after a number of years there, so you wonder if maybe there is something going on besides the coaching.

[talon]

sometimes the players don't buy into what the coach is saying and stop trying
if they do your are dead as a coach

[FanofCarolina1]

Some people believe he's taking a step back. I don't think so. Louisiana Tech is an up and coming program. Look what they did against aTm...damn near beat them. I think he'll do well there.

[zambam]

Originally Posted by GamecockInHell

I thought Skip would have done a better job at USF. Leavitte left after a number of years there, so you wonder if maybe there is something going on besides the coaching.

Leavet(sp) was sent home for altercations with kids. Most people close to the program think it was blown out of proportion and were upset with his firing.

[dreammachine]

I don't know what happen to Skip Holtz at South Florida, but I do know that he is a very good football coach. A lot of the time it is the assistants that you have working under you that make you great or make you look very bad. A classic example of this is our own staff at Carolina. Until the HBC got a very good staff under him, he and we did not have a very good program.

I think Skip will do well at La Tech and hopefully he will continue to improve and get back at bigger name school in the future, but I do believe that will take him a while.

[USCgamecocks]

Skip was a terrible terrible coach at USF, he took a program that was at the top of the conference, ranked, and had recently hit as high as #2 in the polls and destroyed it in the matter of a few years. In the 9 years Leavitt had in FBS he had one losing season, Skip had 2 in 3 years. Even this year in the projections for the Big East they were supposed to be at the top of the league and they absolutely sucked. Look at the development of BJ Daniels... Skip is lucky to have any job as a HC at this point.

[Gamecock Rob]

Skip's problem is he has to have assistants who can coach on Saturdays, I have a friend who was a GA for him at ECU and said he was a great Sunday-Friday coach but if he didn't have great play callers at OC and DC he couldn't compensate.

[M.C.]

Originally Posted by Kickerspl80

Yeah I just dont think he would be as noticable at USF with all the Florida school to compete with recruiting. In Louisiana he only has one school to compete with for in state recruits. Seems like a win to me especially as crappy as Sfla is

In state maybe but hell the ones that dont go to LSU will go out of state...Louisiana Tech will get the scraps

[M.C.]

Originally Posted by FanofCarolina1

Some people believe he's taking a step back. I don't think so. Louisiana Tech is an up and coming program. Look what they did against aTm...damn near beat them. I think he'll do well there.

pretty sure it was a fluke season