Veteran ESPN college football analyst and commentator Lou Holtz is retiring at the end of the upcoming college football season.

The Hall of Fame head coach has been a fixture on the network for his segments with Mark May and Rece Davis, but the 77-year-old Holtz is ready to step aside, according to his comments to 247Sports.

“I’d like to practice my golf a little more. I’ve been everywhere except to bed. I’ve spoken to everybody except my wife. Somebody said, ‘Do you ever go anywhere where people don’t recognize you?’ I said home. I owe it to her to spend a little more time with her. I said that last year too.”

Holtz has flirted with retirement in the past but has stuck around to the delight of his fans and to the consternation of his critics, so could he pull a Brett Favre and change his retirement plans?

“I’d like to leave when people say, ‘Why are you leaving?’ not ‘When are you leaving?’” he said. “This is my fifth last year. They usually talk me into it. ESPN is a great organization to work for. We’ve been together nine years now. That’s unusual. They’re like my family. I love them. We enjoy it. There comes a time where you need to step aside and let the younger people do it.”

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