Blau

April 12th, 2015 at 10:34 PM ^

 

BTW - I actually really like Holtz and think he's a great ambassador for CFB but I always saw him more as a funny, iconic character rather than a serious analyst. How his hair is still blonde at age 106 is beyond me!?

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getsome

April 13th, 2015 at 8:24 AM ^

wait, but what about catholics vs convicts and all that?   i thought holtz and joe pa coached like a century combined without even toeing the line, forget about cheating.

i guess at least a handful of viewers mustve enjoyed his schtick but good riddance.  

amazing espn failed to take any action even after he suffered strokes #3 or 4  - sadly the guys been incomprehensible for years but now they mutually part ways?  

i gotta respect his effort though - holtz kept grinding and kept collecting checks despite the single worst speech impediment / lisp in the history of tv broadcasting

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I Like Burgers

April 13th, 2015 at 9:25 AM ^

People like Holtz dont retire because he gets paid a ton a money to work a handful of days a year.  Why walk away from easy money like that?  And the reason ESPN just doesn't get rid of him is because they all sign 3, 4, 5 year long deals to be analysts and you can't just fire someone in the middle of a contract for no good reason without having to pay them the entire contract.  Its just bad business.

So in this instance, his contract is up, ESPN wants to rethink the Saturday show Rece hosted, wants to move on from Holtz, and Holtz, being old as fuck, rich, and not wanting to start over decides to move on too.

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Yeoman

April 13th, 2015 at 11:06 AM ^

Craig James, Ron Franklin, Jay Mariotti, Rob Dibble, Jason Whitlock...

Holtz didn't get fired because he was the right kind of awful, creating buzz without backlash. Awful's not so bad from the network's perspective; what they can't have in that spot is bland...which it's kind of degenerated into, now that the shtick's gotten old (Corso's probably getting to that point too and I won't be surprised if he also doesn't get renewed the next time his contract is up).

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Perkis-Size Me

April 12th, 2015 at 10:45 PM ^

Good. That senile ass hat should've been out years ago. He's so blinded by his homerism he probably thinks that ND could put up 100 points on the '85 Bears, while simultaneously pitching a shutout against the '07 Pats.



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xtramelanin

April 13th, 2015 at 5:26 AM ^

yeah, that's probably true too.   those were two perfect clips to show it.   guy was a great coach and motivator in his day, won a lot of football games, and you could do a lot worse than some of his corny advice.  his schtick was quite successful for what, a decade on TV?   good luck to him.  next guy is on the clock....

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