Lou Holtz decries push to scrap
college football, other sports: 'What
has happened to our way of life?'
Fox News,
by
Charles Creitz
Original Article
Posted By: JoElla Bee,
7/10/2020 7:56:15 PM
Hall of Fame college football coach Lou Holtz joined "The Ingraham Angle" Thursday to respond to the likelihood that the 2020 season will be severely curtailed due to the coronavirus pandemic -- if there is a season at all.(snip)
When you're in a leadership role, Laura, you have to look at things from both points of view. Look at it from the player's point of view, as well as from a coach's point of view," Holtz said. "The way it is right now, they just don't want to have sports and there's no way in this world you can do anything in this world without a risk.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/10/2020 9:12:26 PM (No. 474075)
I don't want any football players kneeling. I want them at home sitting on their bottoms on a couch. They were silent when the businesses were bankrupted. Now it is their turn to put on those masks and sit at home on their couches.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/10/2020 9:28:38 PM (No. 474087)
Hmmm - - I wonder what the black athletes - - who would normally earn millions of dollars - - now think about their homeys in BLM?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mushroom 7/10/2020 10:02:00 PM (No. 474100)
Oh Lordy,Sports fans are not going to like me, or what I have to say. Mr Holtz had a fine career teaching football. I betcha he made more money that any other professional at the schools he coached. (that is problem 1.) He had state of the art tools and equipment to guide these young men to play football for his school...regardless of the actual abilities of that student to learn. (prob#2).
Then there is the all time top of the list...FTA:"My son's [Skip Holtz] the head coach at Louisiana Tech," Holtz said. "They're supposed to play Baylor [and] Vanderbilt [this fall]. Those are money games, those are very, very important to them.
Now we know what is truly important in College football.
So here's the deal, Mr Holtz. You provided entertainment. No more no less. That some of your students actually learned something was incidental to them playing football for you.
Some of those (speaking collectively) had been pampered so much from High School and through your programs that they think THEY are the center of the universe and have taken upon themselves to act like it.
Someone forgot to let them know that there is a structure to "our way of life" and they fall into the 'optional' category. Sadly, some spit in the face of millions of fans. Normally a single offense would get ignored 48hrs into the newscycle, but it wasn't just a few, was it? What the American people and a huge block of the rest of the world saw was a bunch of overpaid entertainers cry about the way life is.
Bad news. We aren't taking lectures from pampered 20yr old. A large group of people decided they really didn't need your product and are not willing to pay to see it. Ask ESPN how things are going.
At the College level they wanted to be like the pros. So they followed the example. It wouldn't hurt my feelings to have cut every single one of the. the program be damned, this is an educational facility, not a minor league for football.
Think anyone dares ask for a new stadium right now? I'm paying a permanent tax for a stadium in a different county..because they wanted a new place. Well pay for it your self!
Mr Holtz, be thankful you left the business when you did. Because it's about to undergo a shake up.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
smcchk 7/10/2020 10:08:40 PM (No. 474104)
As the ND students used to chant “Lou, Lou, Lou!” I knew the schools, teachers and faculty would wimp out. Grocery store clerks and Amazon drivers, bus drivers and garbage men, and medical professionals have worked nonstop. But it is tooo risky for the teachers. And athletics will die on the vine too.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Faithfully 7/10/2020 10:09:13 PM (No. 474105)
What happened to our way of life? When the very best of our smart young white sons had to give way to females. When our smart young males had to give way to gays, to Africans and Asians. That is when.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
NeverForget 7/10/2020 10:11:10 PM (No. 474106)
Sports is so much more than #3 seems to understand.
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What happened ? Alpha males were replaced by soy boys, whiners and bed wetters.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Safari Man 7/11/2020 12:40:58 AM (No. 474180)
Football is so ghetto now I say shut it down forever.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SALady 7/11/2020 2:03:53 AM (No. 474214)
I haven't watched a down of the NFL in 3 years. Just a bunch of elitist racist thugs that hate this country but love making tons of our money playing a boys' game while disrespecting the flag and everything good it stand for.
Now with the elitist racist thug college football players making "demands" of their universities to play this fall, I am pretty sure I watched my last down of college football in the last National Championship game last January.
None of it is the same as it used to be any more. You used to go to a football game, sit there with people of every race, creed, color, and political belief, and just enjoy the game while rooting on your team. Hey, I guess we still have high school football, though sadly I will walk out the first time I see a kid kneel for the anthem, and I will never return again!!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 7/11/2020 2:51:42 AM (No. 474234)
Colleges are anti-American hate factories.
Just end the whole college football deal.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trigger2 7/11/2020 3:31:53 AM (No. 474256)
What has happened? Voters are voting for national suicide by becoming one with China, Russia, or even Venezuela. The demonrat party is really a Murder Inc. party in line with communism.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 7/11/2020 4:45:53 AM (No. 474268)
Football has become a political football.
Title IX ruined everything.
De-fund colleges and universities.
They are nothing but spoiled children's marxist playgrounds.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 7/11/2020 11:31:33 AM (No. 474676)
#6, not any more. The version that you remember is already gone.
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