Former Gamecock Star DeVonte Holloman Hired By In-State Prep School

Former South Carolina Football star Devonte Holloman is leaving his analyst role to take the head coaching job at Pinewood Prep School in South Carolina.

South Carolina's staff of off-field assistants has been raided by a bevy of different schools in recent months, with offensive graduate assistant Nick Coleman being hired by Trent Dilfer and the UAB Blazers back in December, special teams analyst Stanton Weber being hired by Toledo as a coordinator and Freddie Kitchens being hired as North Carolina's tight end coach. While these off-field assistants don't usually receive the fanfare compared to the on-field coaches, they play a critical role in terms of doing some of the grunt work with scouting, creating game plans and even leading individual drills during practices when both allowed and needed.

One type of person you might see when it comes to a major college football program's staff of off-field assistants is former players who come back to their alma mater to get their start in coaching, and for South Carolina, they employed one such analyst this past fall in DeVonte Holloman. Holloman was a star Spur linebacker for South Carolina between the years 2009 and 2012, a stretch where DeVonte racked up 209 total tackles and seven interceptions, and was noted during his college career as someone who played a vital role in the Gamecocks winning streak against their arch-rivals in the Clemson Tigers.

Holloman, however, after coming from the high school coaching ranks in the Palmetto State, is heading back to the level where he started his coaching career, as it was first reported by Scott Eisberg of WCIV in Charleston, SC that DeVonte was taking the head coaching position at Pinewood Prep School.

How about this for a monster hire.

Pinewood Prep has hired Devonte Holloman as their new head football coach.

Holloman comes from South Carolina, where he was on the staff, and before that, won a state title as HC of South Pointe.

— Scott Eisberg (@SEisbergWCIV) February 28, 2023

Eisberg would later interview Holloman about his reasoning behind the decision to leave South Carolina for Pinewood Prep, and DeVonte mentioned specifically that he "[missed] the high school level, [and] the impact [he] felt like he made at the high school level."

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