This probably won’t surprise anyone, but Lou Holtz is a man of faith. That being the case, it only made sense that he and a Catholic university like Notre Dame worked so well together for so long. In fact, it was because Holtz prayed the Rosary on a regular basis that the Irish achieved great success in 1987 and 1988, or so he says in this interview:
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After Holtz’s first time praying the Rosary for 30 days, the Irish made it to the Cotton Bowl, the program’s first New Year’s Six bowl in seven years. The Irish suffered a 35-10 loss to Texas A&M in that game. Of course, the Irish won their most recent national championship the next year, and that followed another 30-day period of Holtz praying the Rosary.
Give whatever reasons you want for the Irish’s success during that two-year period, but as far as Holtz is concerned, his devotion to prayer was the primary thing that put his team over the top.
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