The recently-deceased Lou Holtz was head football coach at William and Mary the first year I was there in 1971. No, really. Go Tribe. To show you how different the mentality is of super-successful football coaches versus merely obsessive and driven coaches, you should know that Holtz arrived at W&M in 1969 and started talking about his goal to contend for the national championship in five years. (Spoiler alert: We did not win the national championship.) This, at a school where student athletes were expected to pass their classes like everyone else.
Utterly insane. He left after three years for NC State, then the New York Jets, where he was reunited with WR David Knight, who he had recruited to W&M out of Mount Vernon HS in Alexandria.
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