Holtz (born 1937) was head football coach (HFC) at Notre Dame (ND) from 1986 to 1996 (W-L-T 64-9-1). His third team (1988) was 12-0, capturing ND's last football national championship to date by soundly defeating the hitherto 11-0 West Virginia Mountaineers 34-21 in the Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Arizona. The next year, 1989, ND went 11-1, as it would in 1993.

Holtz was also HFC at William and Mary (1969-1971); North Carolina State (1972-1975); Arkansas (1977-1983); Minnesota (1984-1985); and South Carolina (1999-2004), compiling an all-time W-L-T record of 249-132-7, including one solitary year (1976) in the NFL as head coach of the New York Jets. Holtz resigned with a 3-10 record with one game remaining; by his own admission Holtz often related in keynote speeches he was never properly committed to winning with the Jets.

Holtz was an assistant coach at South Carolina (SC) in 1966 & 1967, over a quarter-century before becoming HFC; easily his highlights as HFC at SC were the school's second and third ever bowl victories (2000 & 2001), both in the Outback against Ohio State. Incidentally, Holtz spent just one year (1968) as an assistant (defensive backs) to the legendary Woody Hayes in Ohio State's last football national championship in the 20th century.

An alum of East Liverpool (Ohio) High School, Holtz is just one of many notable football figures native to the Cleve-Burgh, a general area roughly bound by the Cleveland and Pittsburgh latitudes.

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