Lou Holtz thinks college football should be played in 2020 because of…World War II?
While smaller conferences have canceled football for 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, the first few dominos have started to fall in the FBS. Following the lead of the MAC and Mountain West, the Big Ten and Pac-12 announced that they will not play football in the fall in 2020. Former Notre Dame head coach Lou Holtz, a frequent FOX contributor, went off on a tangent after America’s most beloved amateur sport is now facing massive cancellations across the country.
Without a shred of irony, Holtz went on Fox News and claimed that the college football season should go on as planned in all major conferences, citing a need to “get back to our lives” before comparing the situation to World War II, as the D-Day Invasion at Normandy still transpired despite knowing the casualties inherent in this plan.
“I think they should play, but that’s my thing … if you have an asthma problem or you’re a diabetic, absolutely, don’t play, but the rest of us? Let’s go play,” Holtz said. “We shut everything down for six months. 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 casualties and there would be risks.
“Two percent of the people who go to the emergency room go for COVID-19. It’s going down. Everybody gets old. You’re going to die.”
A former college football coach just said that even though there will be casualties, unpaid athletes should risk their health for our collective entertainment in the middle of a pandemic. Even for 2020, this is odd.
Lou Holtz thinks playing a football game and fighting at the Battle of the Bulge are the same.
Holtz echoed these same sentiments a month ago on Fox News, once again invoking Normandy just minutes after finishing a diatribe about ho he opposes Notre Dame getting rid of their “Fighting Irish” name.
While Holtz has taken six different college programs to bowl games and helped re-establish Notre Dame as a national power, all the while carving out a solid career as an analyst form himself, he has since rebranded as a rent-a-quote commentator for those pushing a pro-college football agenda during the middle of the pandemic. These opinions can be safely discarded as nonsense.
In case it wasn’t abundantly clear, crossing the Atlantic Ocean and fighting the Nazis and playing a college football game are nowhere near similar situations. Holtz’s old man yelling at a cloud rant isn’t funny for how absurd it is as much as it is said that one of the best coaches of all-time views players in this day and age. Hopefully, his opinions aren’t shared by any other coaches.