Lou Holtz's Son Skip Takes After Him as Football Coach

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00:00 So speaking of dynasties, you know, you're, you're, you, you created a dynasty.

00:07 Oh, no, no.

00:08 There's another Hulk.

00:09 That's, that's Skip in Birmingham.

00:11 So there, there, how about, how about being proud of your, your son?

00:16 You know, not only at East Carolina and South Florida at Louisiana Tech, but, but also with

00:20 the Stallions that, that, that, that team, you know, relative to the USFL.

00:26 And now he has a title of temporary special assistant at my alma mater, Northwestern.

00:30 What is that?

00:31 What is a temporary special assistant?

00:32 Well, I talked to him yesterday.

00:34 He doesn't have anything to do with the team on the field.

00:36 Oh, go ahead.

00:37 He's a head coach, had never been a head coach.

00:40 He's never a defense coordinator or major in school.

00:44 And Skip talked to him about recruiting, about organization practice, things along that line.

00:49 I think he could help the team if he was on the field and coached, because he is an excellent

00:53 coach.

00:54 I talked to him today, but he came into my office, said, "Dad, I want to be a coach."

01:00 I said, "We didn't send you to learn how to be a coach."

01:02 I said, "It's the universe of a company to take care of me."

01:07 I said, "Have you told your mom yet?"

01:08 He said, "No."

01:09 I said, "Well, make sure she's unarmed when you do, because she'll shoot you."

01:14 But he wanted to go into coaching.

01:16 So I wrote five different coaches.

01:18 One of them was Tom Osborne.

01:20 One of them was Bobby Bowden at Florida State, about a graduate assistant for him.

01:25 And Bobby Bowden hired him at Florida State, and they had great success there.

01:30 He just is great with people.

01:34 I've known him most of his life.

01:35 He's the most positive person I've ever been around.

01:37 He's always upbeat, et cetera, and gets along well with everybody.

01:42 I'm very proud of him, but I'm proud of also our other three children as well.

01:46 They all graduated from college and married and are happily married, and that's all you

01:51 can do.

01:52 I don't care what you accomplish in this world.

01:55 If you aren't successful as a husband and a father, you fail.

02:00 I always felt that that was the most important role I had, was to be a good father and a

02:05 good husband.

02:06 Well, of course, that's a very important world to live by.

02:10 He is magnanimous, intelligent, entrepreneurial, and he gets along with people.

02:14 Boy, I wonder where he got that from.

02:16 So when he hired a Connecticut for his first job, Lou Perkins said, "We got the best of

02:22 both worlds.

02:23 We got his father's football mind and his mother's personality."

02:26 And there's a lot of truth to that.

02:28 There you go.

02:29 When he calls you and you guys talk, is it advice?

02:32 Is it play calls?

02:34 Is it life?

02:35 Is it a mixture of everything?

02:37 Well, I have several coaches call me from time to time, and I always say the same things

02:43 I do to my son.

02:44 I'm never going to give you advice.

02:46 I'm going to give you an opinion.

02:49 Opinion says, "This is what I feel, and here's what I feel.

02:51 When I did it this way, we won.

02:53 When I did it that way, we lost."

02:54 That's my opinion.

02:55 Now, advice says, "You ought to do this."

02:58 I never give advice.

03:00 They got to live their own life.

03:02 They got to make their own choices, but I will give them all the best opinion I can

03:07 give them, an honest one.

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