Retired American college football linebacker, coach, and television analyst Lou Holtz has entered hospice care at the age of 89. A source close to his family confirmed the news with ABC57 on January 29.Sharing a recent image of Holtz, Arkansas Razorbacks reporter Kyle Sutherland also announced the same via an X post on Thursday.“I have confirmed College Football Hall of Famer Lou Holtz is in hospice care. Holtz was the head coach at #Arkansas from 1977-83, where he compiled a 60-21-2 record and won 3 bowl games, including the famed upset over Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. #WPS,” Sutherland captioned.Lou Holtz has an estimated net worth of $12 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.Details about Holtz’s exact condition remain undisclosed at the time of writing.More about Lou Holtz’s career earningsLou Holtz, whose full name is Louis Leo Holtz, was born in Follansbee, West Virginia, in January 1937. He was raised in East Liverpool, Ohio, where he attended the local high school.Andrew and Anne Holtz’s son began his football career as a linebacker for Kent State University, where he was majoring in history. He also trained in the school’s Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and became a Field Artillery Officer in the U.S. Army Reserve upon graduation.Next, Lou Holtz attended the University of Iowa for a master’s degree and began coaching the football team as a graduate assistant in 1960, making his first big cheque and kickstarting what became a 33-year career.Subsequently, he earned a fortune as an assistant football coach at various universities across the country, including William & Mary (1961-1963), Connecticut (1964-1965), South Carolina (1966-1967), and Ohio State (1968).Lou Holtz first got noticed when the Buckeyes won the national championship. Later, he also earned the Southern Conference and Tangerine Bowl titles in 1969, after joining William & Mary as the head coach. Between 1972 and 1975, he also led the North Carolina State.For the next ten months, Lou Holtz served as the New York Jets head coach. However, he soon quit the NFL and returned to coaching college football.Holtz’s nationwide fame came when he led the Arkansas Razorbacks to six College Bowls during his six years as a head coach. The University of Minnesota bagged him for a year before Lou joined his most prominent role as Notre Dame head coach, a position he served for a decade.The year 1988 was a highlight of Lou Holtz’s coaching career as Notre Dame went 12-0, while winning the Fiesta Bowl and the National Championship. The team also reached the league finals for nine consecutive years.Before retiring in 2004 with a compiled record of 249-132-7, Holtz served as the South Carolina head coach for five years, during which he was accused of violating NCAA rules. However, he earned $6 million annually.Before that, Lou Holtz reportedly made $1 million per year as the Notre Dame head coach, as per his 5-year extension signed in 1991.Besides making millions, Holtz also won several accolades during his coaching career, including two Paul “Bear” Bryant Awards, two Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year, two Sporting News College Football COY, one ACC Coach of the Year Award, one SWC Coach of the Year, and one SEC Coach of the Year.Among his four Hall of Fame inductions is the most prestigious 2008 College Football Hall of Fame.Following his retirement from on-field action, Lou Holtz became a college football analyst for CBS before joining ESPN in 2004. Until April 2015, he worked closely with the network and regularly appeared on syndicated shows such as College Football Scoreboard, College Football Final, SportsCenter, and College Football Live."Elsewhere, Lou Holtz earned money from a November 2011 Discover Card commercial, as a member of the Augusta National Golf Club, and the Catholic Advisory Board of Ave Maria Mutual Funds.The winner of Trump’s 2020 Presidential Medal of Freedom also invested in real estate opportunities throughout his life. For instance, he purchased a 1.3-acre property in the private, gated community of Lake Nona Golf & Country Club in Orlando, Florida, in 1997.Unfortunately, it was destroyed by a lightning-induced fire in 2015, only to be reconstructed into an 11,000 square-foot home in 2017. Three years later, the property was put on the market for $4.5 million and was sold off for $4 million in 2021.Lou was preceded in death by his wife of sixty years, Beth Barcus Holtz, who died from cancer-related complications in February 2021. She was a businesswoman and philanthropist.Both of them are survived by their four children, Luanne (Terry) Altenbaumer, Skip (Jennifer) Holtz, Kevin (Kelly) Holtz, and Elizabeth (Michael) Messaglia, nine grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.