Pat Fallon: “Yesterday, a legend was called home. Lou Holtz passed away surrounded by his loving family, and I know coach, if he had…”

“Yesterday, a legend was called home. Lou Holtz passed away surrounded by his loving family, and I know coach, if he had to choose, wouldn't have it any other way. Coach Lou Holtz will forever be a national treasure. He is a Hall of Fame coach, and he earned it. He was born in modest means on January 6, 1937. His parents, Andrew and Anne Marie, raised him near a small mill town in West Virginia, right on the border in East Liverpool, Ohio. Coach went on to play linebacker--I think he probably was 135 pounds soaking wet, but he was a linebacker--at Kent State. He used to joke when he would give some of his great speeches that he graduated third in his class. He was third from the bottom, not the top. When he was 34 years old, he was having a tough time in life, so he wrote down 107, and then it became 108 life goals. There were some very lofty ones. One goal I believe was to appear on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.' He wanted to be a head coach. He wanted to win a national championship and many other goals. If he didn't achieve all of them, he achieved nearly all of them.”