Ty Willingham beat more ranked teams on average then Brian Kelly including the SEC.

[Bodizephax]

Ty Willingham was a terrible coach but even he did better against ranked teams than Brian Kelly.

These are the ranked teams Ty beat in his short stay at ND.

#21 Maryland.
#7 Michigan.
#11 Florida State.
#18 Air Force.
#8 Michigan.
#3 Tennesse (Late in his last season).

Brian Kelly turns to Jelly against higher ranked teams.

Kelly needs to go ! Some people on another site are saying John Harbaugh would be a great and realistic hire.

 

[sjb75]

Larry Coker and Gene Chizik won national titles.

 

[NDHHI]

Why would Harbaugh leave his alma mater where he is just now getting all his recruits through the program to ND and start over? Never going to happen. We are a 8 win program over the last 29 years...I am finally giving up and accepting this...makes Sept-Dec much less stressful for me and everyone around me.

 

[twalsh]

Ty Willingham was a terrible coach but even he did better against ranked teams than Brian Kelly.

These are the ranked teams Ty beat in his short stay at ND.

#21 Maryland.
#7 Michigan.
#11 Florida State.
#18 Air Force.
#8 Michigan.
#3 Tennesse (Late in his last season).

Brian Kelly turns to Jelly against higher ranked teams.

Kelly needs to go ! Some people on another site are saying John Harbaugh would be a great and realistic hire.

Ty Willingham all but buried this program.

 

[irishalice]

Why would Harbaugh leave his alma mater where he is just now getting all his recruits through the program to ND and start over? Never going to happen. We are a 8 win program over the last 29 years...I am finally giving up and accepting this...makes Sept-Dec much less stressful for me and everyone around me.

Jim Harbaugh is the Michigan coach, John is his brother and coaches the Baltimore Ravens. Really don't think John would be interested though his daughter a volleyball recruit is looking at ND. At least that's the last I've read about his daughter.

 

[Syd4ND]

Why would Harbaugh leave his alma mater where he is just now getting all his recruits through the program to ND and start over? Never going to happen. We are a 8 win program over the last 29 years...I am finally giving up and accepting this...makes Sept-Dec much less stressful for me and everyone around me.

John not Jim

 

[ivan brunetti]

John already makes $7 million per season with the Ravens. Paying that plus Kelly's $15 million buyout would make him a very pricey hire.

 

[hoopsstar12]

What is the price of having your home stadium half filled with red opposing shirts? Kellys job should be a sunk cost. We will lose to USC but I think Wimbush will play great in the other games and save his dumb ass.

 

[ndfi65]

Why would Harbaugh leave his alma mater where he is just now getting all his recruits through the program to ND and start over? Never going to happen. We are a 8 win program over the last 29 years...I am finally giving up and accepting this...makes Sept-Dec much less stressful for me and everyone around me.

Harbough hates ND as well he should. Love to have him though

 

[chaseball]

ND does close to $100M/year in revenue with virtually free labor.

$5/$10/$15M is a drop in the bucket.

 

[HDK]

Ty Willingham all but buried this program.

Actually, the weasel, Father Jenkins, did more damage by canning Willingham after three years because he was arrogant enough to think that Urban Meyer wanted to come here. (All that move did, Father, was get Florida to fork out another million or two to keep Urban where he was going in the first place.) Plus, even though it wasn't racially motivated, the firing set off a predictable storm of protest against Notre Dame and its smug self-righteousness.

Admittedly, Willingham was not a very good coach. He had no sense of urgency, did not recruit particularly well except his first two years and managed to take a four or five-TD beatdown to USC every year. But he did move Notre Dame's offense forward a couple of decades by getting rid of the option and switching to the west coast, which gave Weis a pretty good foundation to start with.

 

[irish4life888]

Ty Willingham was a terrible coach but even he did better against ranked teams than Brian Kelly.

These are the ranked teams Ty beat in his short stay at ND.

#21 Maryland.
#7 Michigan.
#11 Florida State.
#18 Air Force.
#8 Michigan.
#3 Tennesse (Late in his last season).

Brian Kelly turns to Jelly against higher ranked teams.

Kelly needs to go ! Some people on another site are saying John Harbaugh would be a great and realistic hire.

What great team is Willingham coaching now? I will not take the time to destroy your comparison, not that I'm a always Kelly fan, just won't waste time on beating a dead horse.

 

[irish4life888]

Actually, the weasel, Father Jenkins, did more damage by canning Willingham after three years because he was arrogant enough to think that Urban Meyer wanted to come here. (All that move did, Father, was get Florida to fork out another million or two to keep Urban where he was going in the first place.) Plus, even though it wasn't racially motivated, the firing set off a predictable storm of protest against Notre Dame and its smug self-righteousness.

Admittedly, Willingham was not a very good coach. He had no sense of urgency, did not recruit particularly well except his first two years and managed to take a four or five-TD beatdown to USC every year. But he did move Notre Dame's offense forward a couple of decades by getting rid of the option and switching to the west coast, which gave Weis a pretty good foundation to start with.

Yaaaaaawwwwwn!!!

 

[twalsh]

Actually, the weasel, Father Jenkins, did more damage by canning Willingham after three years because he was arrogant enough to think that Urban Meyer wanted to come here. (All that move did, Father, was get Florida to fork out another million or two to keep Urban where he was going in the first place.) Plus, even though it wasn't racially motivated, the firing set off a predictable storm of protest against Notre Dame and its smug self-righteousness.

Admittedly, Willingham was not a very good coach. He had no sense of urgency, did not recruit particularly well except his first two years and managed to take a four or five-TD beatdown to USC every year. But he did move Notre Dame's offense forward a couple of decades by getting rid of the option and switching to the west coast, which gave Weis a pretty good foundation to start with.

I would have fired Willingham if Oscar Meyer wanted the ND job. He was running the program into the ground.