Tyrone Willingham Tyrone Willingham, who last year accepted the job of head football coach at Notre Dame University, broke a sort of “color barrier” at the school. He became the first African-American to coach the Irish in any sport. Tyrone Willingham has been in the coaching business for 28 years. He has spent time as an assistant coach for Michigan State and was a running backs coach for the NFL Minnisota Vikings. He started out as …showed first 75 words of 552 total…

…showed last 75 words of 552 total…reason for not having an African American as a head coach. It was a big step for Tyrone Willingham to take this job and he is getting praise from the black community for it. It has also changed Notre Dame and is proving to people that the school is stepping forward with his hiring. Tyrone Willingham is one of the great men in sports and will go down in history with what he has done.