Thufferin' thuccotash! Lou Holtz is sliding into the College Football Hall of Fame. Fellow former coach, John Cooper, is also being inducted. Evidently when it comes to coaches the CFBHOF is like Paris Hilton, everyone gets in. Cooper never won a national championship, and Holtz won only one, thanks to Notre Dame's home referees.
T..t..theparated, at Birth?
Lou Holtz in the CFBHOF? Each time he left a program, the NCAA investigators were not far behind. His one National Championship was possible due to the incredible home cooking the Irish recieved in a home game against Miami. The blue and gold zebras took two touchdowns away from Miami, and still Notre Dame only won by one point. Then N.D. got to play way overrated WVU for the championship.
Here is Holtz's standard operating procedure. First, make sure you go to a team with good players who are on the verge of winning. Second, win some games, go to some bowls, make the top 25 rankings. Third, don't replace the former coach's good players. Get some marginally acceptable thugs instead. Lastly, when the NCAA comes sniffing around, take your tired #### act somewhere else fast.
All 13 players who are being inducted with Holtz were 1st team All-Americans at least. Guess the CFBHOF isn't so choosy with the coaches that it admits.
Is college football so competitive that National Championship winning coaches will put up with outright criminal behavior on a continuing basis? Hell yes! We could go on for days about today's society. Our eroding moral fiber. Our lack of parental discipline. Yada, yada, etc. The pressure on these coaches is so high to win---make the school money---that they accept many troubled, and, or borderline, players.
The coaches won't stop accepting troublemakers until we fans say, enough! But we want our school to win damn it. Don't give me that ####, but so-and-so does it the right way. BS! Name one team that's won a NC in the last twenty-five years that hasn't had some troubles off the field. Notre Dame, Penn State, everyone has had something going on. The only teams that can claim to be doing it the right way are the Service Academies. And when was the last time Army or Navy won a NC?
It is a Catch 22 situation for sure. Do we want a winner, no questions asked? The old don't ask, don't tell approach. Or, would we be satisfied with being a 500, at best, team most years---how you livin', Stanford--- ,and do it the right way?
Originally, this post was to bash LSU, and---thuglife4ever---quarterback,Ryan Perrilloux, but once I started I went in another direction. That direction is, to ask yourself, "How much #### am I willing to overlook, year after year, to have a winning team?"
