Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz
Louis Leo "Lou" Holtzis a former American football player, coach, and analyst. He served as the head football coach at The College of William & Mary, North Carolina State University, the University of Arkansas, the University of Minnesota, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of South Carolina, compiling a career record of 249–132–7. Holtz's 1988 Notre Dame team went 12–0 with a victory in the Fiesta Bowl and was the consensus national champion. Holtz is the only college...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth6 January 1937
CityFollansbee, WV
CountryUnited States of America
Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.
It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
We decided we couldn't (cover punts) with two sprinters, ... So we said, 'Let's get seven sprinters going off the line so we can cover them.'
I think that win really turned our program around,
The alumni buried me every week. The plots have a view of the dome. It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.
The ability of a defense to dominate and stop the run forces you into a one-dimensional game. You come out wanting to play ball control, field position, but by the second quarter, you're down by 17 and you're forced to throw.
I said they were capable of it. I didn't say they were going to do it.
We had a lot of people call us. And a lot of people we played, they were all the sudden using it the next year.
They've got it over the hump. They've got it established. As long as they've got great senior leadership, it will continue to happen.
They better expand that stadium to 175,000 by Saturday if they're going to get everyone in there that thinks they're going to get in.
It's sound. Nobody ever blocked us because of a scheme. They might have blocked us because we didn't block somebody.
With his optimism and with the new enthusiasm that a new coach always brings, I think he can take it to the championship level, and I will be surprised if he doesn't win the championship. Not that it will be easy, but he's a very talented individual.
This Southern Cal team is capable of it, too. But I don't think they will. I just think Notre Dame really has a good shot at them.
This Southern Cal team is capable of it, too, ... But I don't think they will. I just think Notre Dame really has a good shot at them.