Legendary college football coach, analyst enters hospice care: reports

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Lou Holtz, who rose to fame as a college football coach after a brief stop with the NFL’s New York Jets, has entered hospice care according to a new report.

“I have confirmed College Football Hall of Famer Lou Holtz is in hospice care,” Kyle Sutherland of HawgBeat.com reported Thursday on Twitter/X.

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Holtz’s 22 bowl game appearances rank eighth all-time in college football coaching history. He coached six different teams — Notre Dame, Arkansas, South Carolina, Minnesota, North Carolina State, and William & Mary — to bowl game appearances in his 33-year career as a head coach. Only one other coach, Dennis Erickson, has done so.

Holtz coached the New York Jets to a 3-10 record in 1976, resigning with one game left in the season. Otherwise he was a head coach in the college ranks from 1969-2004.

After retiring from the sidelines, Holtz worked as an analyst for ESPN from 2005-15. He also worked as an analyst for CBS Sports after retiring from Notre Dame in 1996, only to return after three years to coach the University of South Carolina for another six seasons.

In 2020, Holtz was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. More recently, Holtz served as the honorary captain ahead of a game between Arkansas and Notre Dame, which the Irish won. In November, he gave what was billed as his “final public speech” during an appearance at his eponymous charity golf tournament.

Holtz, 89, was a linebacker at Kent State before beginning his legendary coaching career as an assistant at Iowa in 1960. 

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