Dennis Erickson
Dennis Erickson
Dennis Brian Ericksonis an American football coach and former player. He is currently the assistant head football coach and running backs coach at the University of Utah. Erickson as served as the head football coach at the University of Idaho, the University of Wyoming, Washington State University, the University of Miami, Oregon State University, and Arizona State University. His record as a college football head coach is 179–96–1. Erickson has also been the head coach of two teams in the...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth24 March 1947
CityEverett, WA
You can't stop him, you can only hope to contain him, huh? Who made that up, Winston Churchill ?
The challenge here is to win, to compete for the conference championship and to go to bowl games. Yeah, I love it here. I came here because I'm a football coach and I want to help the University of Idaho become successful.
The greatest thing that's happened to me is Nick Holt leaving so I can come back.
It's a combination of young guys and some veterans. I spent a lot of time interviewing and talking to the staff here. I really felt they did a good job. I wanted to keep as many as I could.
It's not about the money, it's about coaching ? I'm a coach. It's all I've done all my life. Making me sit out last year made it appreciate it even more.
I'm going to finish what I need to do. I hope I'm here. I want to be a part of it.
I thought we did some pretty good things ... execution-wise. The offense is new, but they executed pretty well. Defensively we did some good things, but we've got a long way to go.
It's been a good spring. It's been a learning process, obviously, with some of the new things that we put in.
He would have a great chance to start for us.