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...Declining school enrollments helped [Proposition 2 1/2] to work in the '80s. That has turned around 180 degrees," says Buck Holtz, senior research associate at the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a research and lobbying organization which opposes...
Well, Notre Dame Coach Lou Holtz, for one. Even if, this year, the wire services actually named Miami, not Southern Mississippi, as the best team in college football. Holtz's "Fighting Irish," who were ranked first until a November loss to Miami, had just flogged the new champ, Colorado, in the Orange Bowl. Yet four polls gave top ranking to Miami, which had also lost one game. "You can justify why Miami won it," Holtz said. "What you can't justify is why we didn't." He pointed to the unique toughness of his school's schedule: Notre Dame played...
...Holtz can take solace in the notion that the college football season is enriched, not impoverished, by ending with an imaginary championship played in the mind of every partisan fan. Or he can follow the Southern Miss theory to its happy conclusion. Let's see: Southern Miss was beaten by Southwest Louisiana, which was defeated by Tulane, which was defeated by Virginia Tech, which was beaten by Virginia, which, in its first game of the season, was defeated by . . . Notre Dame...
PROFILE: Notre Dame football's Lou Holtz...
...cathedral of college football, the names of legendary head coaches -- Rockne, Leahy and Parseghian -- still echo. But get ready to add a new name to the list: Holtz...