USF's football opener is just two days away now, and Thursday's Times has a great column by John Romano on coach Skip Holtz and the perspective he keeps in balancing football and family. It's not an easy balance for a coach, but it's one Holtz makes a priority for himself and his assistants, Romano writes.

"Now the season is starting, so you are about to see this intense, emotional, driven coach. But he has managed — and praise God — to keep that inner core of his pure," his wife, Jennifer, says in the column. "Does he get it right all of the time? No. Does he miss some things with the kids because he's stuck in the office? Yes. But his priorities are there. The family still comes first."