Tyrone Willingham
Tyrone Willingham
Lionel Tyrone "Ty" Willinghamis a retired American football player and coach. He was the head coach at Stanford University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Washington, compiling a career college football record of 76–88–1. He served as a volunteer for the Stanford University women's golf team...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth30 December 1953
CityKinston, NC
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I deal with it every day. The proliferation of recruiting has created different mindsets -- for all sports. It's a totally different makeup in many individuals than it was 20 years ago.
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I've been pleased with what they've done so far, the group of them. The most notable of them is Carl Bonnell. It's nice to see him back out there and starting to get involved. ... He seems to be moving pretty well.
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I've done this before, ... But it's meaningful because there will be many others that will make something of it.
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He is amazing. You read so much stuff about the other guy across town from him (Southern California's Reggie Bush) that he almost becomes kind of a forgotten back,
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It's a rare skill to do both of those well and to know the right time to run and the right time to throw. But I think he's come along very well in that area.
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It's not just this loss. This football team has suffered a lot of losses. At some point, we've got to break that trend. It's not just about losing games. It's about the mindset that accompanies that. We've got to break it.
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I don't coach their team. I have to coach our team. Our job is to prevent them from scoring. We have to do our job.
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Any time that you can have that me-against-the-world attitude and sometimes when you travel that's the attitude that you develop, because you're on the plane and it's just you and your teammates, you walk into the stadium, and there's not a lot of help around what you're creating really is a focus. And any time you can get your team really to focus on that game your chances go up that things go well for you. That's whether home or away, but usually at home there are more distractions.
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Everything gets more difficult. It adds another dimension to their lives.
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That creates a little hype and energy for them, ... That's a very positive thing if you can control it and keep their focus and not get distracted.
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You need guys with special talents, special minds, who don't think like everybody else.
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It's a great rivalry, but I didn't think we lived up to our end of it.
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Because it is a very fertile area to recruit, it's always nice to go there and do well. It should provide some guys an opportunity that maybe they don't get because of their football schedules to see us,
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But I think anyone that plays him walks away clearly impressed with his toughness, with his speed, with just his all-around running ability.