Listening to the interview, anyone else get the feeling...

[Guest hm101]

http://pirateradio1250.com/pod/special/SkipHoltz_011410.mp3

Anyone else get the feeling here that Skip isn't as excited about this as he should be? He hasn't said once that he is excited, anything about Tampa, anything about the opportunity to play in a BCS bowl... he clearly says its not a professional or a career move, its a family move. Either he is playing nice and saving it for tomorrow, or he genuinely thinks of this as a neutral move and only cares about being an hours drive away from his family. I hope he actually cares about, oh you know, the JOB that he's coming down here for.

[Who'sYourData?]

This interview is clearly for the benefit of ECU and it's fans.  He's mentioned over and over again how good ECU is going to be, how difficult to leave, what great football players they have...

Tomorrow will be the USF pep rally.

[hbryan]

Local consumption stuff.  Very nice guy and is not burning bridges.  Class act!

[Guest nobullhere]

breaking up is a hard thing to do. He just let them down easy. Its not you, its me type a thing.

[widerberg]

Hopefully, he'll gush tomorrow. Probably doesn't want to appear too happy until he's out of town. I hope.  :-\

[BULL2001]

Tomorrow will be the..."I'm here to win a National Championship for South Florida, something I could not have said in the past as a head coach!"

[Guest nybullsfan]

He's an excellent politician, playing to the crowd. See the video of his arrival - he's already gushing for the Bulls.

http://blogs.tampabay.com/usf/2010/01/holtz-touches-down-1.html

[SpikeBull]

The picture of Skip throwing up the horns says it all. That's a huge grin on his face!!!!

He (and War Bumblebee) also said a lot of good things about the USF situation during the process.

[SaltyBulls]

You are reading WAY to much into things!

[macphisto]

And look at his video at gousfbulls.com.  He seems pretty excited to me.  But I think he's careful not to slap ECU in the face.  Family is a big reason for him to be here, but the guy wants to win and he is a proven winner.  Very much into the concept of team from the football team to the administrators to the fans.  

I loved hearing JP Peterson gush about him earlier today too.  He knew him at FSU.  The guy loves football and loves winning.  He also can win conference titles and has been able to get his teams to hang with teams no one thinks they should hang with.

We've got talent and I think we've underachieved on many occasions.  I think Holtz can get our talent to overachieve on a consistent basis and that will translate into Big East titles, BCS berths, and maybe shots at BCS titles.  I'm excited.  I'm grateful for what Leavitt did for us but I've wondered since 2008 if maybe he couldn't get us over the hump.  I didn't want it to end the way it did, but I like our chances with Skip Holtz and think we just improved dramatically in our chances to take the Big East next year.