Last night, no. This morning...maybe. Funny. Lou came up last night at work for a few minutes. The conversation didn't have anything to do with football. It was about him being at the Hot Stove Banquet--coincidently, the last time I saw him. A quick story on the old man. I remember having a work function one summer at the convention center and Holtz was there to speak to a group of Gamecock boosters the same evening. He arrived wearing Notre Dame gear. That wasn't my only interaction with ol' Lou. My opinion isn't based on some arbitrary notion although I can't deny having a predisposition towards him.. From a quick search it looks like that might be an impossible find. It doesn't match up with Holtz in another way as well. The first time I heard the adage was back in the late 70's, early 80's when there were off-season quarterback arguments about Don Jacobs and Walter Lewis. The thing is...I'm betting the saying was around when Cholly Mac was on the sidelines. He was a big two QB guy as I recall.
Was it Bear Bryant who first said "Three things can happen when you throw a forward pass and two of them are bad?
Probably Darrell Royal, Univ. of Texas,.. maybe Woody Hayes,.. or General Robert Neyland, Univ. of Tennessee.
Very certain it is in one of his books. Equally as certain I've got it. Where is a different question. I don't think it's original. I want to say it was a writer for a newspaper or sports journal. I've got a vague recollection of it being mentioned in one of the early MC classes--200 series or something like that.
