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Then there are his work habits. His days begin with daily Mass at 6 a.m and end with paperwork at midnight. He will leave no memo or chart or report unturned that could contribute to victory. On top of all that, Holtz is widely regarded as one of the game's finest technicians, along with Joe Paterno of Penn State and Bobby Bowden of Florida State. Says Bill Walsh, who was viewed as a tactical genius while coaching the San Francisco 49ers: "Lou has great command of game situations and the game itself...
...result, little Lou Holtz from East Liverpool, Ohio, looms as one of the biggest men on -- and well beyond -- the Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Ind. His 35-minute motivational video, Do Right with Lou Holtz of Notre Dame (price: $595), has sold briskly. The living, breathing version of Holtz is totally booked on the lecture circuit through 1990 at an estimated $10,000 per inspirational pop. Moreover, he has his own syndicated cable TV show and a national radio call-in program, and he's featured in magazine ads promoting the Holtz philosophy, paid for by Volkswagen. These...
...there's the rub. A coach is expected to win at Notre Dame. Win a lot -- while still putting academics first and observing the NCAA rules of conduct. "If you keep the rules," the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, then Notre Dame's president, told Holtz at his final pre-hiring interview, "I will give you five years. If you ever cut corners, you will be out of here by midnight." "We like to win," says the school's current president, the Rev. Edward A. ("Monk") Malloy, who as a Notre Dame undergraduate was a varsity basketball player. As a measure...
...Holtz, growing up scrawny along a crook in the Ohio River, where Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania converge and steel mills and potteries hunker cheek by sooty jowl, was not what you would call successful either. "Everybody felt so sorry for him," says Joe McNicol, a classmate at St. Aloysius Grammar School and a fellow altar boy. "He was always the last person picked for teams." When his uncle Lou Tychonievich started a football team at St. Al's, young Lou learned every position so as to improve his chances of seeing action. He also studied the playbook, such...
...Holtz avoided a lifetime sentence in the mills and went off to Kent State, where he played as a lightweight and little-noticed linebacker. After graduation, he learned his craft as a ubiquitous assistant coach in a succession of schools: Iowa, William and Mary, Connecticut. But it was after accepting a job at the University of South Carolina, only to watch helplessly as the position was temporarily eliminated, that Holtz began to lay out the rest of his life with some purpose. He made a list of 107 things he wished to accomplish, naturally including leading the Fighting Irish...