Charlie Weis won with Willingham's players but can't win with his own.

• jordo212000

  

  sleeper wrote: Ty was fired because he's black.

  Willingham was fired because he was a last minute guy they settled on when O'Leary turned out to be a fraud. He wasn't their first choice, and he probably wasn't their 2nd choice either. Thus when he struggled in his 2nd and 3rd years, it just provided Notre Dame with the chance to go after one of the new, sexier hires.
• WebFire

  Mr Pat wrote:
  Good point, let's have a Maurice Claret is a criminal thread. Or a Tressel only the big one with Cooper's players, or even a the earth is round thread. People may still wanna hear about those gems. You're right, nobody required me to open the thread, and nobody is requiring me to not respond either. If it's a dumb topic that's been beaten to death, I will respond in kind. Just saying.

  The main difference is that Weis is a current topic. The ones you mentioned are not.
• Mr Pat

  Sadly they once again had to settle with their 3rd choice with Weis.
• Mr Pat

  Actually Webfire, the fire Tressel crowd (they came out this year) always brings up the Cooper argument. Nice try though.
• trep14

  jordo212000 wrote:

  sleeper wrote: Ty was fired because he's black.

  Willingham was fired because he was a last minute guy they settled on when O'Leary turned out to be a fraud. He wasn't their first choice, and he probably wasn't their 2nd choice either. Thus when he struggled in his 2nd and 3rd years, it just provided Notre Dame with the chance to go after one of the new, sexier hires.

  LOL at Charlie Weis being sexy. Thats probably the first time that word has ever been used in the same sentence as Charlie Weis.
• killer_ewok

  

  To fire a black coach one must first hire a black coach. Moving along.....
  
  Neither is a good coach. Both won with someone else's players. Weis was a better recruiter but couldn't get it done with his own guys. And just for good measure.....as bad of a coach as Weis is....he's undefeated vs. Willingham. And Ty isn't soley responsible for ruining ND. Never saw anybody say that to begin with. Davie, Weis and those responsible for making the hires did their part too.
• sjmvsfscs08

  sleeper wrote: Ty was fired because he's black.

  Should I take that to the bank?
  
  You are a fool.
• killer_ewok

  

  jordo212000 wrote:

  Hamp89 wrote: Willingham won with Davie's players, but couldn't win with his own. What's your point?

  He didn't have time haha. He was only there 3 yrs

  Yes, because giving him more time at Washington certainly worked out.
  
  Oh, about that......
• jordo212000

  

  killer_ewok wrote:

  jordo212000 wrote:

  Hamp89 wrote: Willingham won with Davie's players, but couldn't win with his own. What's your point?

  He didn't have time haha. He was only there 3 yrs

  Yes, because giving him more time at Washington certainly worked out.
  
  Oh, about that......

  Comparing Notre Dame and Washington as programs makes me laugh. Especially when you consider that Willingham had absolutely nothing to work with when he got there
• killer_ewok

  

  Well, considering he had 4 years there....surely he could've shown them some reason to keep him in that amount of time or better yet..."found something to work with." Funny, they've stunk and Sarkisian got there and they're already better than when Ty was there. And I'm not comparing the programs. My point was Ty had more than 3 years at UW and even then he apparently wasn't worth keeping around by their low standards. It's not like he would've had to have been great to keep the UW job. Above average would've likely kept him there. However, his results at UW were atrocious...by just about everyone's standards.
• jordo212000

  

  killer_ewok wrote: Well, considering he had 4 years there....surely he could've shown them some reason to keep him in that amount of time or better yet..."found something to work with." Funny, they've stunk and Sarkisian got there and they're already better than when Ty was there. And I'm not comparing the programs. My point was Ty had more than 3 years at UW and even then he apparently wasn't worth keeping around by their low standards. It's not like he would've had to have been great to keep the UW job. Above average would've likely kept him there. However, his results at UW were atrocious...by just about everyone's standards.

  Yeah don't get me wrong, I don't think Willingham was/is a great coach. I'm just saying that it is no picnic trying to win in Washington in recent years.
• athlete37

  

  I'm sure I could get more than a dozen committments if I coached at Washington... I believe Ty got half a dozen one year...
• jordo212000

  

  athlete37 wrote: I'm sure I could get more than a dozen committments if I coached at Washington... I believe Ty got half a dozen one year...

  Talk to the guy giving you inside information. He can surely get you a job somewhere
• athlete37

  

  jordo212000 wrote:

  athlete37 wrote: I'm sure I could get more than a dozen committments if I coached at Washington... I believe Ty got half a dozen one year...

  Talk to the guy giving you inside information. He can surely get you a job somewhere

  
  No thanks, I'd rather make big bucks as a lawyer with my ND degree...
• steel_curtain

  First of all, I'm surprised it took so long for this little tool to get on this site.
  
  Secondly, Willingham sucked, as does Charlie Weis. Tyrone had one good recruting class and that is it. The majority of the players that Weis won with actually were recruited by Bob Davies. Dumb shit Willinghma didn't even know about Brady Quinn until Chunedum N'Duwuke's dad told him about Quinn.
• unique_67

  Willingham was a very good fit at Stanford, and in hindsight he would have been wise to stay there. He was able to recruit solid student-athletes, and have teams that won enough games to satisfy the fans of Stanford, a school where the bar is not as high in terms of being an elite program as it is at ND.
  
  Weiss was an excellent OC in the NFL, and in hindsight he would have been best remaining in the NFL. He just has not been able to successfully make the transition from OC in the NFL to HC in college.
  
  Both are very good football coach's, but both bit off more than they could handle by taking the HC job at ND, and ND made a mistake in hiring each of these individuals as HC for Notre Dame.
• Society

  martyirish wrote:

  sleeper wrote: Ty was fired because he's black.

  you need to be punched in the mouth for saying a very untruthful and stupid statement like that.

  I actually heard this too.
• rock_knutne

  ^^^^Wow, I actually agree with you, imagine that.
  
  BTW, IMO, O'Leary would have had ND back on top, he just seemed perfect for the job.
• Sage

  

  Charlie Weis hasn't beaten anybody. ANYBODY.
• dwccrew

  

  jordo212000 wrote:
  Willingham was fired because he was a last minute guy they settled on when O'Leary turned out to be a fraud. He wasn't their first choice, and he probably wasn't their 2nd choice either. Thus when he struggled in his 2nd and 3rd years, it just provided Notre Dame with the chance to go after one of the new, sexier hires.

  So basically Weis is the Rich Rod of Notre Dame or is Rich Rod the Weis of Michigan?
  

  Mr Pat wrote: Actually Webfire, the fire Tressel crowd (they came out this year) always brings up the Cooper argument. Nice try though.

  I think the difference is that having a conversation about Weis and questioning his coaching ability has more merit than questioning Tressel's. Tressel has had as much or more success than 90% of the coaches at the D1 level.
• Mr Pat

  Question his coaching ability is fine, we've been doing it since 07. But comparing him to Willingham just so racism can be implied is stupid. Ty is not the coach of Notre Dame. When he was the coach, he was bad so he was fired. Weis is the current coach, he is bad and he will be fired. Move along, nothing to see here.
• dwccrew

  

  Mr Pat wrote: Question his coaching ability is fine, we've been doing it since 07. But comparing him to Willingham just so racism can be implied is stupid. Ty is not the coach of Notre Dame. When he was the coach, he was bad so he was fired. Weis is the current coach, he is bad and he will be fired. Move along, nothing to see here.

  This I agree with.
• Mr Pat

  I knew we'd find something we agreed on dwccrew haha.
• dwccrew

  

  Mr Pat wrote: I knew we'd find something we agreed on dwccrew haha.

  Didn't we agree on the Jimmy Clausen sucker punch thread too?
• Mr Pat

  Ya know, as soon as I typed it I remembered, but then I realized I didn't want to edit it so I left it as is. Touche in any case my good man!