'A FRIGHTENING TIME.' DUH.

I’m sure Todd will be taking an assistant professor’s salary at his next job. So he doesn’t have to touch that filthy booster money.

October 25th in Seattle is going to be a fun one. Ty vs. Weis round two, each with full complements of their own recruits…

Maybe he can get a job at Vandy, they dont even have an athletic department.

If you can’t be an athlete, at least be an athletic supporter.

Boosters want Willingham fired?!?! After only 3 seasons?!?!

they must be racists.

Dr. K,

It’s either that or the sucking. My money’s on racism. You know how Washingtonians are.

Me thinks this is a “inverse double reverse” where the
Affirmative Action candidate is safe, but his boss gets fired instead….

“…he bemoans the creep of boosters into the sport.”

Welcome to the 1970’s and beyond Mr. Turner!

Husky Stadium is an absolute dump. The only thing good about it is the view of Lake Washington outside the stadium.

Turner’s returning to his “Southern roots”. Good luck finding a place in the South where they don’t care about winning and have no influence from boosters who want a return on their investment.

Now wait just a minute! Ty Willingham may have gotten fired? Pat Forde on ESPN.com told me that Notre Dame was wrong, wrong, wrong for firing him and he was a good coach? Have I been lied to?

Ya know, this is terrible, but Willingham should be happy he’s black. If he was white, he would have gone the way of Gerry Faust or that idiot who coached the Cowboys for two years (Dave Campo?).

#4: If you can’t be an athlete, at least be an athletic supporter.

You said “athletic supporter”! Heh-heh-heh-heh!

[/ 3rd grade humor]

I know the boosters run these programs, but it’s about damn time someone stuck it to the man.

1. - Gerry Faust got 5 seasons at Notre Dame.

So, if Ty was white he would have also received 5 seasons at Notre Dame?

Paging the author, Ross…

ty should have stayed at standford where football mediocrity kicks ass.

Yeah, now that Notre Dame has that ‘decided schematic advantage’ they are much better off. /sarcasm

That letter reminds me of Tom Cruise’s letter in Jerry McGuire. “Who’s with me!?” Crickets….Maybe Turner “loved black people!” a little too much.

#3-Turner was at Vandy before going to Washington.

Well, at least Washington’s clueless administrative douchbag had the courage of his convictions. ND’s version preferred to cave (grudgingly and petulantly, but cave nonetheless) and keep his job. Frankly, I’d have preferred if he’d had been shown the door right before Willingham.

Anyway, this undoubtedly means the Husky faithful will only have to suffer one more year of Mr. Six-Iron, barring some [NAME REDACTED] like resurrection.

How f’ing sad is it that I’m happy that somebody here is even talking about us????

We’re relevant again! (For a day.)

And it’s Emmert, not Martin, who fired Turner. You’ve got Michigan on the brain.

On behalf of the Wolfpack nation, let me say – Fuck Todd Turner.

Turner was pathetic from the day he stepped foot in Seattle. The hiring of Willingham has set the program back 5 years. Does anyone know the our beloved UDUB is the only school in top 20 wins of all time to hire bak to back fired coaches (Gilbertson and Tytanic).

Don’t worry about Turner; he will soon be gleeful to have left the “Northwest Freeze”, aka Seattle. I escaped just over a month ago and it’s nice to no longer feel like a character in a bad David Lynch film.

Regarding discrimination there, my African American boss had the best line, “At least when I lived in the South, I knew who the racists were.” Emerald City smiles; not always sincere.

?There will be a number of folks who will want to, I?m sure, integrate this somehow around coach Willingham."

How’s that for a Freudian slip/unfortunate phrase? If memory serves from his NCSU days, Turner is one of those “smartest guy in the room, in any room…” types.

MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA! MORA!

Well, I agree with the notion of Turner crying crocodile tears, but let’s hold off on that idea that football pays all bills at D-1 schools. Most of them LOSE money on football, to the extent that they have to keep hitting up boosters just to break even. Football brings in more revenue, and spends it all and then some.

Yes, I too am a sick junkie for it, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know what he’s talking about…

Not Mora.

Pinkel.

Book it.

Probably better not to use “Willingham” and “integrate” in the same sentence.

PAC 10 meet title IX.

1. -

The “ND coach gets five years” policy was Father Hesburgh’s, ND’s president from 1952-1987. Faust’s tenure was during Hesburgh’s presidency.

In 1988, Father Malloy became president. Bob Davie would have been fired after 1999 (his third year), but when the season ended, ND did not have an active AD. ND’s AD from 1994-99, Mike Wadsworth, had resigned, and Kevin White, who was hired from Arizona State, was still busy in Tempe and would begin his ND duties until April 2000. However, it was common knowledge among ND folks and the South Bend press that White was hired “to find Bob Davie’s successor” after the 200 season ended. Alas, Davie’s 2000 Irish squad finished 9-2 with an OT loss to then-#1 Nebraska, and White extended his contract 2 years – a move he regretted very quickly as ND was destroyed in the Fiesta Bowl and then started the 2001 season 0-3. After the third of those losses, Davie stated in the locker room (in full view of White) that he had no idea what was wrong and no idea how to fix it. That pretty much did it for Davie, who White fired after the season.

Hesburgh was at ND so long that folks equated his “ND coach always gets five years” policy to a long standing ND SOP. In truth, the policy retired with him.

Merry Christmas,

GR

remember when UW was the premier football school on the west coast? 1977-1992

Those were the fucking days eh boys

bring back Lambo.