🏈 Skip Holtz to USF

[BAMAFSTBACK]

Is that really a move up?

 

[RollTideinGA]

It is a much larger university. More visible, a better football state. I would say yes and no.

 

[ElephantStomp]

I think if I was Skip Holtz I would've just stayed at ECU and waited for a better job to come along.

Cory

 

[Bo]

I think the biggest positive for the move would be a better recruiting base, and USF s in the Big East which is a BCS conference.

 

[LBS]

Being a Tampa guy, i.e. close to this environment, I'd say yes.

USF does not have a home campus stadium, but playing on the Bucs field is unique enough that ther right salesman can make that work in his favor. USF is a large school, over 40,000 students, so there is potential for good support among active students...and think about the side of that alumni base from a football state.

From a recruiting stand point, there are more blue cip recruits within an hour drive of here than are in the entire state of Tennessee. Arenas and Cody come to mind...2 All Americans who were not offered by Florida's other big boy schools. Further, the conference's more loose academic standards work in USF's favor...right, Mike Ford? Lets not for get that the conference is both very winnable and a BCS invite.

I think Skip will do very well. If you consider what Levitt had to work with once he arrived, Skip should be able to do special things at USF...relative to Jim Levitt's achievemnts. IMHO.

 

[LBS]

Being a Tampa guy, i.e. close to this environment, I'd say yes.

USF does not have a home campus stadium, but playing on the Bucs field is unique enough that ther right salesman can make that work in his favor. USF is a large school, over 40,000 students, so there is potential for good support among active students...and think about the side of that alumni base from a football state.

From a recruiting stand point, there are more blue cip recruits within an hour drive of here than are in the entire state of Tennessee. Arenas and Cody come to mind...2 All Americans who were not offered by Florida's other big boy schools. Further, the conference's more loose academic standards work in USF's favor...right, Mike Ford? Lets not for get that the conference is both very winnable and a BCS invite.

I think Skip will do very well. If you consider what Levitt had to work with once he arrived, Skip should be able to do special things at USF...relative to Jim Levitt's achievemnts. IMHO.

 

[c5vetman]

I thought Skip had turned down offers from other schools recently, why all of a sudden did he jump on this one? I do agree, however, that the basis for recruiting there would be spectacular. The big 3 can't get every blue chipper in that state, and he could always use the playing time thing to his advantage.

IMHO, this is a step up, but not one that is large enough that I would have made the change. I too would have waited on a top tier program, the grass isn't always greener on the other side.