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Tyrone Willingham
Title	Head Coach
College	Washington
Sport	Football
Team record	11-25
Born	December 30, 1953 (1953-12-30) (age 53)
Place of birth	Kinston, North Carolina
Career highlights
Overall	76-76-1
Bowls	1-5
Coaching stats
College Football DataWarehouse
Championships
1
Awards
2002 Coach of the Year
Playing career
1975-77	Michigan State
Position	QB / WR
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1995-2001 2002-2004 2005-present	Stanford Notre Dame Washington

Lionel Tyrone Willingham, or Ty Willingham (born December 30, 1953 in Kinston, North Carolina) is the head football coach at the University of Washington. He is notable as one of only a few African American head coaches in major college football.

Contents 1 Early career 2 Head coaching positions 2.1 Stanford 2.2 Notre Dame 2.3 Washington head coach 3 Personal 4 Coaching record 5 References

A football player and graduate of Michigan State University, Willingham held assistant coaching positions at his alma mater, as well as at Central Michigan University, North Carolina State University, Rice University, and Stanford University. When Stanford Coach Dennis Green was hired as the Minnesota Vikings head coach in 1992, Willingham followed him as running backs coach.

In 1994 Willingham was appointed head coach of the football program at Stanford. In his seven seasons as coach, he led the Cardinal to a 44-36-1 record, a Pac-10 conference championship and four bowl game appearances, including the 2000 Rose Bowl. His 44 wins were the most by a Stanford coach coach since Pop Warner left the school after the 1932 season. On December 31, 2001, Willingham was hired as head coach at the University of Notre Dame.^[1]

Main article: Notre Dame Fighting Irish football under Tyrone Willingham

Willingham got off to an auspicious start at Notre Dame. He began the 2002 season by going 8-0, becoming the only first-year coach in Notre Dame history to win 10 games. For his efforts he was named the ESPN/Home Depot College Coach of the Year,^[2] the Scripps College Coach of the Year, the Black Coaches Association Male Coach of the Year and the George Munger Award College Coach of the Year by the Maxwell Football Club.^[3]

Subsequently, Notre Dame finished 5-7 in 2003 and were beaten badly in four of those losses, getting shut out twice in one season for the first time since 1960. In 2004, Notre Dame posted a 6-5 record regular season, including a 41-16 loss to Purdue and ending with Willingham's third consecutive 31 point loss to the University of Southern California for his fifth blowout loss by 30 points or more in his three seasons. The following Monday, November 30, after an overall record in South Bend of 21–15, Notre Dame terminated Willingham as head coach.^[4] Defensive coordinator Kent Baer served as acting head coach for the Insight Bowl, a 38-21 loss to Oregon State University.

Shortly thereafter on December 13, 2004, Willingham was hired as the new head coach at the University of Washington. His first season at Washington ended with a 2-9 record; the team had returned 19 out of 22 starters from the previous season, in which they had gone 1-10. As luck would have it, Willingham found himself facing his former team on September 24, 2005. Notre Dame prevailed, 36-17.

His 2006 Washington team started October with a 4-1 record, with its most notable victory a stunning 29-19 upset over previously undefeated UCLA, before losing its next 6 games after starting quarterback Isaiah Stanback suffered a season ending foot injury in a loss to Oregon State in their sixth game. The Huskies ended the season at 5-7, defeating state rival Washington State University (WSU) by 3 points. This win held WSU from defeating the Huskies for three years in a row, something the team has been unable to do in the history of the century-long rivalry.

Under his helm, the 2005 and 2006 Washington teams were placed tied for last and 9th in the Pac-10 conference, respectively. The Huskies ended up finishing in last place in the Pac-10 for the 2007 season.

Willingham currently serves as a Vice-President on the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Board of Trustees. Willingham is married and has three children with his wife, Kim.

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl	Rank#
Stanford Cardinal (Pacific Ten Conference) (1995 – 2001)
1995	Stanford	7-4-1	5-4	4	L 19-13 Liberty Bowl
1996	Stanford	7-5	5-3	3	W 38-0 Sun Bowl
1997	Stanford	5-6	3-5	7 - T
1998	Stanford	3-8	2-6	8 - T
1999	Stanford	8-4	7-1	1	L 17-9 Rose Bowl	24
2000	Stanford	5-6	4-4	4
2001	Stanford	9-3	6-2	2 - T	L 21-14 Seattle Bowl	17
Stanford:		44-36-1	32-25
Notre Dame Fighting Irish (Independent) (2002 – 2004)
2002	Notre Dame	10-3			L 28-6 Gator Bowl	17
2003	Notre Dame	5-7
2004	Notre Dame	6-5			L 38-21 Insight Bowl
Notre Dame:		21-15
Washington Huskies (Pacific Ten Conference) (2005 — present)
2005	Washington	2-9	1-7	9 - T
2006	Washington	5-7	3-6	9
2007	Washington	4-9	2-7	10
Washington:		11-25	6-20
Total:		76-76-1
National Championship         Conference Title         Conference Division Title
†Indicates BCS bowl game. #Rankings from final Coaches Poll of the season.

v • d • e Stanford Cardinal Head Football Coaches
Camp • Bliss • Cross • Brooke • Chamberlain • Yost • Fickert • Clemans • Lanagan • Presley • Brown • Wylie • Evans • Powell • Van Gent • Kerr • Warner • Thornhill • Shaughnessy • Schwartz • Taylor • Curtice • Ralston • Christiansen • Walsh • Dowhower • Wiggin • Elway • Green • Walsh • Willingham • Teevens • Harris • Harbaugh

v • d • e Notre Dame Fighting Irish Head Football Coaches
Morison • Hadden • Hering • McWeeney • O'Dea • Faragher • Salmon • McGlew • Barry • Place • Longman • Marks • Harper • Rockne • Anderson • Layden • Leahy • McKeever • Brennan • Devore • Kuharich • Parseghian • Devine • Faust • Holtz • Davie • Willingham • Weis

v • d • e Washington Huskies Head Football Coaches
Goodwin • Cobb • Nichols • Jeffs • Dodge • Wright • Knight • Cutts • Place • Dobie • Hunt • Savage • Allison • Bagshaw • Phelan • Welch • Odell • Cherberg • Royal • Owens • James • Lambright • Neuheisel • Gilbertson • Willingham