Check this link out to find out had the UW fans really feel about the season thus far and Tyrone W. Funny stuff: http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=147&f=1361&t=3100777 :lol:
God Bless'em UW fans are good fans they deserved better. I wonder why I haven't heard Tirico or John Saunders defending Ty!!
I don't think any Irish fan can, in good faith, not feel a kinship with the Washington fans. Washington will now join the list with Stanford and ND of programs that will try to recover from the media machine that is 'the molder of men.' The once proud monster of the Pacific Northwest is a pathetic, limping program that isn't even a shell of its former self. I try hard to laugh at the jokes, and I am glad they have found a way to keep from thinking about what is going on, but I just can't. What is going on there borders on criminal.
UW <t>Corey,<br/> <br/> Like you, I feel for the Washington faithful. I hope they can find a way to get TW out of their University and then start the the painful task of rebuilding their football program back to respectaibility<br/> <br/> I can't believe how bad I wanted to believe everything he was saying when he was at ND. He really set the Irish back and it's taking a long time to get back and ND still has a long way to go. <br/> <br/> He just needs to go back to being a position coach somewhere.</t>
First, I like Ty. He's always seemed like a good man. But you have to look at his record at three major schools. I think we've just about seen the last of him as a major college coach.
While I really can sympathize with the UW fans, I really question their hiring of him in the first place. It continued the perception that he was a top college coach that had gotten a raw deal from ND. (To UW's credit they did not allow him to take that incompetent OC Dietrich with him.) Still the UW administration like Monk just loved looking at their football coach and basked in the warmth of knowing what champions they were for diversity. The fact is Ty is radioactive. If you touch him you're in a heap of trouble. The guardians in the media, ESPN especially will crucify anyone who dares deprive this individual of his rightful spot at the helm of a sinking football program.
When Davie was fired and Ty's name came up I was against hiring him, he just looked like a no fun football coach on the sideline without the resume' to make it good. I just couldn't believe he was in the mix. But after the O'Leary fiasco and he was hired anyway, I got behind him. He was our coach. Then the whole 2005 season starting out with an 8-0 run and beating FSU at FSU, I'm thinking holy smokes Black Moses!! But it was straight downhill from there, by his 3rd season it was obvious he was in way over his head and that he was an arrogant lazy recruiter. I was glad to see him go and of course the whole scene that followed was hard to swallow with all the criticisms of ND being a racist school from Tiriico and Saunders and their ilk, when you know it had nothing to do with that. I will be interested in the spin that Tirico and Saunders put on this when he is fired at UW. Terry
I do not find Ty to be a good man. Good men know personal responsibility. Good men make sacrifice. Good men are accountable for his actions and those of men in his charge. Ty Willingham doesn't know a thing about any of that. The one great red flag that bothered me, and I was happy about the hiring of Ty inititally, was that many Stanford fans were happy to see him go. Still, they are Stanford.. what the hell do they know anyway? Well, it turns out they knew a lot more than we care to admit. I think Washington drank the Kool-Aid. I think they bought into the hype that ND was a racist institution that simply threw poor Ty under the bus...