Booster Offered $100,000 for Coach's Firing

Jayhawk Fan posted 1/10/2008 from thewizardofodds.blogspot.com [flag]

A disgruntled Washington booster offered $100,000 to university president Mark Emmert six weeks ago if Emmert would fire coach Tyrone Willingham , the Seattle Times reports . The booster was identified as multimillionaire attorney Ed Hansen, a Washington alum and former three-term mayor of Everett, which is located north or Seattle. Hansen also asked for the termination of Todd Turner as ... [link]

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ygbfkm

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I'll chip in too. Let's make it $100,005.

Posted 1/10/2008 [reply] [flag]
- Jayhawk Fan
  
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  Hey, we could start a Ball Hype pool.
  
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CURIOUS INDEX 1/10/07
Published 1/10/2008 by Orson Swindle at EDSBS
... A booster offered the Washington AD $100K to fire Ty Willingham. We wish we could have done this, but thirty seven dollars and some serious Delta Skymiles were all we had to offer to get [NAME REDACTED] fired in 2003. ...

OMGZ WASHINGTON BOOSTER IS SO RACIST
Published 1/10/2008 by CW <info@rakesofmallow.com> at Rakes Of Mallow
From the Wizard of Odds, a Husky booster offered the University of Washington president $100,000 to fire Ty Willingham, who has just completed his third season with the team. (HT: ...

Everybody hates Tyrone Willingham. Again. ... [Tyrone Willingham]
Published 1/10/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
Everybody hates Tyrone Willingham. Again. [The Wizard Of Odds]

Cheap Shots #90: The Intensity Behind High School Football.
Published 1/11/2008 by Signal to Noise at Signal to Noise
... [The Money Shot] Bad free throw shooters in the ACC are now known as “The Brandan Wright All-Stars.” [Storming the Floor] Brent Musberger’s been drinking before the game again. [Awful Announcing] “We’re gonna have to build a bigger penalty box.” [Can’t Stop the Bleeding] Only $100K offered to have Ty Willingham fired? Boosters need to cover the buyout with their offers first. [The Wizard of Odds] The philanthropy, generosity, or donations of time of the top 25 ...

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Will Ty Willingham Ever Coach His Own Seniors Again?

Posted 1/10/2008 on East Coast Bias

Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request, we now know that attorney and developer Ed Hansen has pledged $100,000 to a U. of Washington Law scholarship fund if Ty Willingham is fired, as well as $100,000 if the AD, Todd Turner, is fired. Willingham is 11-25 in three years at Washington, having finished 9th or worse each year in the Pac-10. In three years at Notre Dame he was 21-15, ...

Who is your Ty Willingham?

Posted 1/10/2008 on Randball

A nice read and interesting bit of information over at the Seattle Times caught our eye earlier . Apparently a man — Ed Hansen, in fact — is willing to donate $100,000 to a U of Washington Law School scholarship program if the school fires football coach Ty Willingham (he’s also offering another $100K if they fire the AD). Our question is this: Who is your Ty Willingham? ...

Big-time college athletics gone awry?

Posted 1/10/2008 on Sports Scope

Not thrilled with the athletic program at the University of Washington, Ed Hansen, a wealthy booster, offered the school $100,000 to fire football coach Tyrone Willingham and promised another $100,000 if the school fired athletic director Todd Turner. On a...

Booster offered $200K UW fired Willingham, AD

Published 1/10/2008 on 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 ...