Your age is showing kiddo, my guess is you were still sitting at the kids table on Thanksgiving or in your high chair. No true Gopher Fan, who wasn’t in either of the aforementioned eating table situations would post something like this!!
I was at the spring game going into Holtz’s second season and the Dome had 25K+ and season tickets were at 50,000+, my old man had a pair himself and he didn’t spend his money, but loved football, he was a high school official for 30 years.
Holtz was building something and wasn’t remotely run out of town, as evidenced by his results in his first two seasons. He left before the bowl game in 1985, which shows he wasn’t “run out of town.”
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From the above article in The Strib regarding Holtz’s tenure (the following three paragraphs) -
Holtz got to work, getting a South Carolina quarterback named Rickey Foggie to come north to play.
In 1984, a team that had lost 18 of its past 19 went 4-7. The Gophers won Big Ten games over Indiana
, Wisconsin and Iowa.
And then, 1985: The Gophers started 2-0, then
hosted No. 2-ranked Oklahoma, losing just 13-7. The Gophers
then beat Purdue, Northwestern and Indiana, rising to No. 20 in the polls, before losing 23-19 to ninth-ranked Ohio State. The Gophers ended up 6-5 and got a bid to the Independence Bowl.
But by the time that game was played, Holtz was gone to Notre Dame. It was a difficult divorce, at least on this end.
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Holtz likely would have stayed here, if ND didn’t seek to hire him, as he said ND was the only job he would have left for (it was his dream job as a devout Catholic). The payment information didn’t come to light until Sweet Lou was long gone IIRC.
Learn to listen and listen to learn. There are many more long suffering Gopher Fans on here than you, you don’t have the totality of those experiences.
Respect their pain, it’s been well earned.
