Posted on 10/27/2008 2:03:42 PM PDT by prolifefirst
The best it got for Washington's football program under Tyrone Williams was a five-win season in 2006.
SEATTLE -- Washington coach Tyrone Willingham said Monday he will step down at the end of the 2008 season.
The embattled Washington coach fell to 0-7 on Saturday after a 33-7 loss to Notre Dame. Willingham and athletics director Scott Woodward made the announcement at a news conference.
Willingham has been under fire for being unable to turn around the Washington program. He is 11-32 overall in his four seasons with the Huskies. Washington currently has a nine-game losing streak dating back to last season, tied with North Texas for the longest in the country.
Woodward . . . said Monday's announcement ends speculation of what is going to happen with Willingham and lets the team focus on the final five games.
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Word is that Ty successfully negotiated a $1,000,000 golden parachute.
I have not followed his coaching career closely. Any thoughts on why he was not successful at Washington or Notre Dame?
Washington had been a strong program for many years. I guess affirmative action doesn’t work so well when the other team isn’t playing too!
Now that we know what a 4th year of Ty Willingham looks like, should all the pundits apologize that bashed Notre Dame for giving him millions of dollars to leave after year 3?
Will they?
Not a good coach.
The drive by media never apologize or admit they were wrong, they just move on to the next victim.
Ty nearly ruined Notre Dame’s football program and now he’s wrecked UW.
Willingham is a preview of obama.
The assisstant at Seattle Seahawks will replace him I bet.....forgot his name, he use to play at U of Washington and head coach at Atlanta.
1) He became a head coach through afirmative action as he never was a coordinator, the normal penultimate job.
2) He got the Notre Dame job not because of talent but because the University thought that black athletes would be stupid enough to put their professional futures in the hands of a man just because his skin is black.
3) Terrible recruiter. Notre Dame has ONE offensive lineman among the seniors and 5th year players, which are the last 2 classes that Willingham tainted.
Sure Washington's program was strong ... strong on felons and flunkies and the worst of society. I didn't even let my son go to their summer camps because they pushed the "wrong way" to do college athletics. When Ty came, I sent him finally. I have taught at another college that "did it right" and you don't have to cater to rapists and law-breakers and flunkies to have a good football program (and they've won it all a few years ago). Washington was doing it all wrong. He turned that mentality around, but was not up to the job of recruiting. Strong on convictions, weak on success. In the long run ... what is best for the "student"-athlete? Ideally both ... hopefully they won't go back to their old ways when he goes
The guy that UCLA should have hired last year: Mike Leach at Texas Tech. Just MHO.
He doesn’t like to recruit. Rumor has it that all he likes to do is play golf. Notre Dame hired him because he was African-american, they fired him because he was a bad coach.
You have to have somebody protect your scrambling quarterbacks and fast halfbacks. Ty didn’t get the memo. Although Arnez Battle was an ok QB.
He does not put effort into recruiting.
I heard from some Golden Domers that he only went on two recruiting trips his last off season and got both kids. Most of the time he let assistants handle it.
As I recall, when George O’Leary got caught fudging on his resume, the very open minded Rev. Jesse Jackson said “Notre Dame went back, now it’s time to go black”
Look for a new era of outlaw football to commence at Montlake soon.
Whether one is talking about “mighty UW” playing ship’s crews, barracks teams, and high school teams back at the beginning, paying players in the 50s, the early adoption of steroids, using a no show jobs program, player “loans” from out of control boosters, cheating the rules on recruiting visits and physical evaluations, or refusing to kick armed robbers and drunken road menaces off of the team, THEY HAVE ONLY EVER BEEN GOOD WHEN CHEATING.
Some tradition. Hopefully the football gods will continue to punish them for their sins of seasons past.
Oh, puleeeeze, no argument he was / is a bad coach at both ND and UW ... but to claim he is not a qualified D1 coach, period, and got where he was only thru affirmation action is just plain false. His record at Stanford, the job before ND, was quite good (in fact I beleive it was the best coaching record at Stanford up to that time). Overall winning record, multiple bowl appearances, including 2000 Pac10 Championship and a Rose Bowl berth.
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