RIP Coach Holtz

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-> Holtz became the first and so far only coach to lead six different teams to bowl games during a career in which he compiled a record of 249-132-7. He still ranks 10th all-time in career victories by a Football Bowl Subdivision coach, eighth all-time with 388 games coached. He has ties to Connecticut where he served as an assistant coach at UConn during the 1964 and ’65 seasons. Holtz’s son Skip would later become head coach of the Huskies from 1994-98. <-

 

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I was a fan of Notre Dame when Lou was their coach. Hard to believe that Notre Dame has not won a national championship in football since Lou was their head coach. RIP Lou and condolences to Skip and Lou’s family and friends. Lou was an entertaining analyst as well.

 

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I was a student at UConn ehen that staff picture was taken. Head coach Forzano, Holtz and Rutigliano all became NFL head coaches. They coached the first UConn win over Yale after years of losing. Those games at Yale Bowl were fun and so was the tailgating. Lou Holtz once said about the UConn campus “ they called it Store until they built a second one”. RIP.

 

[HCCForever]

I was a student at UConn ehen that staff picture was taken. Head coach Forzano, Holtz and Rutigliano all became NFL head coaches. They coached the first UConn win over Yale after years of losing. Those games at Yale Bowl were fun and so was the tailgating. Lou Holtz once said about the UConn campus “ they called it Store until they built a second one”. RIP.

UConn has had some great coaches early in their careers as you have mentioned plus Jimmy Valvano in hoop.