Lou Holtz stated he understood why his feedback about Ohio Condition sooner than ultimate year’s sport at Notre Dame stricken Buckeyes schoolmaster Ryan Presen, however he reiterated his trust that the Preventing Irish are a stunning workforce regardless of their 17-14 loss.

Talking Tuesday to Dan Dakich at the Outkick display “D/on’t @ Me!” Holtz stated he referred to as Notre Dame schoolmaster Marcus Freeman to make an apology for in all probability hanging the Irish in a troublesome place. Holtz informed “The Pat McAfee Show” sooner than Saturday’s sport that Ohio Condition had no longer been bodily plethora to overcome premier fighters, mentioning the workforce’s consecutive losses to Michigan and its CFP defeats towards Georgia, Alabama and Clemson.

“I don’t feel bad about saying it because I believed it,” Holtz informed Dakich. “Notre Dame was a better football team. Three times, Ohio State had fourth-and-1, ran the ball and couldn’t make it. … If I was coaching, I would have said it. I would [have] went to our team and said, ‘I think you’re better. I think you’re more physical. I think you’re more talented.

“But if I say one thing and but I will be able to’t keep an eye on the end result of the sport, that’s unfair to Educator Freeman.”

An emotional Day cited Holtz comments in his on-field interview with NBC after the Buckeyes’ win and then again in his postgame news conference, saying that Holtz and others who questioned Ohio State’s toughness and physicality need to “put the movie on.”

“We at all times say, ‘Forget about the noise,’ however each and every at some time, later a pace any individual’s poking at you, you’ve were given to get up up for what you consider in,” Day said. “To peer one of the issues that had been stated, I am getting Ohio towards the sector, however we had to journey play games like that these days. We had to win like that, to prohibit that narrative that’s occurring, as it’s no longer true.”

Holtz, 86, said he understands why Day was unhappy with him.

“He doesn’t wish to discuss [losing to] Michigan, 0-2, he doesn’t wish to communicate concerning the fat video games arising towards Penn Condition and towards Michigan once more,” Holtz said. “He’s a superb schoolmaster. He’s accomplished an amazing activity. He’s a superb offensive thoughts. … Ohio Condition’s a excellent soccer workforce. I don’t assume they’re a superb soccer workforce. He can journey later me all he needs.”

Holtz added that he hopes Day “is going on and has a beautiful time,” while adding that Notre Dame’s mistakes in the final two minutes, including not forcing Ohio State to use all of its timeouts before the Buckeyes’ final possession, likely cost the Irish a win he thought they deserved. He also said he didn’t realize how much his comments would be amplified.

“Educator Freeman is at all times a category man,” Holtz said. “He’s very, very well mannered. He didn’t even put together a remark about it, however I sought after him to grasp that I felt wicked.”