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Lou Holtz (Official Thread)

You're lying. There's no way someone can be so stupid. One of my cats who is kind of ditzy and has no idea what football is could tell me that's extremely pathetic. Syracuse went 1-10, Pitt went 5-6, and I believe Navy went something like 7-5 or something around there. That's a combined 13-21 record. Can you tell me what their reactions were after he said that? Bring in Robert Smith!

He said it during halftime of one of the Bowl games this afternoon. Both the hosts acted kind of surprised. The exchange went something like this:

Host (I forget his name): Mark, you look like you have something to say.
May: I'm just going to bite my tongue.
Host: But you get paid to speak your mind.
May: Alright. Fine. What quality team did Notre Dame defeat this year?
Holtz: Pitt! They're a quality team!
May: What?
Holtz: Navy!
Host: Maybe fifty years ago, they were a quality team.
Holtz: Syracuse!
Stunned silence as ESpin quickly cuts to commercial.
 
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He said it during halftime of one of the Bowl games this afternoon. Both the hosts acted kind of surprised. The exchange went something like this:

Host (I forget his name): Mark, you look like you have something to say.
May: I'm just going to bite my tongue.
Host: But you get paid to speak your mind.
May: Alright. Fine. What quality team did Notre Dame defeat this year?
Holtz: Pitt! They're a quality team!
May: What?
Holtz: Navy!
Host: Maybe fifty years ago, they were a quality team.
Holtz: Syracuse!
Stunned silence as ESpin quickly cuts to commercial.

M*ch*g*n!
M*ch*g*n State! Wait, nevermind...
Washington!
Purdue!
Almost USC!
BYU!
Stanford!



:slappy: :stupid:
 
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Guys I know this may sound bad, but lately, Mark May has become a very decent analysist. He makes Lou Holtz look dumber than he already does, he probably doesnt even know what year it is. Every time hes on Gameday now, he stresses the point that OSU will win.
 
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I can't say Mark May has become a decent analyst...he already has DeAngelo Williams breaking Emmitt Smith's record...but I certainly can agree that Lou Holtz has made him look like Norman Einstein by comparison (thanks Joe T). It's no wonder Holtz always said he thought other teams were going to beat him...it wasn't buttering them up, it's because he really DID think Louisiana-Lafayette was 9-0 and heading to the Orange Bowl...WTF?
 
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Say it ain't so

"Pitt...Navy...Syracuse?"

That was not pretty. I hope the wife and kids were out of the room at the time.

As a major domer he sure put the ho in homer, but I remember Lou Holtz as a solid head coach who was at one time one of Woody's sharpest assistants. But that time and mind are worlds away.

Unfortunately, Lou now appears minutes away from a drool bib and diapers. He has sadly become a media clown–regularly pimped on national TV by Mark May of all people.

Let no one here forget that Mark May never passed up a shot at tOSU as the dumber half of the "Dumb and Dumber" circus on ESPN with the late dildo Trev Alberts. May has been a butt of water cooler jokes and the network's on–air cipher for years. Now sitting next to Lou he seems almost conscious. Almost.

Perhaps NFBuck said it best with: "When you make Mark May...MARK MAY(!) look like your intellectual superior, all I can say is Wow...Lispy Lou makes Mark May look like friggin' Winston Churchill."
 
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everytime ole lou gets talking...i can't help but to scream at the tv, "lou...GET THE TESTICLES out of your mouth!". to ice the cake, his predictions are almost as obnoxious and unacceptable as his lisp.

if we're lucky, charlie will call lou up for some advice...then we can serve them like we did in the mid 90's. :)
 
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Anyone catch Lou hanging with his Domer homer Regis last night? Lou ain't got nothin over on Dick Clark when it comes to marbles in the mouth. At least Dick has a medical excuse.

As for Regis, he couldn't even bring himself to mention that ND was playing the Buckeyes the other day when talking about the game.
 
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Anyone catch Lou hanging with his Domer homer Regis last night? Lou ain't got nothin over on Dick Clark when it comes to marbles in the mouth. At least Dick has a medical excuse.

As for Regis, he couldn't even bring himself to mention that ND was playing the Buckeyes the other day when talking about the game.

Lou sounds like he could spit his false teeth out at any second!!! How funny would that be to see hie teeth go flying across the ESPN desk & they have to cut to commercial!:rofl:
I agree with you about Dick Clark.I thought for as bad of a stroke Dick Clark had he looked great & there were a few times where his speech sounded good & bad! I think with time he will improve!He made a huge comeback I thought.I'm sure it took alot of courage on his part for that comeback.
As for Regis,blah! No comment! :biggrin:
 
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Tireless Holtz demonstrates a zest for life



(October 25, 2006) ? Forty years ago, Lou Holtz took pen to paper and wrote down 108 things he wanted to experience in his life.

Among the wishes he's been able to cross off the list:
Have dinner at the White House.

Parachute out of an airplane.

Write a best-selling book.

Coach a college football team to the national championship.
"We've been able to do 102 things," the former Notre Dame football coach and current ESPN analyst said. "I still haven't run with the bulls in Pamplona (Spain) or gone on an African picture safari. But, Lord willing, there's still time."
I just hope Holtz has left room to add a few more items to that list because this hyper 69-year-old shows no signs of slowing down.

"I don't want to get greedy," jokes Holtz, the featured speaker at today's Compeer Sports Luncheon at the Riverside Convention Center. "I've already done more than I thought possible or deserved."
Of all the experiences he's had, nothing influenced him more profoundly than the 11 years he spent at Notre Dame. He inherited a struggling program, and woke up the echoes of coaching legends Rockne, Leahy and Parseghian while leading the Irish to a national title in 1988.
Holtz had coached at Ohio State and Arkansas and in the NFL with the New York Jets, but none of those stops could hold a grotto candle to his time in South Bend.
"It's a special, special place, and I'm not just talking about the great football tradition there," Holtz said. "They not only educate, they formulate. By that, I mean that they formulate leaders and caring people ? people with values and character."
Holtz's three children graduated from the university, and he and his wife plan to be buried there.

"If you've been to Notre Dame, no explanation is necessary," he said. "And if you haven't been there, no explanation will suffice."
When he retired from the school following the 1996 season, he never expected to coach again. But those who knew the restless Holtz knew better. He wound up taking over a moribund South Carolina program in 1999, and resuscitating it, just as he had during head-coaching stints at William & Mary, North Carolina State, Arkansas and Notre Dame.
Sadly, his illustrious career ended on a down note in 2004. During his final game, the Gamecocks got into a bench-emptying altercation with rival Clemson. It was reminiscent of, though not quite as brutal as, the recent row between Miami and Florida International.
"It is humiliating and embarrassing to have your school get caught up in a riot like that," Holtz said. "I obviously wasn't proud that it happened, but I was proud of the way we reacted to it afterwards. Both Clemson and us were scheduled to go to bowl games after that game, but we decided it was in the best interest of our schools and college football if we declined the invitations. We took strong measures to punish ourselves because you just can't condone that type of behavior."
Holtz misses the camaraderie and relationships associated with coaching young men. But he has no interest in returning to the profession he practiced for nearly five decades as a head coach and assistant. That part of his life is over, and the void is being filled by numerous ventures.
Holtz is enjoying his work as an ESPN analyst, and continues to travel the country giving motivational speeches and promoting his fifth book, published this fall.
He continues to advocate for a college football playoff system.

"I'd like to see the four top teams play after you've played all the bowl games," Holtz said. "Eventually that will happen, but for some reason the NCAA and the college presidents don't want it to happen right now. At some point, the pressure will be too much for them to continue to resist."
He's not surprised the Big East Conference has bounced back from the defections of Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College to the ACC, and he believes Syracuse will reemerge as a power in the not-so-distant future.
"I think they've shown a lot of progress this season, already, having won three games and playing Iowa and Louisville tough," he said. "They just have to do a better job recruiting players in the East ? players they've been losing to places like BC, Penn State and Rutgers in recent years."
Count Holtz among those pleased with the job Charlie Weis has done at Notre Dame.

"It's just too bad they lost that game to Michigan in game two," he said. "But if you are going to lose, it's better to lose early. They could still be in the national championship game, but they're going to have to run the table ? which I believe they can ? and they are going to have to count on some people to lose."
Holtz, who turns 70 on Jan. 6, remains a man in constant motion. He loves following college football and delivering humorous, uplifting speeches about the lessons he has learned, on and off the field.
His zest for life remains robust.

I've got a strong feeling he'll need to expand that list before all's said and done.
 
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