Lou Holtz passed away
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A famous man once said:
What you do for yourself dies with you. What you do for others goes on and lives forever
Coach Holtz was the living manifestation of this. He lived to better others and his greatest joy was seeing the success in others. For that he deserves everything Heaven can offer. He deserves to see his loving wife.
This world was better with him in it. And it is just a little darker without his presence here any longer.
Regrettably I only was able to meet him once. And I say that, because in just the short time I heard him speak and the reaction of the others in the room you could instantly tell he was one in a million.
His story was about before he was a coach. He was a door to door funeral plot salesmen.
The story goes about him saying just how amazing of a salesmen he was. In the time he was doing that, he sold his dog, his car, his tv, just about everything he owned. He just never sold a funeral plot. And he likened it to the Kenny Rogers song about the boy that keeps missing the ball he throws up in the air. And then realizes he must be a pitcher and not a hitter. Coach said it was then that he realized it wasnt about selling what someone else wanted. It was about selling what he had.
RIP Coach, thank you for everything.
What you do for yourself dies with you. What you do for others goes on and lives forever
Coach Holtz was the living manifestation of this. He lived to better others and his greatest joy was seeing the success in others. For that he deserves everything Heaven can offer. He deserves to see his loving wife.
This world was better with him in it. And it is just a little darker without his presence here any longer.
Regrettably I only was able to meet him once. And I say that, because in just the short time I heard him speak and the reaction of the others in the room you could instantly tell he was one in a million.
His story was about before he was a coach. He was a door to door funeral plot salesmen.
The story goes about him saying just how amazing of a salesmen he was. In the time he was doing that, he sold his dog, his car, his tv, just about everything he owned. He just never sold a funeral plot. And he likened it to the Kenny Rogers song about the boy that keeps missing the ball he throws up in the air. And then realizes he must be a pitcher and not a hitter. Coach said it was then that he realized it wasnt about selling what someone else wanted. It was about selling what he had.
RIP Coach, thank you for everything.
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He will always be one of the most important people in the history of CFB. Without a long thought process, I'd say he is as important to the history of CFB as Knute Rockne.
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Very fond memories of Holtz running the ball down Bama's throat in Tuscaloosa in 2004, I was there. 20-3 victory. Also beating the Buckeyes in back to back bowls. The Bucs were mad as hornets (again, I was there), it got Coach John Cooper fired.