Nick Holt
Nick Holt
Nicholas "Nick" Holt V is a college football coach, currently the defensive coordinator for the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers. Prior to taking the position in 2013, he was the defensive coordinator and assistant head coach of the Washington Huskies for three seasons. Previously, Holt was the defensive coordinator and defensive line coach of the USC Trojans, and the head coach of the Idaho Vandals from 2004–05...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth15 October 1962
days football game good happy healthy hopefully minute opener prepare ready six week
We have six days to prepare for our opener and we're going to need every minute of it. I'm happy that we got out of the scrimmage healthy and hopefully we'll go into game week ready for a good football game.
cut football good job nevada nice playing running state washington work
Washington State is a good football team. They do a nice job running to the football, playing hard, pressuring and getting after you. Nevada has their work cut out for them.
confidence good great knew learned surrounded
I've got confidence in myself. I've learned a lot of good things from a lot of great coaches. I knew if I surrounded myself with the right kind of players, we'd be able to do some good things here.
atmosphere brings fun good intensity kids lights tonight work
The kids got after tonight and there was a lot of intensity and good hits. Getting under the lights brings a different atmosphere and it is fun for the kids. We got a lot of good work done.
good headed leave
I feel good about it. It's bittersweet to leave this place, especially when I know it's headed in the right direction. I know we can be good now.
ok
I think we'll be OK (on the line) this week.
leave program
I think we leave this program better than when we got here.
guys help needed time trying
We needed the time off to get healthy. We'll get some guys back and that will help us be competitive. We are trying to get better. We got back to fundamentals.
hell
He has one hell of an arm, man.
four guys ready
He's back over there and is happy. We've got to get all four of those guys ready to go.
finished game sophomore three true
We finished that game with three freshmen, a true sophomore and a junior. It wasn't very good.
decision guys hardest leaving
Leaving you guys is the hardest decision we made in our young career. You guys don't need me any more.
bottom coach head rebuilding takes time
When you're a head coach who is rebuilding a program, it takes time to build from down in the bottom when you want to do it right.
balances last until
They already have film of us from last year. They know what we do, and we didn't know what they did until (Monday). So it probably balances out.