That's what people like you, who get your news from message boards, which get their news from other message boards, like to believe. Willingham did okay at Stanford, and I think he even had a winning record against Davie. He dragged ND into the mid-1980s by introducing the West Coast offense. He had an ass-backward recruiting philosophy, which I think he brought with him from Stanford, which was to focus narrowly on a small number of prospects. And he obviously did not understand that Notre Dame. unlike Stanford, took its rivalry games seriously.
Notre Dame canned him because they thought they could hire Urban Meyer. Period.
