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| Position: | Head coach |
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| Born: | March 12, 1964 Willimantic, Connecticut, U.S. |
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| High school: | Fayetteville (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| College: | Notre Dame |
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| Postseason: | USFL: 4–0 (1.000) |
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Louis Leo "Skip" Holtz Jr. (born March 12, 1964) is an American football coach who is the head coach for the Birmingham Stallions of the United Football League (UFL). Holtz has led the team to two USFL Championships, in 2022 and 2023, and a UFL Championship in 2024. Previously, he was the head coach for the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs, South Florida Bulls, East Carolina Pirates, and the Connecticut Huskies. He has also served as an assistant coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Colorado State Rams, and the Florida State Seminoles.
Skip's father, Lou Holtz, is a former head football coach and worked as a commentator on the television channel ESPN.[1] Due to his father's career as a collegiate football coach, Skip was exposed to football from an early age. He played college football at Notre Dame, where he played mostly on special teams. He joined the coaching ranks immediately upon graduation from college, working initially for Bobby Bowden as an assistant at Florida State. He gradually worked his way through the ranks at various NCAA Division I schools before being named head coach at Connecticut in 1994. He has an overall record of 152 wins and 121 losses as a head coach, including eight bowl wins and two conference championships.
- ^ "New Assignments and Returning Commentators Highlight ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU College Football Coverage". ESPN (Press release). March 12, 2007. Archived from the original on September 11, 2009. Retrieved April 11, 2008.