Tyrone Willingham
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| Tyrone Willingham | ||
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| Title | Head Coach | |
| College | Washington | |
| Sport | Football | |
| Team Record | 7-15 | |
| Born | December 30, 1953 | |
| Place of birth | Jacksonville, North Carolina | |
| Career Highlights | ||
| Overall | 72-67-1 | |
| Bowls | 1-5 | |
| Coaching Stats | ||
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| Awards | ||
| 2002 Coach of the Year | ||
| School as a player | ||
| 1975-77 | Michigan State | |
| Position | Quarterback | |
| Coaching positions | ||
| 1995-2001 2002-04 2005-Present |
Stanford Notre Dame Washington |
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Lionel Tyrone Willingham, or Ty Willingham (born December 30, 1953 in Kinston, North Carolina, USA), is the head football coach at the University of Washington. A football player and graduate of Michigan State University, Willingham held assistant coaching stints at his alma mater, as well as at Central Michigan University, North Carolina State University, Rice University, and Stanford University. When Stanford Coach Dennis Green was hired as the Minnesota Vikings head coach in 1992, Willingham followed him as running backs coach. In 1994 Willingham returned to become the head coach at Stanford. On December 31, 2001, he was hired as head coach at the University of Notre Dame. He is notable as one of only a few African American head coaches in major college football.
He got off to an auspicious beginning in 2002 when he became the only first-year coach in Notre Dame history to win 10 games. For his efforts he was named the ESPN/Home Depot College Coach of the Year, the Scripps College Coach of the Year, the Black Coaches Association Male Coach of the Year and the George Munger Award College Coach of the Year by the Maxwell Football Club.
Subsequently, Notre Dame finished 5-7 in 2003 and were beaten badly in four of those losses, getting shut out twice in one season for the first time since 1960. In 2004, Notre Dame posted a 6-5 record regular season, including a 41-16 loss to Purdue and ending with Willingham's third consecutive 31 point loss to the University of Southern California for his fifth blowout loss by 30 points or more in his three seasons. The following Monday, November 30, after an overall record in South Bend of 21–15, Notre Dame terminated Willingham as head coach despite the two years remaining on his contract. Defensive coordinator Kent Baer served as acting head coach for the Insight.com Bowl, a 38-21 loss to Oregon State University.
Shortly thereafter on December 13, 2004, Willingham was hired as the new head coach at the University of Washington. His first season at Washington ended with a 2-9 record; the team had returned 19 out of 22 starters from the previous season, in which they had gone 1-10. As luck would have it, Willingham found himself facing his former team on September 24, 2005. Notre Dame prevailed, 36-17.
His 2006 Washington team started October with a 4-1 record, with its most notable victory a stunning 29-19 upset over previously undefeated UCLA, before losing its next 6 games after starting quarterback Isaiah Stanback suffered a season ending foot injury in a loss to Oregon State in their sixth game. The Huskies ended the season at 5-7, defeating state rival Washington State University (WSU) by 3 points. This win held WSU from defeating the Huskies for three years in a row, something the team has been unable to do in the history of the nearly century-long rivalry. The Washington Husky fan-base is highly anticipating the debut of former All-American quarterback Jake Locker after Willingham decided to red-shirt him during the 2006 season, even after Stanback was lost to injury.[citation needed]
Willingham currently serves as a Vice-President on the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Board of Trustees.
Willingham is married and has three children with his wife, Kim.
[edit] Coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl Game | Bowl Opponent | Outcome | Rank# |
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| Stanford Cardinal (Pacific Ten Conference) (1995 — 2001) | ||||||||
| 1995 | Stanford | 7-4-1 | 5-4 | 4 | Liberty Bowl | East Carolina | L 19-13 | |
| 1996 | Stanford | 7-5 | 5-3 | 3 | Sun Bowl | Michigan State | W 38-0 | |
| 1997 | Stanford | 5-6 | 3-5 | 7 - T | ||||
| 1998 | Stanford | 3-8 | 2-6 | 8 - T | ||||
| 1999 | Stanford | 8-4 | 7-1 | 1 | Rose Bowl | Wisconsin | L 17-9 | 24 |
| 2000 | Stanford | 5-6 | 4-4 | 4 | ||||
| 2001 | Stanford | 9-3 | 6-2 | 2 - T | Seattle Bowl | Georgia Tech | L 21-14 | 17 |
| At Stanford: | 44-36-1 | 32-25 | ||||||
| Notre Dame Fighting Irish (Independent) (2002 — 2004) | ||||||||
| 2002 | Notre Dame | 10-3 | Gator Bowl | North Carolina State | L 28-6 | 17 | ||
| 2003 | Notre Dame | 5-7 | ||||||
| 2004 | Notre Dame | 6-5 | Insight Bowl | Oregon State | L 38-21 | |||
| At Notre Dame: | 21-15 | |||||||
| Washington Huskies (Pacific Ten Conference) (2005 — present) | ||||||||
| 2005 | Washington | 2-9 | 1-7 | 10 | ||||
| 2006 | Washington | 5-7 | 3-6 | 9 | ||||
| At Washington: | 7-16 | 4-13 | ||||||
| Career: | 72-67-1 | |||||||
| National Championship Conference Title | ||||||||
| †Indicates BCS bowl game. #Rankings from final Coaches Poll of the season. | ||||||||
Camp • Bliss • Cross • Brooke • Chamberlain • Yost • Fickert • Clemans • Lanagan • Presley • Brown • Wylie • Evans • Powell • Van Gent • Kerr • Warner • Thornhill • Shaughnessy • Schwartz • Taylor • Curtice • Ralston • Christiansen • Walsh • Dowhower • Wiggin • Elway • Green • Willingham • Teevens • Harris • Harbaugh
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