$1.6 million Holtz home destroyed by fire

Follansbee native Lou Holtz is looking for a new home. Fire last Sunday destroyed his 11,000 square feet $1.6 million Lake Nona home. Lake Nona a 7,000-acre community within the city limits of Orlando.

While he was born in Follansbee, Holtz grew up in East Liverpool, Ohio, where he attended high school before playing football at Kent State in Ohio.

He was a graduate assistant at Iowa, and an assistant coach at William & Mary (1961–1963), Connecticut (1964–1965), South Carolina (1966–1967) and Ohio State (1968) the year the Buckeyes won the national championship.

His coaching career was at William & Mary (1969–1971), North Carolina State  (1972–1975), Arkansas (1977–1983), Minnesota (1984–1985), Notre Dame (1986–1996) and South Carolina (1999–2004).

Holtz's 1988 Notre Dame team beat WVU in the Fiesta Bowl for the mythical national title.

Holtz is the only football coach to lead six colleges to bowl games.

He coached the New York Jets in the 1976 season.