The fallout on the decision to keep Tyrone Willingham for at least one more year has been predictable. I’ve received 26 e-mails on the matter, 19 condemning me to a slow, lingering death for agreeing with the decision. That’s OK. I just had a physical and the doc found nothing life-threatening.
It just seems to me to be time to quit the whining and accept it. Willingham’s got at least another year. Deal with it. The program is in better shape than it was when he started here. Deal with that, too.
And pay close attention to the 2008 schedule. It isn’t easy. Washington will have to improve significantly to get into a bowl game. It may not happen, but it doesn’t mean the program isn’t moving upward. It has after three years. Maybe it hasn’t advanced as quickly as you’d like, but it’s advancing as fast as it possibly could, given the outhouse it was trapped in before Willingham arrived.
Jake Locker will be better. Their running backs and receivers will be young, but there’s talent there. They’ll likely upgrade at tight end.
As it was this season, the defense will struggle. I expect Willingham to replace at least some of the coaching staff on defense. They’ll have spring to learn the system. That’s the best they can offer.
Washington won’t be LSU, but I don’t expect it will finish at te bottom of the conference. In the meantime, watch some basketball. If that proves too much for your blood pressure, I have a lot of books I can suggest for you.
OK, I’m sick of writing about it.
Onward ….
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