When President Trump joined Clay Travis on FOX Sports Radio to make his plea for a college football season, the POTUS highlighted Lou Holtz as a friend and “fantastic guy.”
Hours later, FOX News called on the 83-year old former college football coach and analyst for his insight as to whether the sport should play. And for the second time in as many months, Holtz compared college football to the 156,000 troops who stormed Normandy in 1944.
“We shut everything down for six months,” Holtz told Bill Hemmer of FOX News. “I’m going crazy if I’m being quarantined. Other people are tired of it. Let’s move on with our life. When they stormed Normandy, they knew there would be casualties and there would be risks.”
Comparing D-Day to college football seems out of touch, but Holtz is now years removed from being involved with the sport, and was just seven when troops stormed Normandy. Strangely, it’s an analogy Holtz keeps going back to, having also made the reference during a FOX News appearance in July.
“The way it is right now, they just don’t want to have sports and there’s no way in this world you can do anything in this world without a risk. People stormed Normandy. They knew there was going to be casualties, they knew there was going to be risk, but it was a way of life.”
The Hall-of-Famer last coached in 2004, at the University of South Carolina. Holtz joined ESPN as an analyst soon after, where he remained until April 2015.
Brandon Contes is a former reporter for BSM, now working for Awful Announcing. You can find him on Twitter @BrandonContes or reach him by email at Brandon.Contes@gmail.com.
