Linehan loses assistant Holt to USC

***RamWraith*** · -02-08-2006

By Bill Coats
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Tuesday, Feb. 07 2006

Just when he thought he had his staff in place, new Rams head coach Scott
Linehan suddenly has an unexpected opening.

Nick Holt, who had resigned as head coach at the University of Idaho to become
Linehan's defensive line coach, did an about-face Tuesday. A day after his
appointment to the Rams' staff was announced, Holt accepted the defensive
coordinator's job at the University of Southern California.

Holt and Linehan, both 42, have been friends for years. They coached together
at Idaho and at Louisville. Holt told reporters in Idaho that he turned down
Linehan's first offer to come to St. Louis about two weeks ago but changed his
mind over the weekend. "It's an opportunity I just couldn't turn down," he said.

But Holt changed his mind a second time and decided to join another former
colleague, Pete Carroll, at USC. Holt was the Trojans' linebackers coach for
three years before taking the head-coaching job at Idaho in 2003. His Vandals
teams went 5-18 over two seasons.

Attempts to reach Linehan and Holt were unsuccessful.

**AvengerRam** · -02-08-2006

Is Larry Brooks available? (don't know if he was retained by new coach in Detroit)

Anyway...

I suppose that if this were an article in the New York Post, the headline would read:

Holt's Bolt Gives Rams A Jolt!