“As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.”

American college football coach

Lou Holtz is an American college football coach. He led programs at William & Mary, North Carolina State, Arkansas, Minnesota, Notre Dame, and South Carolina, with a career college head coaching record of 249 wins, 132 losses, and 7 ties. His career stretched from 1969 to 2004, with a brief stint as head coach of the New York Jets in 1976. He is best known for his long run in college football and for the steady record he built across several major programs.