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I cannot say that I watch regular Washington football.....
but clearly something is wrong there.

Washington historically has always been at least
an above agerage program- with a few great years in there

They have been bad with Ty in there-
granted it takes a few years to develop his 'style'.....
but he's been there a few already

Tyrone has to resign as a head coach for U of Washington. Let U of Washington athletic find an interm coach now. Fans want to see U of Washington some winning games.

After being fired from Notre Dame, Willingham has faded away as a decent coach. That being said....I hope Notre Dame drills Washington. It will be the exclamation point for Willingham being fired from another school...

Coach Willingham is a stand up guy. While at Notre Dame, if he would have fired all of his assistant coaches, he would have remained head coach..He stood by his principal and conviction and didn't...I wish the guy only the best and he will land on his feet...and if he is relieved of his duties(like GoldenDoopBox), I want ND to beat the snot outta U-Dub, if not, I still was ND to beat the snot outta U-Dub...my kid is still at ND...yall understand its business not personal.

someone has to lose... it just so happens to be washington... When u put a coach in a bad situation... its not gonna get better when your program has always had hard time getting a good class of freshmen that might be able to turn things around

He's never been a good coach, at Stanford he had a few decent seasons when the PAC-10 sucked

Racism...Racism...Racism...! Oops...I forgot, he isn't at ND anymore!

Ty is a good coach, you can send Bear Bryant up to Wash and he wouldn't succeed either. The school just doesnt have the draw to recruits that it used to. Everyone wants to play in the SEC, Texas, California or Oklahoma these days and you can't blame them. I hope for Ty's sake that his tenure is over at Wash so that he can move on to a program that will actually give him something to work with. Coaches arent magicians, they can only do so much with what they get.

Take a look at the schedule. Not a single patsy. BYU and Oklahoma both turned out to be awesome this year.

But getting blown out by Oregon, and losing to Stanford are not good.

It's not going to end in a bowl this year, partially due to poor scheduling, and partially due to bad luck (Locker's injury, bad ref call on Locker vs. BYU) and partially due to poor performace.

The one thing I'd say is that building a team takes time. But if you're this far behind in year 3 or 4, it may never happen at all. How does one recruit when you have no success to sell?

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Originally posted 09:57 AM ET  09.30 by Wa2Sea

Coach Willingham is a stand up guy. While at Notre Dame, if he would have fired all of his assistant coaches, he would have remained head coach.

No, that was just a small part of the problem. Ty let ND recruiting fall off the map and was a terrible judge of the talent that was already on the team. Why isn't it racism now that Washington wants him gone for the same reason ND let him go?

Coach Willingham as Great a coach as he may be, he can't make plays on the field. If you don't have talent you can not expect to win! A great coach with a sub par athletic program will not attract great talent needed to win. When you have a GREAT coach at a notre dame, you can attract great talent. However a winning program does not insure a great coach his job! notre dame is prime example! notre dame lost fan support as well as recuits when they stabbed him in the back! If U Dub thinks they find a good quality coach just by opening the phone book they are just as retarded as notre dame. U Dub it takes time to build a WINNING PROGRAM!!! Oh by the way has notre dame won anything, or been rank in the top ten since Coach Willingham left? NOPE!

So much for the ND vs UW game. With locker out its as good as over. I would say ND has more to lose than UW though, losing to UW with a redshirt frosh making his first starts of his career would look very very bad. I respect Willingham for the way he runs his program with discipline...but the dogs are horrible, they had the recruits but willingham seems to chase them away (Hasty, Savannah). bye bye

Yeah he's done. Locker's injury should be the proverbial nail in the coffin.

Sure hope so. 0-4 in the 4th years. nuff said.

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Originally posted 12:38 PM ET  09.30 by Fujimo

Oh by the way has notre dame won anything, or been rank in the top ten since Coach Willingham left? NOPE!

I didn't realize that 9-3 with a Fiesta Bowl berth in Charlie's first season, and 10-3 with a Sugar Bowl berth in Charlie's second season qualifies as "nothing." Even though ND lost both bowl games, that's nothing new - they haven't won one since the mid-90s. Plus, just securing those berths brought large sums of cash to ND (at least $14MM for Fiesta and $4MM for Sugar). Notre Dame finished 2005 ranked #9 in the AP and began 2006 at #2, only to finish in the Top 20. I would say those are significant improvements over Ty's 3 years, during which ND spiraled out of the polls after losing 3 of the 4 remaining games in 2002, not to return until the 3rd game of Weis' tenure. Weis also brought in Top 10 recruiting classes almost every year, something Willingham couldn't manage. But then again, it was all racism, not underperformance.

I wonder if he will use the race card?

coach ty is probably better off as a cordinator or recruiter, im sure sc has a roster spot on special teams somwhere

QUOTE(#11):

Originally posted 12:38 PM ET  09.30 by Fujimo

notre dame lost fan support as well as recuits when they stabbed him in the back! If U Dub thinks they find a good quality coach just by opening the phone book they are just as retarded as notre dame. U Dub it takes time to build a WINNING PROGRAM!!! Oh by the way has notre dame won anything, or been rank in the top ten since Coach Willingham left? NOPE!

What an absolute buffoon. Lost recruits? Didn't Scout just rank Notre Dame's last class as #1, after Alabama lost so many due to poor academic standing? Hell...more than half the talent on Notre Dame's Team is underclassmen...with 14 of their 16 touchdowns coming from Sophomores or Freshman. What an idiot.

Fujimo, actually ND was ranked in the top 10 in both 05 and 06, FYI.

Willingham should do the admirable thing and step down. How many more boos can the team handle when these boos are focused at the coach? 0 and 4 does not sit well with team, fans, or the alumni and Washington still has to play Notre Dame, USC, and Arizona State.