Booster offered $200K UW fired Willingham, AD
Published 1/10/2008 at FOXSports.com News for COLLEGE FOOTBALL
A University of Washington booster offered $200,000 for law school scholarships if coach Ty Willingham and athletic director Todd Turner were fired, The Seattle Times reported Thursday.
The offer made by Ed Hansen, a multimillionaire lawyer and former three-term mayor of Everett, to university president Mark A. Emmert was included in approximately 1,000 e-mails obtained by The Times in a public records request. The e-mails were written to Emmert, Willingham and Turner over the past four months.
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