I don't know. I think it was elephants he couldn't deal with. Attack elephants, once he got to India. Does PSU have elephants?I don't know if the crusades benefited from an easy schedule; maybe Alexander the Great did as he got further east.
Even in sports that play a 5 or best of 7 series, teams with the best talent have lost more than they've won. You're really clueless when it comes to this stuff. Computers and formulas only go so far. There are many other factors outside of talent that impact games and their results. until you understand that, you'll continue to be clueless.
I didn't become a member here until after Willingham was let go, but I visited the board often before then and seem to recall that Willingham was under daily attack by posters here pretty much after his first year as HC. Remarkably, Willingham started his first season at ND 8-0 but then flamed out badly, finishing 13-15 over his next 2-1/2 seasons. There was frequent criticism about his recruiting efforts, which were undeniably bad. Your calling him an indifferent recruiter is overly generous. And I don't know if it is true or not--if it is on the internet it must be true, right?--but there were several posters who claimed that Willingham's golf handicap actually went down during the football season, suggesting he was fiddling while Rome was burning. In any case it became abundantly clear Willingham was not up to the job, and so he got sacked. So yes, he was bashed here, frequently and vociferously.How come you guys don't bash him to no end? They did fire him after three years and he got the hook pretty quick, purportedly because he was such an indifferent recruiter, that he represented some sort of existential threat and so he didn't get the usual five years ND prides itself on. Even though Weis came onto the scene and took those same players and went to back to back BCS bowls. But, before Weis himself fell out of favor, those same shitty recruiting classes could be leveraged to get Weis off the hook for his shocking 3-9 season, because we had to start like, Paul Duncan or something on the OL. And Weis in spite of his Super Bowl rings and ND-grad status, and his schematic advantage of course, ended up doing almost more damage than TW himself.
Anyway, TW didn't do to badly at Stanford. I guess that's why he got the ND job in the first place. And he got two jobs, from two different desperate programs, on the strength of his 'molder of men' reputation.
CFP Championship MVP | |
Will Howard (Ohio State) | 2/1 |
Riley Leonard (Notre Dame) | 5/1 |
Jeremiah Smith (Ohio State) | 5/1 |
Quinn Ewers (Texas) | 6/1 |
Drew Allar (Penn State) | 8/1 |
Tyler Warren (Penn State) | 16/1 |
Jeremiyah Love (Notre Dame) | 20/1 |
Quinshon Judkins (Ohio State) | 25/1 |
TreVeyon Henderson (Ohio State) | 25/1 |
Emeka Egbuka (Ohio State) | 28/1 |
Kaytron Allen (Penn State) | 33/1 |
Arch Manning (Texas) | 40/1 |
Matthew Golden (Texas) | 40/1 |
Gunnar Helm (Texas) | 50/1 |
Nick Singleton (Penn State) | 50/1 |
Tre Wisner (Texas) | 50/1 |
Jadarian Price (Notre Dame) | 66/1 |
Jaydon Blue (Texas) | 75/1 |
Jordan Faison (Notre Dame) | 125/1 |
Isaiah Bond (Texas) | 150/1 |
Beaux Collins (Notre Dame) | 250/1 |
That's what I think it is. He just wasn't clicking, one of the inherent downsides of the portal. Sometimes it just doesn't click. But now, in the playoff, you forget about all that, no homesickness, no self-pity or whatever it might be that might be kind of holding you back, whatever little hangups, you forget about all that stuff and just let it all hang out. It really is all hands on deck on time.That's big time praise. Love hearing it.
We'll need a similar effort Thursday.
He's no Jimmy Johnson, but he is moving up my naughty list. For now I have him at #9 right behind Fielding Yost, and before Mark May. Brian Kelly is #21.How come you guys don't bash him to no end? They did fire him after three years and he got the hook pretty quick, purportedly because he was such an indifferent recruiter, that he represented some sort of existential threat and so he didn't get the usual five years ND prides itself on. Even though Weis came onto the scene and took those same players and went to back to back BCS bowls. But, before Weis himself fell out of favor, those same shitty recruiting classes could be leveraged to get Weis off the hook for his shocking 3-9 season, because we had to start like, Paul Duncan or something on the OL. And Weis in spite of his Super Bowl rings and ND-grad status, and his schematic advantage of course, ended up doing almost more damage than TW himself.
Anyway, TW didn't do to badly at Stanford. I guess that's why he got the ND job in the first place. And he got two jobs, from two different desperate programs, on the strength of his 'molder of men' reputation.
That's big time praise. Love hearing it.IrishMike, I was totally in awe of Oben’s play against Georgia. I kept asking where the hell this Oben has been all season. This was the guy we thought we were getting when we recruited him out of the portal, and even better. Our coaches have said week after week that they still believed in him, and that it just takes some longer than others to make the adjustment to a new school, new coaches, new system, etc…. I viewed this as Coach speak and the reality that we had little choice. Was this an aberration or was the Georgia Tackle that bad or is this the Oben we can expect to see against Penn St?
Of course, who can forget "I love the smell of napalm in the morning":Teddy Roosevelt Spanish American War, Churchill in WWI, Patton WWII were more than happy to take on danger. Almost like it became more of thrill addiction than bravery.
How come you guys don't bash him to no end? They did fire him after three years and he got the hook pretty quick, purportedly because he was such an indifferent recruiter, that he represented some sort of existential threat and so he didn't get the usual five years ND prides itself on. Even though Weis came onto the scene and took those same players and went to back to back BCS bowls. But, before Weis himself fell out of favor, those same shitty recruiting classes could be leveraged to get Weis off the hook for his shocking 3-9 season, because we had to start like, Paul Duncan or something on the OL. And Weis in spite of his Super Bowl rings and ND-grad status, and his schematic advantage of course, ended up doing almost more damage than TW himself.Willingham was a rush hire by Kevin White--who I always thought was in over his head as AD--after the George O'Leary fiasco. Willingham flopped badly, and ND took a lot of flack from the national media for terminating him before his contract was up. Then he went to UW and compiled an 11-37 record, with a 6-29 conference record. He just wasn't a good head football coach, plain and simple.
Not trying argue with you but did you read the article? "How was your time at ND?" "Just another day in America." How's that for a dog whistle. And "was anyone against your hiring?" "Maybe, I don't know but probably, yes" Such BS. Never really bothered me when he let the media run with the narrative. But now has welcomed the warm, addictive, embrace of full on victimhood. Disappointing.I thought Ty's post-ND comments were rather tame in the grand scheme of fired coaches and racial undertones. He may not have corrected media talking heads, but to my knowledge Ty never said that ND was racist for firing him.
Also true.
He didn't but the media did. And he's saying it now.I thought Ty's post-ND comments were rather tame in the grand scheme of fired coaches and racial undertones. He may not have corrected media talking heads, but to my knowledge Ty never said that ND was racist for firing him.
Also true.