Lou Holtz

[Kempo Cane]

Prayers for Holtz and you,

 

[Headhunter]

 

[DTP]

It’s not just that Holtz was a coach at a hated rival. There’s been plenty of those over the years. It’s that he spent his entire post Notre Dame career trashing Miami. He held a big *** grudge decades after the rivalry had pretty much gone away. There’s no mutual respect like Bobby Bowden. Bobby didn’t like us but he respected us. Holtz was a hater to the core. I won’t say I’m happy but I’m not sad.

 

[poncho0091]

I was never a fan when he was a coach, especially at ND, but I went to a speaker series, and he was one of the speakers, and he was great, seemed like a good man.

I think this is at the top of where our problem lies with them. He had himself on a pedestal as a good man and probably was, but decided to make Miami a villain in his story. In the process, he contributed to a lifelong condemnation of the university based on events that occurred over 30 years ago that impacts player's reputation to this day, none of which had anything to do with those times. He's not the only one, but he helped carry that story forward. Good men like that, hold a grudge that impacts people that did nothing to him. Sounds like any other story of a man filled with hatred wishing the worst on people who did nothing wrong to them.

 

[SayWhat]

I was never a fan when he was a coach, especially at ND, but I went to a speaker series, and he was one of the speakers, and he was great, seemed like a good man.

You know, he grew on me or I grew up. I despised that man when he was the head coach in South Bend. I'll never forget how he whined and cried after we destroyed their championship season, giving us no credit whatsoever.

Still, later in life he seemed very positive, upbeat, and fair when he'd talk football. He's literally the guy who made me realize that coaches often are actors in a sense, they've got a role to play as well.

Like him or not, he's the last of an age. Legend.

 

[WndyCityCane]

Prayed for him. A good man from what I have heard.