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Summary: Winning at all costs
Review: First, let me state that this book does attack Norte Dame and Lou Holtz, but is a great read into a two faced school and man. Hotlz is a master of winning with the other guys players, but seems to always hit the high point of his stay at a school in his third year, unlike other coaches. He has left every school he has been at in NCAA trouble. Remember this before writting this book off as just an another attack on Holtz, what is happening now at South Carolina is along the same line as the book states what happened at all the other schools Holtz has been at.
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Summary: Hatchet Job on ND
Review: If I could give a lesser rating I would.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: Just because Lou Holtz has stepped on a few toes doesn't make him as bad a person as the author leads us to believe. This book is nothing more than an attempt to make one of the most successful coaches in NCAA history look evil. Terrible book and a waste of money.
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Summary: A Great Behind the Scenes Look At What Happens In South Bend
Review: This was a great book by Don aeger and Douglas Looney on what actually happens in South Bend, Indiana, the home of the Fighting Irish. In the locker room, at the practices...they explain everything that happened during the coaching tenure of Lou Holtz with quotes from his former players and other colleagues. It was wonderfully written and great to read.
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Summary: Hatchet Job on ND
Review: Very well prepared book. Being interviewed with numerous players and assistants, who have worked with Lou Holtz, the authors earn all the applause for their naive work for this book. Actually, all the things included in this book, are the realities of the college football in any level. Steroids, ignoring the injured players, high coach blood pressures, off-field aggression of the players etc. This is not just the Notre Dame, this is everybody in that level. But, Notre Dame is in another league, on their own. They are not supposed be like the others, they must be different. If they act like the "common football players", or if a "common coach" coaches there, then this kinda books will follow one another. An important book for anybody who is interested in college football, how it goes and how it works. I did not give 5 stars, because I felt like the authors have something personal against Lou Holtz, and, I must admit, they used it very well in this book.
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Summary: Lies and more lies
Review: Yes Coach Holtz is not perfect neither is Notre Dame but this book goes out of its way to drag up dirt on Holtz, yes I am sure his days at Arkansas were dirty and yes he places more emphasis on winning football than academics but the author assumes that Notre Dame is pure and then is shocked to find out its not so. This belongs more in a tabloid like the Narional Enquirer.
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