Skip Holtz’s chance to be a head coach at Williams-Brice Stadium finally comes Saturday. It took a lot longer than Holtz once believed it would.
Holtz was an assistant coach at South Carolina from 1999-2004 while his father Lou Holtz was the Gamecocks head coach, and Lou Holtz wrote in a 2006 book that he had been promised by then-athletics director Mike McGee that Skip would succeed his father as head coach when Lou retired.
However, the Gamecocks hired Steve Spurrier as head coach when Lou Holtz retired.
“This hurt me deeply,” Lou Holtz wrote in an autobiography entitled “Wins, Losses and Lessons,” “because Skip and I had been misled.