Skip Holtz Will Be USF’s Next Head Coach

Via an official university statement (with poorly justified margins) and everything!

Let the Mike-Leach-To-ECU campaign begin! As for Holtz, going from the purple-festooned Pirate enclave to the land of Gasparilla should make him feel right at home. (And make no mistake, the number of Big East contests covered by ESPN is about to skyrocket -- nothing finer than a little Holtz-on-Holtz action, amirite?)

Details to come on the contract. Holtz is a solid hire, and one that makes immense sense from a number of angles. Financially, he won’t break the bank of a school tied up with a potential settlement from the ongoing Leavitt saga.Coaching-wise he’s not the firebreather Leavitt is, and will provide a welcome change of pace in Tampa. Programatically, Holtz understands programs in transition and how to build them up, something he’s done at previous stints at UConn and ECU in taking programs on an upward trajectory and making sure they stayed that way.

In summary: a solid, nonsense-free hiring for a program immersed in far too much nonsense recently.