Remembering Legendary Head Coach Lou Holtz

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Nfl Draft, Ncaa Team, Notre Dame, Sports, Football, Big Ten

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🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In part one of today’s show the IB team pays tribute to the late Lou Holtz, who made a tremendous impact on the field, but even more of one off it.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to you our friends over at Fandle with you as always is Brian.
0:22.5	I'm Trev.
0:23.2	We have another really fun show coming your guys as way today.
0:27.0	We get to talk about the 2026 cornerback room, one that we are very, very high on, as you guys will get to hear throughout the show.
0:34.6	We're going to wrap everything up, you know, kind of talking about what some of the best
0:38.5	cornerbacks have been at Notre Dame really over the last 25, 26 years.
0:41.8	But, Brian, before we dive into all of that, obviously there was breaking news yesterday.
0:46.4	Legendary Notre Dame head coach Lou Holtz passed away, which obviously that's been a
0:50.5	major talking point throughout college football.
0:53.0	He's obviously coached at more programs than just Notre Dame. His impact has been felt nationwide for anybody that's followed the sport for a really long time. And that's how we're going to kick off today's show is really just kind of talk about, you know, what his legacy was on the field, what his legacy was off the field, who he was as a head coach, who he was as a man, and we really couldn't think of a better way to kick off today's show than talking
1:13.5	about Lou Holtz.
1:16.3	Yeah, Trev, I mean, it was, it was a sad day.
1:20.9	It was one we knew was going to happen.
1:22.8	And, you know, as a Christian, you always find, I always find these moments to be difficult in that the human side of me is sad.
1:39.7	Because, you know, we won't ever get to have coach bolts on the show.
1:42.9	We won't get to see him at games again. You know, I just, I love seeing him on the show we won't get to see him at games again you know
1:45.3	i just i love seeing him at games you don't get to see him do speeches anymore one of the you know
1:50.4	greatest sports motivational speakers of my lifetime then on the other side obviously you know as a
1:56.4	christian i i know what his future holds i i know what weights him as someone who was, you know,
2:04.2	also 89 years old and had failing health,
2:09.5	and you know that he's not going through that anymore.
2:12.6	And so there's always that up and down.
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