Whitlock: Weis' new deal is a joke

[Fishbone]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story...whitlock/051101

[madyaks]

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Because only in the land of apple pie, baseball and hypocrisy would a major sports organization have the audacity to give a white football coach a record contract for winning five of his first seven games just a few months after prematurely firing a black coach who won his first eight.[/b][/quote]

[SLUBLUE]

QUOTE(Fishbone @ Nov 1 2005, 01:06 PM) Quoted post

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story...whitlock/051101
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good piece.

[Moon Man]

Gotta say, ND broke their own unwritten rules of letting a coach finish his contract before moving on to another coach, and they cut Ty off before he got a chance to develop his guys and now they give Weis a 10-year deal immediately coaching with Ty's talent? That's pretty shifty.

Moon

[madyaks]

Willingham got fired for stuff that had nothing to do with football.

[Turd Ferguson]

QUOTE(madyaks @ Nov 1 2005, 01:18 PM) Quoted post

Willingham got fired for stuff that had nothing to do with football.
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Care to elaborate?

[El Establishment 1]

Weis was also the OC for an NFL dynasty.

[ElviswasaBluesFan]

I wonder if NFL teams were sniffing around Ty Willingham after 7 or 8 games like they were Weis? That, more than anything, I bet caused the 10 year contract.

[dv6y]

Fish's headline (or ESPN's) is a bit off.

But yeah, it is a joke.

[Donuts_For_Koharski]

How is Ty doing at U-Dub?

[Lippa]

QUOTE(ElviswasaBluesFan @ Nov 1 2005, 02:20 PM) Quoted post

I wonder if NFL teams were sniffing around Ty Willingham after 7 or 8 games like they were Weis? That, more than anything, I bet caused the 10 year contract.
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There's also the Top 5 recruiting class that Weis is managing to put together, an area where Willingham struggled mightily.

[Moon Man]

QUOTE(Lippa @ Nov 1 2005, 01:27 PM) Quoted post

QUOTE(ElviswasaBluesFan @ Nov 1 2005, 02:20 PM) Quoted post

I wonder if NFL teams were sniffing around Ty Willingham after 7 or 8 games like they were Weis? That, more than anything, I bet caused the 10 year contract.
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There's also the Top 5 recruiting class that Weis is managing to put together, an area where Willingham struggled mightily.
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So Weis is making chicken salad out of the chicken shit Ty left behind?

Moon

[F the Cubs]

If Charlie sucks as bad as Ty did the next several years, you can bet ol' Charlie will be looking for another job (with a nice buy-out I might add).

Ty was great in his first year with Bob Davie's players, but he couldn't do sheet after that first season. If Charlie doesn't get it done in South Bend, he'll be gone too.

[F the Cubs]

QUOTE(Lippa @ Nov 1 2005, 02:27 PM) Quoted post

QUOTE(ElviswasaBluesFan @ Nov 1 2005, 02:20 PM) Quoted post

I wonder if NFL teams were sniffing around Ty Willingham after 7 or 8 games like they were Weis? That, more than anything, I bet caused the 10 year contract.
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There's also the Top 5 recruiting class that Weis is managing to put together, an area where Willingham struggled mightily.
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Yeppers............

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[Joker]

There was never NFL interest in Willingham like there is in Charlie. I'm no ND supporter but the guy was gonna have every team in need of a coach in the NFL sniffing around him this coming year. ND did what they had to do to keep the guy they wanted. And lets be honest, whether it was racially motivated or not they never wanted Willingham to begin with. In the long run he didn't get the job done no matter what his skin color happened to be and thats the bottom line here.