LA Tech, Holtz Announce Coaching Change Following Rice Game - latechsports.com

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Originally Posted by Brad

Please enlighten us on how this could backfire tremendously?

Also, please bestow upon us all of the wonderful things that would have happened to us if Holtz stayed next year.

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If you weigh all the options, I have no idea how someone could be worried about this backfiring on us versus what we were 99% sure was gonna happen.

I've followed Louisiana Tech for 50 years...and while it has been a very rough two years for Tech athletics, we've survived worse. We've always bounced back before, and I believe this to be the first step toward our future. I wish Skip and his family the best.

We'll never know what would have happened moving forward. In year one I doubt most of us (myself included) would have expected the bowl streak or 9 and 10 win seasons.

It's always really risky to change coaches. Always.

But as conservative as I am on this kind of thing, the ODU loss was the turning point in my mind towards "maybe it's time." The USM loss with no QB solidified it.

I wish him well in his next gig. I do think he has some valuable coaching skills that some other program could benefit from. He might be a hard sell for an AD at the moment because of the way things are ending at Tech, but a program looking for stability could do worse.

I just really didn't think it would happen.

It's going to be an interesting year to be looking. On one hand there are a ton of openings (with more coming). On the other, maybe we get a recently fired guy like a Mullen or Paterson for a couple of years that we'd otherwise not been able to afford while previous school pays them. Not sure we'd want either of those two specifically, but same principle.

His next gig will not be anything to do with coaching football.

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Originally Posted by BhadDawg

I have been wanting this to happen for several years now, and I am glad this has finally transpired, BUT...

I want to wish HCSH and his family the best, he has had some good moments here and has made some good things happen. He is in a business where HC jobs have expiration dates and it is very rare that a coach gets to stay at a HC job for a really extended amount of time. I really think he knew it was time to move on and I wish him a happy landing.

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This is the dirty side of the business, but I'm not sure this could have been handled any better than it appears to be going down.

I appreciate what Holtz brought to Ruston, and we will all be able to remember the good times much more fondly with it going down this way now than waiting until later to get it done.

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

His next gig will not be anything to do with coaching football.

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"I am not done coaching football and have great passion and energy to continue to lead young men through this game that I love so much," Holtz said. "It is just time for me to channel my energies elsewhere."

He’s a nice guy, I wish him well, but it was time. Good luck coach Holtz…. I hear ULL may have an opening you could fill ;)

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Originally Posted by FriscoDawg

"I am not done coaching football and have great passion and energy to continue to lead young men through this game that I love so much," Holtz said. "It is just time for me to channel my energies elsewhere."

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I guess we’ll see. Maybe he will work for free

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Originally Posted by FriscoDawg

"I am not done coaching football and have great passion and energy to continue to lead young men through this game that I love so much," Holtz said. "It is just time for me to channel my energies elsewhere."

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I think that statement was right on, he has simply burned out at this stop, and that is a head coaches life, multiple stops and moves. I think he is better suited to finding a rock bottom program and rejuvenating it.

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

I guess we’ll see. Maybe he will work for free

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Maybe we can keep him on in a diminished capacity....like OC or QB coach.

Running for cover now!

That said, I wish him well. He seems like a good fellow. I feel for anyone that loses a job they love, but I'd feel worse if it was the guy that cleans the stadium after the games because he'd be in much worse shape financially. Skip has been well paid and will be fine.

Good luck to Skip! I have nothing against him - he just wasn't right for us and we need someone that will shake things up and win again.

We were at the very bottom. He led us there. Now y’all carry on with the Skip praise.

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

We were at the very bottom. He led us there. Now y’all carry on with the Skip praise.

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All you ever do is whine.

Tech and northeast finna swap HCs.

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Originally Posted by Tech52

All you ever do is whine.

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How is speaking the truth “whining”? He was getting paid well to lead us to the bottom. No need to wish him luck.