Posted on 03/04/2026 2:12:12 PM PST by PROCON
WASHINGTON — Lou Holtz, a legendary football coach who helped University of Notre Dame win the 1988 National Championship and coached at six colleges and universities, has died. He was 89.
The University of Notre Dame confirmed his death Wednesday in a news release, and the Holtz family issued a statement on X.
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The most likable speaker. We’ll all miss him.
Loved that guy.
RIP Lou.👍
Great coach. Took Arkansas and then Notre Dame to great heights. And he came from abject poverty. RIP Lou Holtz.
It has probably broken the hearts of real coaches to see what has happened in college sports...rip,good man.
Great man. RIP, Coach!
Yep, he was one of the great “old school” coaches,,,,,,, ‘Damn, few of them left’.
Legendary? Never heard of him. Still, RIP.
I remember when he was coach at NC State. Go Pack!
He’s going to h-e-double hockey sticks for bailing out on the University of Minnesota back in the mid-80’s.
C’mon, man. He won the ‘Ship in 1988.
This hurts my heart SO much, such a wonderful, beautiful soul, RIP to one of the best!
“WASHINGTON — Lou Holtz, a legendary football coach who helped University of Notre Dame win the 1988 National Championship and coached at six colleges and universities, has died. He was 89.” Saw him at the airport in Chicago talking on the pay phone.
“Saw him at the airport in Chicago talking on the pay phone.”
Well, if that won’t kill you, nothing will...?😁
One of best motivational speakers I ever heard. Great man IMO.
Awarded the Medal of Freedom by DJT too.
I recall just before a orange bowl game, one of his best Arkansas players violated a team rule. He suspended the player for the game. Before the suspension, the team was a big underdog, after it, the spread was huge. His team won going away.
RIP Lou
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
RIP, Lou.
Always admired him. A great man.
When I was younger - not a kid but a younger adult - I remember thinking “If people think I remind them of Lou Holtz when I’m his age, I done good”.
Of course, family, kids, life... I no longer measure myself against luminaries from my youth.
But, he was forever and still a good benchmark to measure against. Just a solid, moral, but hard charging man.
3 All Stars total were suspended. We beat Oklahoma 36 to 3 area.
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