More from The Q&A: Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz was always a character throughout his coaching career.
Even though he’s now on ESPN, that hasn’t changed.
In fact, now Holtz gets into character from time to time for his pep talks and Dr. Lou segments. In talking with him about his work with the AllState American Football Coaches Association’s Good Works Team, I had a chance to ask him a little about his television work.
Jenni Carlson: It looks like you’re having so much fun doing all the spots you’re involved in, but how has all of that been for you?
Lou Holtz: This is the third year that we’ve done this stuff, and I keep saying, “We don’t want to do this. We want to make football entertaining, but I don’t want to be an entertainer!” But … before we did the first show two or three years ago, they said to me 20 minutes before we go on the air, “If you were giving the pep talk to Stanford — they had gone 0-11 the year before and they’re opening up with UCLA — what would you say to them?” The first thing I said is, “I’d rather play USC than UCLA because it’s easier to spell.” And we went from there.
JC: It’s become so talked about.
LH: I have no help on that whatsoever. Nobody gives me any suggestions or writes anything. It’s whatever I feel. I try to do three things on it – I try to make it interesting, I try to make it funny, I also try to make sure there’s a message in there somewhere.
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