He previously served as head coach of the East Tennessee State Buccaneers (2000–2017).
[1][2][3] Skole played baseball and football at The Citadel Bulldogs, a key part of several memorable teams in both sports.
In baseball, he was part of the team that reached the 1990 College World Series and drove in the go-ahead run against Cal State Fullerton in the Bulldogs only win in Omaha.
He played for both Chal Port and Fred Jordan, whom he succeeded as head coach of the Bulldogs in 2017.
[4] He was a starting Defensive Back on football teams that beat the University of South Carolina, the University of Arkansas and the United States Military Academy; the Bulldogs reached the Division I-AA playoffs twice, for the first time in school history.