Dan Hawkins
Dan Hawkins
Danny Clarence Hawkinsis an American former gridiron football player, coach, and sportscaster. He served as the head football coach at Willamette University, Boise State University, and the University of Colorado, compiling a career college football record of 112–61–1. Hawkins was the head coach of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football Leaguefor five games in 2013 before he was fired mid-season. He was a studio analyst for college football with ESPN...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth12 December 1976
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.
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Anytime you start spring ball or fall ball, things always favor the defense a little bit because they have less to think about. You have no pads on, and usually the defense is a little bit more aggressive, so it's tough for the offense to counter.
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The biggest thing you need to do is go in there and galvanize some things, because they've been through a lot.
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There's a side of me that goes out to him, because I know he's got to answer that question (about beating Boise State), and I know that's not fun. We don't get into (the streak). We never talk about that. That's not part of what we do at all.
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There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.
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It does bring issues. It's not like being somebody else on this team. As long as we're playing OK, things will be fine. If he's not playing well, he'll get a hard time from you folks (the media). People will say he's only playing because he's the coaches' kid.
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My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.
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It's been awesome for me. I'm very fond of my time here. At the same time Christopher Columbus set sail once and people thought he was crazy. Sometimes in your life you have to be able to do that a little bit, and that's what I'm doing.
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They did an awesome job. His team executed.
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I've got a guy right here, ... that's fired up about Boise State and he's from Tennessee.
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He gets it to the right guy. He finds the guys that are open, gives them the opportunity to catch and run with it. It's going to be difficult to stop these guys.
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I can just as easily see a scenario where we're 2-0 and everyone's booking their tickets to the Rose Bowl,
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Life isn't about being fair. It is what it is. Both teams have played mid-week games, we've played at 9 in the morning, Thursdays, Fridays. I don't think the fairness issue plays into it.