RIP Lou Holtz.
I loved this man.
I was a freshman at the University of Arkansas in 1977 when Holtz was hired as the new football coach.
In his first year we were great
#3 nationwide. We got a bid to the Orange Bowl.
I was in the marching band. We had a tight budget. Had to play half of our home games in Little Rock. That took most of our money. We only got to go to 1 non-home game. So we didn’t have the money to get to Miami Beach and weren’t going. Think if a big bowl game with no band. And the University had no money for us.
Holtz said “Hell no”, and paid for us to go out if the athletic budget and TV money.
He used to watch us practice.
That week in Miami was both incredibly hard work and so much fun! NY Eve on the beach ( the bowl was late night New Year’s night.) It was snowing in Fayetteville at the time
“There is never a wrong time to do the right thing.”
Gotta love Lou.