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“My Heart Is Broken”: Jerome Bettis Remembers Lou Holtz as a Supportive Head Coach

“Coach was so much more than a football coach to me. He was family,” Jerome Bettis wrote on X while mourning Lou Holtz, who passed away at 89. Bettis recalled that Holtz had promised his mother he would be cared for at the University of Notre Dame. “He looked her in the eye,” Bettis said, adding that the lessons went far beyond football.