OT-Holtz up to his usual....
Slobberin' Lou Holtz recently spoke at a banquet in Fort Wayne, IN and he was asked about the current state of ND football.
Link here :
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20100423/BLOGS02/100429791
In his usual homerish way he predicted Brian Kelly will win a NC and possibly THIS YEAR! I can't wait to see him tear up when we kick his ass in South Bend this fall!
Lou Holtz has no credibility. I know he coached at ND, but try to be more objective. He said they would win a NC this year and they didn't even go to a bowl. ND will be lucky to win 6 games, even with their crappy schedule. They lose a lot on offense. Is Allen gone?
April 23rd, 2010 at 10:21 PM ^
Allen is back for another year.
I don't understand Holtz. Every year he picks ND to win the NC, and they haven't won a bowl game in 16 years. You'd think he would at least downgrade to ND winning ANY bowl game and then move on to winning the championship from there.
ADDITION: I'm curious to hear what irish has to say on this subject...
They won the Hawaii Bowl two years ago.
Ah correct! One bowl game in the last sixteen years. For some reason it won't let me edit the post to change it....
I think Brian has added a feature that takes away your ability to edit if your comment gets negged.
Is that true? interesting. In any case it wasn't neg'd when I tried to edit it so that couldn't be it
I believe you cannot edit after someone replies to your post.
My bad.
and how often?"
Along with many others, on another board I responded unsuspectingly to the seemingly straightforward question.
Only to discover the next morning that I had been pwned as the original post had been changed in the middle of the night to
"At which B10 campuses have you made love to another man, and how often?"
I just had to ((in slow motion))***clap.....clap....clap...clap..clap..clap***
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
That's not a real bowl game.
April 23rd, 2010 at 11:17 PM ^
A HC at ND isn't successful unless they win a national championship, and even then it is still up for debate. Lou wants Kelly to be successful and thinks he will be this year. I would be happy with a winning record right now
April 24th, 2010 at 11:34 AM ^
Times have changed and I really don't think this holds true anymore for a program like ND. I bet if Kelly went to a few BCS bowls and won some of them in the next 5 years, he would be considered successful. May be not a legend, but definitely successful.
Floyd, Allen, Hughes, Rudolph, Crist, Fleming, Te'o. With their schedule, although it pretty much should be a given every year for them, they should win 6-7 games this season minimum.
How will they be better? They lose Clausen, Tate, and 4 Olinemen. Unless Crist is the second coming of Christ, they will struggle mightily.
They also lose Weis.
I expect most ND players to put on weight this year.
"Unless Crist is the second coming of Christ, they will struggle mightily."
He plays for the Broncos now.
Aren't some (even a lot) UM fans thinking and posting that Michigan's defense will be better this year after losing Graham, Warren, and Brown?
Interesting.
Not real sure why you are being negged for this comment. It is in fact a legit point
I'm guessing that people are trying to stay positive, rather than giving up on OUR TEAM before the season has even started. The team, man. The team!
April 24th, 2010 at 12:57 PM ^
Predicting your defense is going to improve and predicting a NC aren't even close to the same level. Being optimistic is different from being delusional...
He's one jockstrap short of a six pack. (of jockstraps)
That's what Millen said....kinda.
....is the h
But seriously, their defense was/is the problem and I think it will be better this year. The offense might take a step back but I see them beating Stanford (iffy), BC, Western Mich., Navy, Tulsa, Army, and Utah (iffy).
I disagree. I see Tulsa slicing up that defense. But I agree with the rest as W's.
Holtz does have zero credibility. He really chapped my ass when he gave his imaginary pep talk to Penn State in 2007 telling them they would beat Michigan.
But I made my sign (because we knew we'd win based on his prediction alone), saying:
A
Bad
Choice
of words, Holtz.
We also snuck a marker into the stadium and my inebriated roommate wrote "JoePa eats butthole" on the back of the sign. We got raucous laughter from the rows behind us.
Any of you guys see that by chance?
April 23rd, 2010 at 10:53 PM ^
"JoePa eats butthole" isn't very witty, surely you could have come up with something more clever and tasteful.
April 24th, 2010 at 12:25 AM ^
If "tasteful" was an intentional pun, well played sir.
April 24th, 2010 at 10:53 AM ^
We weren't going for witty; we were going for funny. The student section seemed to enjoy it.
When Lou Holtz speaks in public, do they give the first few rows a clear plastic tarp to hide under like at a Gallagher show?
Y'all ready to smash some fruit?!?!?
I'm guessing the majority of the people at that Chamber of Commerce meeting came to see Lou speak, and are ND fans. So being a little rah-rah about them there is not as bad as doing it in front of a National TV audience. And having hope for a new coach is not unheard of.
I mean, I'd guess we'd get a lot of hits on this site if we did a search on "Rich Rod" and "winning National Championship".
Now, saying THIS YEAR is kind of a strain of faith. I mean, who knows...with their schedule they could go undefeated then lose by 100 in the Bowl. Hehe...nnnaaaaahhhhh.
Lou Holtz= Daffy Duck
He also predicted on that "ask doctor lou" that Michigan would win big under RR. Let's hope that is the case, but predicting they are gonna win a NC with kelly so soon is laughable.
Its gonna be a real suck-fest for ol'ND and ol'rocky top Tennyseeee this year. Good luck fellas
it blows when your ranked 118 and 119.
thoughts? You always seem like a level headed domer.
April 23rd, 2010 at 11:51 PM ^
19-6 over the last 2 coaches' first years.......
It all goes down hill after this season so why not. lol =)
April 23rd, 2010 at 10:01 PM ^
...still believes Clausen will win the Heisman this year.
April 23rd, 2010 at 10:04 PM ^
Speaking of ludicrous claims, I remember an article written in the 2008 Wolverine football preview giving some reasons on why Michigan might win the Big Ten. Haha, oh man...But yeah, I'm sure this will be a similar situation in South Bend this year.
April 23rd, 2010 at 10:04 PM ^
Holtz has become a parody of himself as he has gotten older, but he is still the last decent coach ND had. I wish he would quit before he embarasses himself, but ESPN still wants to pay him. It would be really difficult to give up those paychecks and being on national TV every week.
April 23rd, 2010 at 10:57 PM ^
We ridicule Holtz for being such a ND homer, but I'd really like if we had a ridiculous Michigan homer in the MSM. Your typical idiotboy doesn't get the in-depth expert analysis from us internet-warriors, and sometimes Lou Holtz is the only opinion they hear. Wouldn't it be great to have someone like that fellate Michigan over and over on ESPN?
At least he's entertaining, too.
April 24th, 2010 at 12:00 AM ^
he pisses me off, i dont see desmond howard going around doing this or any other legit ncca football analyst