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
In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.
As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.
I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.
Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.
Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me?
It's sound. Nobody ever blocked us because of a scheme. They might have blocked us because we didn't block somebody.
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.
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.
You get in that traditional punt formation and you spend hours trying to pick this up and that up. We didn't spend one-fifteenth that time in our spread-punt formation.
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.