High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Louis Leo "Skip" Holtz, Jr. (born March 12, 1964) is the head coach of the University of South Florida football team. For the previous five years, he served as the head coach of the East Carolina University football team. Skip, a former American football player, was the head coach of the Connecticut Huskies football team between 1994 and 1998 and an assistant head coach for the University of South Carolina Gamecocks between 1998 and 2004.