Quick – when was the last time you sat down, penned out a letter, put it in a stamped envelope, and dropped it in the mailbox?
It has to have been at least 10 years since I wrote a letter and I’m guessing it’d be closer to 20 years for me. However, former Notre Dame head coach Lou Holtz comes from a bit of a different era where letter-writing was much more the norm and he continued on those ways.
Holtz spoke last week at the “Win Without Losses” dinner in Birmingham, Ala. and shared a story about how he wrote Brian Kelly at last eight letters during Kelly’s time at Notre Dame, but never got a response.
Holtz doesn’t seem overly upset about it but certainly didn’t sound thrilled, either. Personally the best part of this to me was how Holtz says he’d respond to mail from some of his naysayers during his coaching days. I think next time I get a less-than-positive e-mail at work that I’m going to respond with something like that.
For whatever its worth my money is on that Kelly never saw any of those letters.
That or I’m giving the man too much credit.
