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
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.
Obviously the focal point on any football team is the quarterback, there is no question about that. And I feel very, very good about Steve.
Al is a great technician of secondary play. He is as good as there is at coaching cornerbacks. He was with me for two years at Oregon State and then at the San Francisco 49ers. He understands what it takes to be successful in the secondary. On top of that, he is a great recruiter.
I haven't seen them on the field. When you look at it on tape, when you win two football games, you haven't done a lot of good things, to be honest.
In four years, I thought we got them into a pretty good situation. In the fifth year, obviously, they took away our chance.
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.
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.
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.
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.