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TexasTowelie

(112,325 posts) Sat Sep 5, 2020, 04:33 PM Sep 2020

Lou Holtz to be given Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump

Former South Carolina and Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz spoke at the Republican National Convention last month and now will receive a higher honor from President Donald Trump.

Trump announced in a press conference Friday he will give Holtz, who spent 1999-2004 in Columbia, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It is highest civilian honor the president can bestow.

“I’ve known him for a long time,” Trump said, referencing letters he received from football coaches on Holtz’s behalf. “We’ve analyses it very closely. We’ve looked at all of those recommendations. We’ve looked at Lou’s life and his career and what he’s done for charity. The football was obvious, he’s a great coach.

“Lou will be getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom. A date is being set. It won’t be in the too distant future.”

Read more: https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/university-of-south-carolina/usc-football/article245505865.html

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Lou Holtz to be given Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2020 OP

Sarah Palin and the My Pillow guy have to be next. NoMoreRepugs Sep 2020 #1

Hey! underpants Sep 2020 #3

Two Holtz stories. Yes he was a great coach. underpants Sep 2020 #2

I hope President Biden will refuse to devalue the Medal further after it was tarnished by Limbaugh Kyblue1 Sep 2020 #4

Don't forget what Lou said at RNC SCantiGOP Sep 2020 #5

What an egotistical asshat! LW1977 Sep 2020 #6

That he is. Wellstone ruled Sep 2020 #8

lou pamdb Sep 2020 #7

It just diminishes the award when it is given out to political supporters. The award will become walkingman Sep 2020 #9

Nauseating... dhill926 Sep 2020 #10

NoMoreRepugs

(9,449 posts)

1. Sarah Palin and the My Pillow guy have to be next.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Sep 5, 2020, 04:38 PM

Sep 2020

Only the BEST people.

underpants

(182,854 posts)

3. Hey!

Reply to NoMoreRepugs (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 5, 2020, 04:44 PM

Sep 2020

underpants

(182,854 posts)

2. Two Holtz stories. Yes he was a great coach.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Sep 5, 2020, 04:42 PM

Sep 2020

He’s said that if he’d gotten Randy Moss he could have won at least two more national championships. Moss ended up winning one (of their 3) championships at Marshall.

Lou was hired to coach William & Mary. Asked about his first impressions he said “Walking around campus I see a lot more Mary’s than William’s”. 1969-71

Jimmy Johnson was regarding by many as the heir apparent to Frank Broyles at Arkansas. Lou got the job 1977. Jimmy said screw it and went to Pitt the Ok. State then of course Dallas. I’ve understood that Jimmy thought he had the job and that he’d be a Razorback the rest of his career.

Kyblue1

(216 posts)

4. I hope President Biden will refuse to devalue the Medal further after it was tarnished by Limbaugh

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Sep 5, 2020, 04:47 PM

Sep 2020

I have been a Notre Dame fan all my life but Lou Holtz is an embarrassment to a fine institution. Father Hesburgh wouldn’t approve of this fool being a tool of the Orange fascist. Holtz had the nerve to question Biden’s Catholic faith, what a hypocrite.

SCantiGOP

(13,871 posts)

5. Don't forget what Lou said at RNC

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Sep 5, 2020, 04:58 PM

Sep 2020

He compared college athletes playing football this year to soldiers storming the beach at Normandy.............because they both knew there were risks involved.

Worst analogy in history. In one case, you can end the unspeakable horror of Nazi domination of millions of innocent people, and in the other.....you get to beat North Idaho State.

LW1977

(1,236 posts)

6. What an egotistical asshat!

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Sep 5, 2020, 05:15 PM

Sep 2020

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

8. That he is.

Reply to LW1977 (Reply #6)

Sat Sep 5, 2020, 05:24 PM

Sep 2020

Like the Guy says,when you were around Holtz,you needed a towel and ear plugs. What friggin joke of a coach. Every team he coached he came in with a loaded roster of talent.