Tyrone Willingham
Tyrone Willingham
Lionel Tyrone "Ty" Willinghamis a retired American football player and coach. He was the head coach at Stanford University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Washington, compiling a career college football record of 76–88–1. He served as a volunteer for the Stanford University women's golf team...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth30 December 1953
CityKinston, NC
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I don't coach their team. I have to coach our team. Our job is to prevent them from scoring. We have to do our job.
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I deal with it every day. The proliferation of recruiting has created different mindsets -- for all sports. It's a totally different makeup in many individuals than it was 20 years ago.
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I am keeping J.R. very close. I like a lot of things that he is doing. I am still wrestling with the decision of whether to activate him.
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But that is a mixed bag of blessings,
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I would probably venture to believe that it would be what Mississippi Valley State did some years ago with their offense (featuring quarterback Willie Totten and wide receiver Jerry Rice). I think some of it has come from the northwest portion of the country.
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I got my first real inkling of this (Monday) night. The long and short of it is our compliance office, in doing the things they do, checking and double checking and making sure that everything is right, brought this to our attention. We followed through (Tuesday) morning.
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I have been very, very pleased with the play that we have received from Isaiah,
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My first focus was to have a guy I felt very comfortable with as our leader of our football team. I've always said I don't care if he throws end over end or can run around mountains, as long as he can lead our football team to victories.
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There is a certain segment of our fans who believe that this is the most important rivalry that we have.
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You have to be great at reading body language. Hopefully I continue to get better at that so I can do a better job of knowing where their minds are when their mouths aren't saying anything.
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We're trying to get them to understand it's perfect practice that gives you good performance, ... practices have been up and down.
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It's not just this loss. This football team has suffered a lot of losses. At some point, we've got to break that trend. It's not just about losing games. It's about the mindset that accompanies that. We've got to break it.
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The Notre Dame episode, I won't touch that, ... I don't talk about it. It's a wonderful place and we did some good things there. I didn't do all I wanted to do.