Lou Holtz Biography
Lou Holtz “Louis Leo Holtz” is an American former football player, coach, and analyst known for having served as the head football coach at The College of William & Mary (1969–1971), North Carolina State University (1972–1975), the New York Jets (1976), the University of Arkansas (1977–1983), the University of Minnesota (1984–1985), the University of Notre Dame (1986–1996), and the University of South Carolina (1999–2004), compiling a career record of 249–132–7.
Lou Holtz Age | How Old Is Lou Holtz
Holtz was born in Follansbee, West Virginia on 6th of January 1937. He is 82 years old as of 2019.
Lou Holtz Family
Holtz grew up in East Liverpool, Ohio, where he was raised as a Roman Catholic. He has not yet shared his family and siblings information because of being secretive over his personal life.
Lou Holtz Wife | Lou Holtz Wife
Holtz got married to Beth Barcus on 22nd of 1961 and currently resides in Lake Nona Golf & Country Club in Orlando, Florida.
Lou Holtz Children
The pair has four children, three of them Notre Dame graduates and Their eldest son, Skip, as the head football coach at Louisiana Tech University.
Lou Holtz Education
He was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity where he played college football as an undersized linebacker. He later graduated in 1959 with a degree in History. Holtz as well trained under Kent State’s Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps where he earned a commission as a Field Artillery Officer in the United States Army Reserve at the time of his graduation from college.
Lou Holtz Career And Career
He started off his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Iowa in 1960, where he received his master’s degree. He then made stops as an assistant at William & Mary as from 1961–1963, Connecticut from 1964–1965, South Carolina from 1966–1967 and Ohio State in 1968.
He later went to the University of Arkansas in 1977. In his seven years there where the Razorbacks compiled a 60–21–2 record and reached six bowl games.
In his first season at Arkansas, he led them to a berth in the 1978 Orange Bowl against the Oklahoma Sooners, then coached by University of Arkansas alumnus Barry Switzer.
The Sooners were in the position to win their third national championship in four seasons after having top-ranked Texas lost earlier in the day to fifth-ranked Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl Classic. Arkansas’ chances looked slim after the team lost several key personnel just before the game.
In one of his last practices, All-American guard, Leotis Harris suffered a season-ending injury, and only a couple of days later Holtz suspended both starting running backs, Ben Cowins and Michael Forrest, and top receiver, Donny Bobo, for disciplinary reasons.
Holtz was later dismissed following a 6–5 campaign in 1983 and at the time, athletic director Frank Broyles stated that Holtz had resigned because he was “tired and burned out”, and was not fired. Broyles testified 20 years later that he had fired Holtz because he was losing the fan base with things he said and did.
He then accepted being the head coach job at the University of Minnesota before the 1984 season. The Golden Gophers had only won one game vs.
Rice in 1983, but under Holtz won 4 games, including 3 in the Big Ten. In 1985 the team was 7-5 and were invited to the Independence Bowl, where they defeated Clemson, 20–13. Holtz did not coach the Gophers in that bowl game, as he had already accepted the head coaching position at Notre Dame.
He confirmed that he had been fired, but that Broyles never gave him a reason, although reports he cited that his political involvement as a major reason: controversy arose over his having taped two television advertisements from his coach’s office endorsing the re-election of Jesse Helms as Senator from North Carolina at a time when Helms In 1986, He later left Minnesota to take over the then-struggling Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program.
As a taskmaster and strict disciplinarian, he had the names removed from the backs of the players’ jerseys when he took over at Notre Dame, wanted to emphasize team effort. With the exception of select bowl games, names have not been included on Notre Dame’s jerseys since.
Lou Holtz Net Worth
Holtz has an estimated net worth of $20 million.
Lou Holtz Books
- Holtz, Lou (1974). The Grass Is Greener.
- Holtz, Lou; Dugan, Donald (1978). Holtz’ Quotes.
- Holtz, Lou (1978). The Offensive Side of Lou Holtz.
- Holtz, Lou (1980). The Kitchen Quarterback. Little Rock,
- Heisler, John (1989). The Fighting Spirit: A
- Holtz, Lou (1998). Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success
- Carpenter, Monte (2002). Quotable Lou:
- Holtz, Lou (2002). A Teen’s Game Plan for Life. Notre Dame,
- Holtz, Lou; Patterson, James (2006). Don’t Flinch Barry Alvarez,
- Holtz, Lou (2006). Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography.
Lou Holtz Quotes
- Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
- Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
No one has ever drowned in sweat. - Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care, and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
- I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
If you’re bored with life — you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals. - Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.
- Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
Lou Holtz House Fire
His 11,000-square-foot mansion caught fire and burned for several hours before firefighters could extinguish the flames. The Orlando Sentinel reported that it took more than 60 firefighters and 26 vehicles arrived at Holtz’s Lake Nona house at 2:42 a.m. The fire had spread out by 5:59 a.m and fire officials are checking to see if lightning in the area caused the fire.
Holtz’s home appraises for $1.6 million, and the extent of the damage is not known at this time. Holtz could not be reached by the Sentinel Monday.
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