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The one and only, he was constantly dragging down our accomplishments and comparing them to the team he actually supported of USC and for some reason Rutgers. Everything we did was garbage and being held back by CJL. Now we are actually hot garbage and for some reason (simply to defend his horribly indefensible position) he now pretends like things are peachy keen in the land that college football forgot. Did we get in embarrassed in the National spotlight absolutely, but we were in the national spotlight. Now we don’t have that problem but I don’t think it’s for quite the reasons we would like.

Except his premise was the opposite and that we were on the cusp of taking off (apparently the fastest rise in college football history wasn’t quite up to snuff) and that CJL was the albatross dragging us down. It seems like CJL, now that we have comps, actually performed better than the greatness his record indicated.

Steve shockingly enough remains and still believes he was right, despite how many coaches we continue to churn and how high that plateau now looks from the abyss.

They were excited about a new era enough that they convinced themselves that a Holtz new error was improvement but there is nothing in his history of nepotism followed by less success than we were already demonstrating that pointed towards improvement. He accomplished everything he was supposed to accomplish here, unfortunately winning wasn’t a part of the equation.

Coaching career[edit] Early positions[edit] Skip coached under Bobby Bowden for two years. Due to Skip's lack of success on the field and his desire to remain associated with football, he began to investigate the possibility of becoming a coach. After Skip told Lou he wanted to start coaching, Lou put together a list of potential coaches who would give him the best training. The list included Tom Osborne, Joe Paterno, and Terry Donahue, but upon hearing of Skip's interest, Florida State head coach Bobby Bowden said, "if you can be here in two days, I've got a job for you at Florida State."[7] Upon arriving at Florida State in 1987, he became the graduate assistant coach.[1] He met his future wife, Jennifer, in Coach Bowden's office while in Tallahassee.[8] He left after two years to become the wide receivers coach at Colorado State University under coach Earle Bruce.[3] After one season, he went back to Notre Dame to coach under his father.[3] Notre Dame[edit] Holtz's first job at his alma mater was to serve as wide receivers coach, and he filled the position for two years. In 1992, the team began a search for a new offensive coordinator. Lou's first choice, Joe Moore, declined. Lou then asked Skip for recommendations to fill the position. Skip initially said he wanted the position but said of Lou, "he couldn't do it at that time with me [Skip] being his son."[6] Skip then mentioned Mark Richt, who was then the offensive coordinator at Florida State. Lou Holtz called Coach Bowden to ask permission to speak to Mark Richt. Coach Bowden said Holtz could hire Richt as long as he could hire Skip. Coach Holtz said, "Well, if I'm just going to switch coaches, I might as well hire Skip."[6] Skip became Notre Dame's offensive coordinator in 1992. Between 1992 and 1994, Skip and his father recorded 40 wins, eight losses, and one tie, an 82.7% winning percentage. Together, they coached Notre Dame to the Cotton Bowl Classic twice, beating Texas A&M both times. Skip had the third-best total offense in the NCAA during the 1992 football season.[6] Connecticut[edit] Following his success at Notre Dame, Skip Holtz was asked to become the head coach of the Connecticut Huskies. He accepted the offer and took his first head coaching job on December 23, 1993. He replaced Tom Jackson, who had gone 14–19 over the past three years and had decided to resign on November 17, 1993.[9][10] He agreed to a four-year contract at a salary of $95,000 a year. Even though Skip came from a "major football institution" (Notre Dame), University of Connecticut President Dr. Harry J. Hartley said that the hire "should not be seen as a signal that Connecticut intends to upgrade its program."[1] Despite Hartley's remarks, Holtz planned to help elevate the team from I-AA to I-A. Holtz commented on Hartley's remarks by saying "I'd love to have the opportunity to coach a Division I team here...."[11] In 1998, UConn, after 100 years of football and five years with Skip Holtz as its head coach, played in its first Division I-AA playoff game. The Huskies scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns to beat Hampton University, 42–34.[12] In the next round of the playoffs, the Huskies lost to the eventual runner-up, Georgia Southern, on December 5. Two days later, Skip resigned as head coach of the Huskies in order to rejoin his father, who had taken the head coaching job at South Carolina the day before the Huskies' loss. As the leader of the Huskies football team, he accumulated a winning percentage of .596 (34–23) over five seasons. South Carolina[edit] Skip Holtz's father, Lou On December 4, 1998, The University of South Carolina announced that Lou Holtz would serve as its next head football coach. Lou asked Skip if he would move down to Columbia to become his offensive coordinator—the same position Skip held during his final two years at Notre Dame. Skip accepted the offer, in part due to a desire to live closer to his parents and so his children could spend more time with their grandparents.[7] In 1996, Skip's mother, Beth, was diagnosed with throat cancer. Two years later, the cancer spread to her liver, lung, adrenal glands, and ovary. Meanwhile, Skip and Lou continued to coach football at South Carolina. As Lou began to struggle as head coach, the question of his eventual successor arose. When Skip was hired in 1998, Lou had included a clause in the hiring contract that Skip would succeed him after he retired. South Carolina Athletic Director Mike McGee rebutted by saying, "There are no formal or informal guarantees at him," and "It's always helpful to have potential succession in a staff."[13] The 2000 and 2001 seasons brought South Carolina back to national prominence with consecutive Outback Bowl wins over Ohio State and season ending rankings in the Top 25. However, after going 5–7 the following two seasons and suffering a season-ending blowout in 2003 by intrastate rival Clemson, Skip was demoted from the offensive coordinator and assistant head coaching positions to quarterbacks coach. Four assistant coaches—including the team's defensive coordinator—were fired in the same shakeup that saw Skip demoted.[14] On November 22, 2004, one season after Skip's demotion, Lou Holtz announced he was retiring as head coach of South Carolina.[15] The next day, South Carolina announced Steve Spurrier as the next head football coach.[16] Coach Spurrier announced that he was keeping only three members of Lou Holtz's staff. Letters were sent to all the other staffers—including Skip Holtz—informing them that they likely would not be retained.[17] East Carolina[edit] Holtz at ECU in 2007. With his firing imminent, Holtz resigned. Because he was formerly a head coach, Skip had several offers from Division I-A and Division I-AA teams. After several interviews, he elected to take the head coaching position at East Carolina University. East Carolina announced Skip Holtz as their 19th head football coach on December 3, 2004. Holtz assumed control of a program that won just three games in its past 25 contests.[18] Skip signed 23 athletes in his first recruiting class, including his first commit, Rob Kass. Also included in the recruiting class was future NFL player Aundrae Allison.[19] Skip's first victory at ECU came in the first game of the 2005 season as the Pirates defeated the Duke Blue Devils 24–21 at Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium. The victory was ECU's first non-conference Division I win since 2000, when the Pirates won the Galleryfurniture.com Bowl against Texas Tech.[20] During Holtz's first season, the Pirates also defeated conference foes Rice, Southern Methodist University, Marshall University, and the University of Alabama Birmingham. In 2006, Holtz's second season as head coach, ECU won seven games, including victories over intrastate rival North Carolina State University, Conference USA East rival Southern Miss, and ACC foe Virginia. As a reward for their season, the Pirates earned their first bowl game under Holtz's tenure, playing the Bulls of the University of South Florida in the Papajohns.com Bowl, losing 24–7.[21] Despite the bowl loss, the 2006 season was ECU's first winning season since 2000, and the Papajohns.com Bowl was the Pirates' first bowl game since 2001.[22] In 2007, Holtz's team won eight games, including wins over intrastate rival North Carolina and going 3–2, versus Conference USA East opponents. Finishing second in the East Division, Holtz’s team was invited to the Hawai'i Bowl to play #24 Boise State University.[23][24] East Carolina won the bowl game 41–38. This was the first bowl victory since the 2000 Galleryfurniture.com Bowl versus Texas Tech. It was also the first back-to-back winning season and bowl berth since the 1999 and 2000 seasons. The 2008 season was opened with two upsets over ranked opponents; 17th ranked Virginia Tech in week one and 8th ranked West Virginia. This was the first time a Conference USA team beat three ranked teams in a row. Skip finished up the season 9–5, which included a C-USA East Division title and C-USA Champions title. This was the first time the Pirates played in the C-USA Championship Game. It also was the first conference title since 1976. The Pirates played in the Liberty Bowl, losing to Kentucky, 25–19. This was the third Liberty Bowl appearance. The last time the Pirates went to three straight bowl games was the 1999, 2000 and 2001 seasons. In 2009 Skip Holtz led the ECU Pirates to a second CUSA championship. Coaching career[edit] Early positions[edit] Strong's first full-time coaching job was at Southern Illinois in 1986, where he coached wide receivers. He later assumed defensive coaching duties at Florida, Ole Miss, and Notre Dame. South Carolina[edit] In 1999, Strong joined the South Carolina Gamecocks as defensive coordinator. His stifling defenses and charismatic personality created buzz that he would be possibly the first black head coach in the SEC, but job offers were slim. Sylvester Croom eventually broke the color barrier in the SEC coaching ranks in 2004.[4] Florida[edit] Strong was hired as defensive coordinator for the Florida Gators before the 2003 season. Florida head coach Ron Zook was fired midway through the Gators' 2004 season, but continued to coach until the bowl game; Strong served as interim coach of the Gators for one game, the December 2004 Peach Bowl. Florida lost the game, 27–10, to Miami. When Urban Meyer was hired as Florida's head coach, Strong was the only assistant coach retained from Zook's staff. In a January 2009 interview with the Orlando Sentinel, Strong expressed his belief that race played a large part in the reason that he hadn't been offered a head coaching job in 2009. Strong, whose wife is white, especially cited prospective employers' discomfort with his interracial marriage.[5] Strong was a 2009 finalist for the Broyles Award, given annually to the nation's top assistant coach. Louisville[edit] He became the 21st head football coach at the University of Louisville on December 9, 2009.[6] In a telephone interview that day with ESPN.com columnist Pat Forde, former Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy said of Strong, "When they see what he can do, you're probably going to have a lot of people disappointed they didn't hire him sooner." Strong led Louisville to a victory in the 2013 Sugar Bowl over his former team, the Florida Gators, by a final score of 33–23.[7] It was the biggest upset victory in terms of point spread in any BCS bowl game since the inception of the BCS in 1998, as Florida entered the game favored by almost two touchdowns. On January 23, 2013, Strong was given a $1.4 million raise which brought his annual compensation to $3.7 million and raised his buyout to $5 million.[8] At the time it made him 7th highest paid active coach in college football and highest paid coach outside the SEC, Big 12, and Big Ten conferences.[9]

No it’s not, what I said makes you more likely to win in the future CCS had demonstrated at a far greater level than the kid of the guy that gave the bumble bee speech. There has never once been a person excited about CSH there is nothing exciting about him and that was the reason he was hired. I didn’t disqualify him for losing a game against CJL, I disqualified him for having a face that looks like this which is why he lost to CJL (you are putting the cart before the horse). Have a good day, if you want to.

No the exact opposite. When you fire a guy because you think he is plateauing your program most people would not look for the path to success being the guy that couldn’t beat him. If anything CCS would have been a better argument.

I have deescalation clauses for likes, days won, and engagement and I opened a new business card that has the right sub and bonus structure for paying online posting taxes that should help ease the burden.

If you have been successful before you are more likely to be successful again and if you come from a coaching tree that demonstrated past success you are more likely to be successful. CJS is known as the second best OC Clemson had on staff and the last best OC from Clemson to be a head coach is now doing so at a HS. There are definitely better indicators for success vs failure and CJS unfortunately checks ones that are more likely to lead to the results he is giving us. Can there be outliers? Absolutely! But we shouldn’t rely on them and if not for coaching in the ACC CJS wouldn’t have been the the horse we would have bet the program on.

He could go defeated this year and we wouldn’t be able to even consider doing more than giving him a stern talking to. We need CJS to succeed, which is probably why we should have picked a more sure fire option. That same link has Gus ranked 3rd while CJS has dropped from 10th to 11th (lucky for us Wichita State didn’t start a program this offseason or he would have dropped to 12th). Just win, it’s not that hard and half the teams in college football manage to do it every given week (unlike the rest of Dabo’s coaching line, CJS’ dad and shockingly enough CJS). CJS may in fact have a 5 year plan towards success and may one day prove to be a decent coach but we don’t have that kind of time and he needs to demonstrate something sooner than later. I know people think it’s entirely CCS’ fault for the team that he left CJS but if that’s true we have had quite a bit of turnover already so it maybe time to have some of these better* players start producing more than the players they are replacing. *better as defined by hopes and dreams and not corroborated by any recruiting rankings which seem to indicate that CJS is about as good at recruiting as he is at gameday coaching and hiring coordinators

So the players are getting bigger!

In all fairness to them they probably do look better when they are going against each other than they do when they go play against other teams

Seems like a fitting intro to our game

Don’t forget Covid that buys him at least 2-3 bonus years from what I’ve heard as we were uniquely impacted by something that only impacted the entire world

**** if Antigua wouldn’t sign you I may have to revisit my evaluation, or does it mean you may actually be good?

Sounds like some pretty solid stats from my USF fan perspective, do you have any eligibility left?

What’s my credit limit and will you pay discounted rates at higher tiers?

I don’t think they had them at my elementary school

And before anyone brings it up yes I’m aware that athletics couldn’t directly negotiate the NIL deals but they can get in front of the right people, let them know about all of the programs and discuss how they were there to raise money…. and to gauge the upcoming uncertainty of fundraising for the programs now that the NIL deals were going to be competing with them as well and that it maybe a way for people that couldn’t commit as a major sponsor of a program to stretch their marketing dollars.

I don’t think there are many people sitting around with a clue about women’s college basketball chomping at the bit for this rules change so they can support a team. I think you have to invent the idea for them as there were probably zero discussion about this, it’s not a part of anyone’s marketing budget and it’s not even on their road map. If anyone was sitting in the board room at the start of the year and said “hey chief I got an idea let’s give money to every girl on an AAC basketball team to be our sponsors and divert those dollars from something normal and with a proven and measurable ROI like pay per clicks” I’m pretty sure the response would have been something along the lines of “hey Jimmy I got an idea why don’t you get the **** out of here, I hear McDonalds down the street is paying $50 for people to just interview and since it is branded with a clown it seems like a better cultural fit for you”. I complain about athletics because we are failing, if we start attempting to succeed I will instantly become extremely positive but that’s entirely up to our VP (with bigger titles comes bigger expectations and with this title every year has come with greater losses). I honestly find it shocking that anyone can feel any differently as every year has been worse than the last which means every day that you see me on here it’s on the worst day of being a USF fan in my life, maybe you’re looking at the chart upside down?

Id be less inclined to hire a company selling college hunks to do anything with my junk than one that supports UCF women’s basketball but that’s just me

Why should he be calling us? We should be calling him and stopping by, we are the ones trying to sell something and bring brand awareness. It’s our job to know that these businesses exist and are looking for branding opportunities not their jobs to see if maybe a team called South Florida exists in Tampa and is interested in free money for their athletes. It actually explains a lot

We should probably hire an entire team of people that then gets to hire entire teams of people that then get to hire entire teams of people that then get to bring on hundreds of people that’s only job it is to get people to not be completely oblivious of our team and to get money from people. What if and this is a big what if we had already established a relationship with the guy and his company or perhaps tried to be on the forefront of getting sponsorships for our athletes instead of always being one of the last to market? VPMK and CJS are great at getting out to every other sporting event in the area, boosting them on social media and getting their pictures taken supporting all of the winning teams in Tampa how about for once getting people to want to go to our games and have a reason to support our team in the way you so enjoy doing it for everyone else? You know your ******* jobs. You know how happy you and everyone look in all of those pictures? Now go into our stands and see if anyone looks anything like that? Maybe if you fix that problem getting money maybe a smidge easier. Two years ago you could walk into any Bucs game, so the tide can change as quickly as you would like but you actually have to try to do something well.

I think Alan and his family do a great job in Broward for what they are working with

This is only going to get funnier to me the more you call it back