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
Just being around the players and coaches; the camaraderie of the game; to see them learn and get better, improve all the time; and being around the coaches and coaching football, which is what I do best. Probably the most fun is to see them get better as a football team and as individuals.
It was just fun to get out and coach. The enthusiasm for the first day was unbelievable. For me personally, it was great to get out there and coach.
It's exciting just to get out there, number one, but more than anything, just to see where we're at. We've got to find out who the players are. To me, the most exciting time, the most fun time, is practice. So I'm looking forward to it.
It's fun to see the enthusiasm out there right now as far as the Vandals are concerned. They deserve that enthusiasm after the things they've gone through the last few years.
I think there's a good chance. This interests me.
Tim is very smart. He understands the game and has a good arm. He does a lot of the things I like to do offensively. How good is he going to be? I don't know. We'll have to coach him up and find out.
We want to compete for conference championships and go to bowl games.
There are times during the year where you're so beat up, even with the practice guys that you have, that you can't even practice,
I looked in these guys' eyes and they are ready to go and get it done.
If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it in the next few days.
If we're going to throw the ball and be consistent, we've got to be able to throw it, we've got to be able to catch it and we can't throw interceptions. Those are the things that happened to us in the second half. I thought the first half was a different story.
If we can get that done, then a lot of things will happen. I don't know what it's going to cost, but obviously we're going to have to do that.
He'll be back to play next year, but obviously he's out for Saturday.
I feel sorry for the guy. It's like he's coaching in the Pac-10 with 50 scholarships instead of 85.