Tyrone Willingham has been in the coaching business for 28 years. He has spent time as an assistant coach for Michigan State and was a running backs coach for the NFL Minnisota Vikings. He started out as the assistant coach at Stanford before he took the head coaching job there. At Stanford he spent 7 years building up the Cardinal team. He took Stanford to the Rose Bowl for the first time since 1972 and also his teams first Conference Championship in ten years. He was very successful in this career at Stanford University. Tyrone though always had his eye on a big name coaching

When Tyrone Willingham accepted the job, in his press conference one of the first things he said was that "It was important for me to take this job." He took this job not only because it is the most prestigious job in all sports, but to continue to break down the color barrier. Thought he did not say exactly why it was important, everybody knew the point coach Willingham was trying to make. Notre Dame is known throughout the world as a great university for both athletics and academics, but there has been a shadow that was caste over the University. There was a lingering stereotype that the University is racist. Notre Dame is a Catholic University, where a majority of the students who are enrolled at the school are of Caucasian race. Along with that there had never been a head coach of any sort at the school, in

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