Nick Holt in Seattle

by John Berkowitz on Jan 4, 2009 9:21 PM PST Comment 20 comments

Numerous sources have confirmed that Nick Holt is in Seattle with a two week reservation at the same hotel Steve Sarkisian is staying at.

Molly Yanity's story in the PI earlier this weekend is standing up but Holt still has not agreed to a contract according to Bob Condotta of the Seattle Times.

"We're talking,'' Sarkisian said. "It's not done. Hopefully we'll know one way or the other pretty soon.''

Stay tuned because the assistant coaching ante at Washington is about to dramatically increase. if your are OC Jim Jim Michalczik it means an immediate pay raise two weeks into the job.

This just in from Scott Wolf at Inside USC.

Nick Holt is flying to Seattle tomorrow to decide if he wants to accept the defensive coordinator's job at Washington. And it means he lied Saturday when he said he was not interested in the position.

Wolf who is a USC grad is kind if a hack but provides the best up to date info on what is going on at USC.

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WOW!!!

If Sark can steal him from USC I will be greatly impressed. It must be one sweet offer to make a sideways move to an 0-12 team. I’m guessing there is an Assistant Head Coach title included in the potential deal.

"Bow Down to Washington"
"Kick the tires and light the fires!"

by Lear Pilot on Jan 4, 2009 9:42 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Money

They are really going to have to up the ante to get Holt from USC.

If they do that all the assistant coaches get immediate raises.

by John Berkowitz on Jan 4, 2009 9:53 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Money should be no object...

But since it is…

By my count if a more established coach was going to get 2.5m than we have an extra $700k free to throw at a good staff. If Sark can pull this off, he’ll have (on paper of course) a top two staff in the conference.

by B Money on Jan 4, 2009 9:56 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Call me stubborn, but if Sarkisian is getting the OK to ratchet up coordinator salaries, I’d still prefer he make a run at Banker. Not that I’d be unhappy with Holt, but I think Banker has been more impressive given what he has to work with.

But I suspect this is all about a comfort level that Sarkisian already has with Holt…

by kirkd on Jan 4, 2009 10:16 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Banker is great/best friends with Reily...

he won’t leave OSU and has no aspirations to be a head coach. But I’m with you Kirk Banker is the best D cordinator – maybe in the country considering the level of talent he starts with.

by Snostrebla on Jan 5, 2009 8:21 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Banker

Banker won’t be leaving OSU for anything but a head coaching job.

by John Berkowitz on Jan 5, 2009 9:28 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

They have the cash

by John Berkowitz on Jan 4, 2009 10:03 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Announcement

Could this be the big that you have had me waiting for?

by AllEyezOnMe on Jan 4, 2009 11:00 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Most folks

thought it was a stadium refurb annoncement but I’ll take this surprise, if it happens

by T9ODawg on Jan 5, 2009 7:02 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Stadium

The announcement is about the stadium.

by John Berkowitz on Jan 5, 2009 9:29 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

YES

So it looks like Christmas came a little late this year

by AllEyezOnMe on Jan 5, 2009 5:21 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

A question on salaries

JB, you have put Holt’s money in the $700-750k range, Bob Condotta has him at $500k. Is it all just speculation because USC is private? Are there different factors being considered for each figure? Either way, UW could probably shoot about 15% lower than USC on account of Seattle being a little less expensive than L.A.

Our leather lungs together...

by attakid117 on Jan 5, 2009 2:32 AM PST reply actions 0 recs