Because coaching in the big leagues, it seems, is not where you’re most popular. After being fired at Notre Dame for posting a 21-15 record (and after this upcoming year, Charlie’s record will probably be worse), he went on to Washington, where the fans couldn’t be too fickle. He did, after all, take over a team that was 1-10 and left in shambles from what ol’ Rick Neuheisel did. That doesn’t appear to be the case, though, because there’s a stir in Washington, and prominent people in the area are now offering money for Willingham’s head.

Among the many e-mails and letters received by the University of Washington regarding the football program and coach Ty Willingham, there are the usual: words of praise, derision, encouragement, urgency.

And then there was this: an offer by a Huskies alum to donate $100,000 to a Washington law school scholarship if Willingham were fired, and another $100,000 if Todd Turner were fired as athletic director.

You have to love an email that’s done so casually. “Look, I’ll give you a hundred grand if you get rid of Willingham.”

Next paragraph: “And what the hell: I’ll throw in another hundred if you get rid of the AD.”