Gallery: (3-24-2023) Devin Holiday Gallery
DEVIN HOLIDAY
POSITION: CORNERBACKS COACH
EMAIL: devinholiday@isu.edu
COLLEGE: University of Arizona (2017)
PRIMARY RECRUITING AREAS: San Diego, CA, Farmington, UT and Cache Valley, ID
AT A GLANCE:
- Four-year letterman at Arizona with three bowl appearances (Advocare, Fiesta, New Mexico)
- Experience in high school, DII, and DIII
- Was on the staff with the Fighting Illini when they went to the Redbox Bowl
- Previously held titles of Pass Game Coordinator and Recruiting Coordinator
CAREER BACKGROUND:
Season Team/School Position/Title
2017 Mission Hills Valley HS Secondary Coach
2018 Ohio Wesleyan Cornerbacks Coach
2019 University of Illinois Defensive Analyst
2020 Lake Erie College Secondary/Defensive Pass Game Coordinator
2021 Ashland University Safeties/Defensive Pass Game Coordinator
2022 Idaho State University Safeties/Recruiting Coordinator
2023 Idaho State University Cornerbacks Coach
COACH HOLIDAY:
With 38 appearances at both safety and cornerback during his time at Arizona, Devin Holiday was part of a team that won the Pac-12 South Division and made three bowl
games.
Coach Holiday began his coaching career in his native San Diego, spending a season coaching the secondary at Mission Hills Valley High School overseeing both corner and safeties before moving onto the college coaching ranks in Ohio.
With Ohio Wesleyan in DIII, he mentored two all-conference cornerbacks and help engineer the #1 pass defense in the conference. A one-year stint in the Big 10 followed at the University of Illinois, working closely with the defensive backs under former NFL Head Coach, Lovie Smith and the vaunted “Tampa 2” Defense. Coach Holiday also spent time in the DII ranks at Lake Erie College and Ashland University working in the secondary and providing Defensive Pass Game coordination.
He joined Idaho State in 2022 working originally with safeties before transitioning to cornerbacks in 2023.
