The only coach to win more football games than Lou Holtz at Notre Dame was Knute Rockne. That's pretty heady company and on Thursday, the National Football Foundation announced that Holtz had been elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. He and the other members of the class of 2009 will be inducted in December of 2008 in New York City and enshrined in South Bend in the summer of 2009.

Holtz took five different schools to bowl games; no other coach in the history of college football has done that. In Holtz's career at Notre Dame he took over a badly damaged program and quickly elevated it back to national status. Tim Brown won the Hesiman Trophy in 1987 and the Irish won the national title in 1988.

Holtz's teams won championships of the Cotton Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl and Fiesta bowl in his tenure at ND. He also coached at William and Mary, NC State, Arkansas, and Minnesota in addition to the Irish.

Lou has been an analyst for the past several years for ESPN. He and his wife Beth, who is a cancer survivor are very active in raising funds for the Holtz Foundation and for cancer research. They have four children, three of whom are graduates of Notre Dame. Skip Holtz has followed his dad into coaching as Skip is now the head coach at East Carolina.