Trying to pin the decision to fire TW on anything other than he was an inept head coach denies what really went on.
He is a fine person but that doesn't make him a good head football coach.
He was talked into taking the job by Kevin White for the wrong reasons.
TW didn't want to be in South Bend. His family hated it. He was already talking to Washington about the head coaching job without telling his boss which was insincere at best, a colossal finger in the face to a guy who was a supporter at worst.
Kevin White made several bad decisions: retaining Davie when he should have been fired, failing to do his homework re: O'Leary, swinging and missing badly when it came to trying to hire Urban, the public mishandling of trying to hire Gruden.
He is, and always has been no matter where he was at, a terrible recruiter. While that didn't matter at Stanford, it does matter at ND and Washington.
He was fired at Washington for the same reasons he was fired at ND. Both programs were in disarray after a few years with him at the helm.
Results do matter and he wasn't a very good head football coach. After starting 8-0 at ND, he went 13-15 after that.