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Nick Holt has a new job

Todd Dybas — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:54:55 +0000

After being fired by Washington following the 2011 Alamo Bowl, former defensive coordinator Nick Holt has a new full-time gig.

Western Kentucky announced Holt as its new defensive coordinator on Wednesday. The Hiltoppers had already gone out on a limb to hire Bobby Petrino, who was fired by Arkansas for a slew of ignorant things, before hiring Holt.

“Nick is now another guy on our staff that has a national championship ring on his finger and has experience at all levels of coaching,” Petrino said in a press release. “He is a great motivator and is

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Wrapping up the Nick Holt firing and few other links

Ryan Divish — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:59:35 +0000

Well, yesterday was supposed to be a light day in terms of football coverage and that all changed with the 11 a.m. email we received from the University of Washington informing us of the firing of Nick Holt, Mike Cox and Jeff Mills.

From my story for today’s TNT.

After the Alamo Bowl loss, Sarkisian was adamant to the point of anger that he would evaluate the performance of his defensive staff along with all other facets of the team before making a decision.

Apparently, that evaluation period was less than 48 hours.

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Alamo Bowl: Full transcript and audio of UW defense press conference with a little video

Ryan Divish — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:46:42 +0000

NICK HOLT: Hi, guys. It’s good to be here. I’m going to introduce our players from my left to right. Starting off with our starting strong safety, a sophomore out of Los Angeles, California, Sean Parker; the next young man from Tacoma, Washington, starting corner, junior, Desmond Trufant; myself, Nick Holt; and then to my right, senior, also from Seattle, Washington, starting defensive end, Everrette Thompson, has been a four‑year starter for us; next young man, also from

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Audio: Nick Holt’s weekly radio show on KJR

Ryan Divish — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:53:03 +0000

Not a ton of interesting stuff on there. But Holt did say that defensive tackle Alameda Ta’amu injured his ankle against USC and then retweaked again at practice. Couple that with a dislocated thumb that Ta’amu suffered a few weeks ago and he’s pretty beat up. But Holt said he was pretty certain that Ta’amu would be ready to play on Saturday.

Nick Holt’s postgame comment

Ryan Divish — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 05:55:25 +0000

Because of deadline issues, I wasn’t able to wait out defensive coordinator Nick Holt. But I was able to get a transcript of it from Condotta. Holt had family obligations so he really only took one question before leaving, obviously it was about his defense’s struggles against the run.

“They just they got into extra offensive linemen and just kept grinding away and at times we played it correctly and then they popped a bunch of them. And they just kept with it and we couldn’t knock them out of it and then early in the game third downs we

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