Tuesday is the Pac-10's weekly coaches conference call, and the forced resignation of Tyrone Willingham is a predictably hot topic.

The coaches pretty much have been reacting as you might expect --- they like Willingham and are sad to see it happen but also understand it's part of the business.

Here's a sampling:

RICK NEUHEISEL, UCLA

"Any time we in this business have a peer go through what Tyrone is going through right now it's difficult because we all understand the stakes when we got into this racket. But we hate to see that happen to good people.''

On whether his mand wanders to the way his tenure ended at UW: "My mind can't wander very far from the task we have here, so no, we haven't. I wish him well, but I know he will land on his feet. He's a proven entity as a football coach.''

PETE CARROLL, USC

On whether it will impact the game this weekend against UW: ":It doens't affect us at all. I think it's going to affect them considerably. I think the players who have been recruited by coach Willingham and all that will give everything they've got and probably a very emotional expression, concerned about his feelings. We will probably get a heck of an effort from these guys.''

MIKE BELLOTTI, OREGON

General reaction: "I have great respect and admiration for Tyrone Willingham, both as a friend and professionally because he and I have coached togher for many years and he's been in and out of this conference and done a tremendous job representing football coaches around the nation. ...

"He is a guy I respect as a coach and like and admire as a person so it's always difficult to see when things don't go right.''

"I thought they handled it in a manner that allowed him to finish the season and coach his players and I think that's really important, and he certainly had a choice not to do that and knowing Tyrone, there's no way he would go out other than coaching his guys and doing it the right way.''

"I always thought Washington is a scary situation. They've had great recruiting years, each of the last two years in my opinion gotten a lot of people we would have liked to have had stayed in the state. Can't say anything more than that he's done a good job in that regard. But as he said himself, if you don't win enough it's not going to matter.''

OREGON STATE COACH MIKE RILEY

Riley wasn't asked specifically if he'd be interested in the UW job, but gave a general answer that he's not interested in leaving Corvallis.

"I'm really thankful for my second chance. You don't get very many of those in our business and I appreciated Oregon State's and I'm going to hold on for dear life.''