Lou Holtz calls it quits

[underpants]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=755&e=1&u=/ap/20041122/ap_on_sp_co_ne/fbc_holtz_retirement


2 minutes ago

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina coach Lou Holtz walked away from coaching Monday, ending a 33-year career that was one of the most successful and colorful in college football history.

He also said Monday that if South Carolina goes to a bowl game, it would be best for the university if the new coach leads them there. That's a change from Saturday, when Holtz said he intended to coach the team in a bowl game after the Gamecocks lost 29-7 to Clemson.


"I don't know where I'm going to go. I don't know what I'm going to do. I have faith in the Lord to let him lead me. As long as my family's with me, everything else will be OK," Holtz said. "But I do feel confident leaving here that the football program is on a firm foundation."


He's eighth in career victories with 249. But what he became known for was reviving dormant programs. He took six schools — William & Mary, North Carolina State, Arkansas, Minnesota, Notre Dame and South Carolina — to bowl games by his second year. He won a national championship with the Fighting Irish in 1988.

[candy]

1. I'm not up on this kind of thing---why is he leaving? n/t

[underpants]

2. He is old and tired

It is a lot of hard work and he has been telling people around him that he has had enough. After the fight on Saturday (HUGE melee in the Clemson USC game) I don't blame him.

[candy]

3. Old and tired? Now THAT I can identify with!!! n/t

[tx_dem41]

4. What a sad way that his players honored him...

when they brawled with the Clemson players on Saturday. Hopefully, the administration at S. Carolina will make sure that the team goes to NO bowl game.