Flash Back to 1985

Terry O'Keefe · Nov 26, 2008

Substitute Bill Cowher for Lou Holtz, and USC for Miami.

It was, make no mistake, a perfect place for Lou Holtz to be last Saturday. That place being Palm Springs, at an exquisite house in the shadow of Mt. San Jacinto, reclining on a lounge, flanked by freshly cut flowers and soothed by a gentle breeze moving through the giant palm trees. Oh yes, did we mention that the television set was tuned to the Miami-Notre Dame game?

Indeed, for it was this game, won by the Hurricanes 58-7 in a score rudely run up by Miami coach Jimmy Johnson, that made Palm Springs a better place to be than Miami. Three days earlier Holtz, the coach at Minnesota for the past two years, had been named to replace Gerry Faust as coach of the Whimpering Irish, who in Faust's five years had an un-Notre Dame-like 30-26-1 record. Now Holtz was in the desert with his family for a long-planned holiday, a merciful 2,200 miles from the Orange Bowl debacle.
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