COMMENTARY : HOLTZ WON'T GO AWAY MAD IRISH COACH WILL JUST GO AWAY, AND WHO CAN BLAME HIM?Byline: Terence Moore Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sometimes, you just can't take anymore. That's all. After nearly 11 seasons, 99 victories and many games of waking up the echoes of both fame and infamy Notoriety; condition of being known as possessing a shameful or disgraceful reputation; loss of character or good reputation. At Common Law, infamy was an individual's legal status that resulted from having been convicted of a particularly reprehensible crime, rendering him as football coach at the University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame , Lou Holtz This article is about the American football coach; for other people named Lou Holtz, see Lou Holtz (disambiguation). Louis Leo Holtz (born on January 6, 1937 in Follansbee, West Virginia) is an author, television commentator, motivational speaker, and former NCAA football head has decided that he just can't take anymore. So what can't Holtz take anymore while running the nation's most loved and hated team? Everything. The demands are impossible. They range from the cartons of letters Holtz receives each day, all of which he responds to personally, to the expectations that Notre Dame should win the national championship at least once every season. And, with NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. televising all of Notre Dame's home games, Atlantic Coast Conference The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953, the ACC's twelve member universities compete in twenty sports in the NCAA's Division I. commissioner Gene Corrigan said, ``A Notre Dame coach isn't allowed to lose ever again. You're already the No. 1 target for everybody on your schedule, and that just makes it worse.'' Corrigan should know. Corrigan was the athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic at Notre Dame who hired Holtz. After Corrigan, there was Dick Rosenthal, and while Holtz ranked Corrigan and Rosenthal as his buddies, Holtz views current Notre Dame athletics director Mike Wadsworth Mike Wadsworth, a native of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada who died April 28, 2004 at the age of 60, was an all star Canadian Football League defensive lineman. Wadsworth, who played his high school football at De La Salle High School in Toronto, attended the prestigious football as his boss. Or worse. Still, during a press conference Tuesday in South Bend South Bend, city (1990 pop. 105,511), seat of St. Joseph co., N Ind., on the great south bend of the St. Joseph River, in a farming and mint-growing region; inc. as a city 1865. , Ind., Holtz danced an Irish jig around exactly why he was leaving the job he often said he would never relinquish. When he wasn't suggesting he was resigning at season's end to keep from spitting on Knute Rockne's ghost by winning seven more games to break the all-time victory total at the school of the Notre Dame icon, Holtz was saying it was simply time to go. ``I just feel that the right thing to do is to leave the University of Notre Dame at this time, and please don't read anything else into that,'' said Holtz, causing everybody who knows the difference between Ara Parseghian and Gerry Faust to do just that. Holtz eventually moved closer to his true reason for resigning when he mentioned a conversation from last February. Not coincidentally, it involved Wadsworth. Said Holtz, ``Mike was in my office, and we were talking about a certain item, and I just said, `Well, maybe (you) need to find or start looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a football coach. You oughta give that some thought.' Then nothing else was said for a long time. We went to another subject.'' That resignation subject resurfaced three weeks ago, when Holtz told Notre Dame officials that ``you might need to start looking for a new coach.' They came back to me a week later to make sure, and I said, `Yeah, this is the right thing to do.' '' Yes, it is. See above, and consider that even Holtz says Notre Dame football needs a ``breath of fresh air.'' While Holtz trails only Rockne in Notre Dame victories, he also is second to none in Notre Dame defeats with 29. And, although Holtz won a national title at Notre Dame in 1988, he also has coached the Irish to some of their most brutal losses. They all were at Notre Dame Stadium Notre Dame Stadium is the home football stadium for the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. The stadium is located on the campus of the University of Notre Dame at Notre Dame, Indiana, just north of the city of South Bend, Indiana, USA. , too. Stanford ('90). Stanford (`92). Boston College (`93). Northwestern (`95). Air Force ('96). But even Notre Dame legends are imperfect. After all, Rockne lost to Carnegie Tech. Twice. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Lou Holtz called it quits as Notre Dame's football coach this week after nearly 11 seaons. Associated Press |
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