Lou Holtz to run as a Republican

The press is not pleased.

I have always had a warm pace in my heart for Lou. Even when he faced Tennessee I could not hate him. He was just to nice, too classy to really dislike. I always liked to see and hear him speak. He always spoke well of others (even his competition) and tried to build up kids. A tough but loving parent. Tons still look at him as a father figure.

But now it is coming out he may run against a sitting Democrat as a Republican. How does the press depict him?

Ruthless, pathological, Senile, child molesting, angry, ornery, crazy, old, devil. A "natural opposition Republican"

Classy.

From the article....

Beneath his recently lovable exterior, Holtz is at heart a ruthless, pathologically competitive man who will stop at nothing to crush his opponents.

This is easy to forget given his reinvention as an ESPN talking head. With his lisp, nine-year-old-boy haircut, unhinged guffaw and all around cootishness, Holtz comes across these days more like your crazy but harmless uncle, or the beloved town "doctor” you pray your mom finally allows you to stop visiting before your first "turn and cough" hernia check. Even Lou’s famous fake pep talks in 2007 were exercises in easygoing senility given an unusually wide berth, and don’t remind viewers at all of the real Coach Lou, who was know for ceaseless rants, pulling players by their facemasks for eye-to-eye beratings, putting referees in headlocks and quickly leaving teams for the first decent gig that opened up (before his glorious decade in South Bend, Holtz spent three years or less at William & Mary, N.C. State and Minnesota and didn't make it all the way through his only season at the helm of the New York Jets, where he resigned with a 3-10 record with one game left in 1976). He was repeatedly accused of ignoring injured players, once publicly branded a player a "quitter" in a best-selling book, oversaw a highly publicized steroid scandal at Notre Dame, and left South Carolina saddled with three years probation. Before he was Dr. Lou or Uncle Lou, Holtz was an angry, ornery old devil.

Which makes him a natural opposition Republican. ":

If Lou thought people were ruthless and cruel on football coaches, just wait. The big time is coming.