For those of you who are football fans, you know that Lou Holtz is a football coach who likes to win. Every place that he has coached, he has taken the football program and turned it around. He built Arkansas into one of the major football powers in the nation. He was turning the program around at Minnesota when he was offered the position at Notre Dame.

Notre Dame’s football program had been struggling for several years and Lou Holtz was hired to restore the “Fighting Irish” to their winning tradition. But, the turn-around was not immediate. They lost several games by only a few points and Lou Holtz was left feeling miserable and blue over the defeats.

One day, a reporter asked him, “Coach Holtz, how do you feel about all the problems your team is facing?”

Lou Holtz was quiet for a momen…