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Irish Wise

By By Alan Grant

Monday, October 28, 2002

He changed my mind. That was my first impression of Tyrone Willingham. He was the coach, but he was interested in my opinion. It was about 10:30 on an August night in 1989, my senior year at Stanford. The football team always stayed in Toyon Hall for summer camp and that night Willingham, then the running backs coach, came up to me and asked what I thought of the 11 p.m. curfew. Taken aback -- because he actually wanted my opinion, and no other coach in my life had ever been interested in what ...

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