Lot of good football programs around the Nation. UW should be compiling
a list of all the good assisant coaches. Fire TW and all his coaches at seasons
end. Start the new coach selection process immediately thereafter.

UW football program has been an embarrassment for too many seasons.

a employee isn't performing his expected duties he/she should be let go....one major apsect of being a coach is to win. I think the more important job is to ensure his/her players are actually being educated instead of taking basket weaving 101 classes!!!!

It doesn't matter who the coach is. The Huskies will never return to the glory years. With all the media negitivity and the Sea Chickens the talk of the town the Huskies can't recruit the big time athletes. I watched the Ducks grow from zero wins every season to where they are today. My advice to the new AD would be go to Eugene and in short order it will be obvious why the Ducks have passed up the Huskies athletic programs.

Not a Husky fan, so personally they can keep Willingham around for another ten years and suck for ten more years for all I care. But I've seen this guy on the sidelines, listened to his press conferences, and I have never seen or heard a more lifeless, emotionless, less inspiring coach or leader of any kind in my life. The players must live on No Doze to keep awake in his pre-game speeches and post-game postmortems. He gives no indication of caring. There is no fire during games, no passion or anger or frustration in his press conferences. No inspiration, no leadership. Who would want to play for an automaton like that?

Whether at the end of the season or sooner, he'll be gone. I supported him getting a fourth year to try and get it together, but now he's run out of time and we can't spend another year trying to make it work. He's a good man, a decent recruiter and a good judge of character, which is something Slick Rick wasn't, but in this game you still have to win. Ty hasn't won here, and I don't think he ever will. I believe after what happened to him at Notre Dame, he wasn't mentally or emotionally prepared himself to go and challenge these kids to become the type of players we all hope they will be. Combine that with the scheduling of the past three years, which has been abysmal and a detriment to the rebuilding of the program because these young kids are getting their tails handed to them by older, more experienced players at big time programs. A 7-5 season could have saved Ty, but that's gotta be out the door now.

I too heard the TV commentators mention how good the dawgs will be in two years when all these true freshmen are true juniors. It seems we've been hearing that for 4 years now: "we're rebuilding...gotta give it time." The seeds for this season's 0-4 start began in the first two years of the Tyrone era. The fact that most of our D-line and receivers...and running backs are right out of high school seems like an indicator of poor planning (okay, and maybe some bad luck; but top 20 schools arent supposed to whine about the athletes that didn't pan out).

I wasn't excited about the Wilingham hire 4 years ago because when he was on the other sidelines (stanford and ND), I never thought UW had to worry about being outcoached. I've supported Ty for the last few years, but that's running out pretty quickly. I do sense an increase in passion with some players, so that is an encouraging trend, but improvement has just been far too incremental.

Viewing the Huskies from afar through DirecTV as a transplanted Tacoman and UW graduate (’67) living in Tully, New York just south of Syracuse gives me a perspective others may appreciate. I am also a season ticket holder for Syracuse football, which allowed me the pleasure of seeing Jake Locker’s UW debut last year. I have seen Syracuse play Iowa, Rutgers, Louisville, Penn State, Pittsburg, West Virginia and South Florida over the last three years. I understand what it takes to be a bad team. Former Syracuse Coach Pasqualoni was fired in 2004 for not being “exciting” but his departure also lost SU one of his recruits, QB Colt Brennan, who we Huskies know can play the position. Change is not always good.

It is very clear to me that Coach Ty Willingham and his staff are on the right track with the Huskies in all phases of football. He is playing young players. The offensive line is growing stronger and more effective, and I expect with time and new recruits that the linebackers and the defensive line will improve to help Daniel Te’o-Nesheim and Don Butler. The “skill position” freshmen and sophomores at quarterback, running back, wide receiver, tight end and in the secondary indicate that the team will be much improved next year. Coach Willingham needs two more years to get to the point that he can play mostly juniors and seniors, a common characteristic of all top 20 teams. I have seen what a killer schedule can do to a team in person at Syracuse. Seriously, how many other teams would have won against Oregon, BYU and Oklahoma to start the year? It would have been tough for Alabama, LSU or USC. Stability with quality is a necessity. Coach Ty and this increasingly effective coaching staff need to stay and finish the job.

I was very much in favor of ty coming to seattle, but after watching a once proud university reduced to a laughing stock of the pack 10 and the college world i say is time to go. Start looking for a new coach now, and wave goodbye to the keystone cop.

I watched the game off/on Sat. I'm not a big football fan and when I did watch the game I would notice that you Ty, looked lost to me. Looked like the offensive co-ordinator was the one calling all the plays and you standing next to him. Don't see Mike Holmgren doing that.

People were venting that Jake was laughing on the sidelines. I saw a few other players doing the same.

Oh yeah, KJR... you need to cut back on 11 hours of programming for one game. That is overkill! The pre/post crap with Softy and the other two stooges is just plain bad.

Microwave popcorn?

You sir are no Tony Dungy...

Ty should have been let go after last season. By opting for restraint and another season to let him try turn the program around, the university has only delayed for an additional year UW's return to respectability on the football field.

It's too late for this year. I vote to *make* Ty suffer through his final season - bound at this point to be no more than a two-win affair. The Huskies are horribly coached and it shows in every facet of the game.

He says it's not microwave popcorn - the problem is the Huskies are no better today than they were when he showed up.

If I were in charge, I'd tell Ty this is it. Enjoy yourself, do the best you can ... but, come December, you're unemployed.

I don't think that firing in midseason would benefit anyone at this point, but I do feel like he should be let go after this season is over. I might be selfish in saying this, but if your job title is Head Football Coach, your job description is to WIN football games. Your job is not to be a model of human morality or mature professional, unless that helps you win games. Clearly, it doesn't.

Coach Willingham was the right person to restore the "moral compass" of the UW football program. He is a class act, and his players reflect the Coach's example in their own professional, mature demeanor. So let's follow Coach Willingham's example by not pandering to the mob calling for his head. Instead, the UW athletic director should have a quiet conversation with Coach Willingham, which will lead to the Coach announcing his resignation in a dignified manner befitting his service to the UW. And above all, the UW should not replace Coach W. with another Neu-weasel type head coach with IDD (Integrity Deficit Disorder)! Go Dawgs!!!