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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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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(Riddle) has a tremendous amount of passion for it, ... A lot of guys out there don't want the stigma of being a special teams coach. They see themselves as an offensive coordinator or a defensive coordinator.
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I would have loved to have had the win for the seniors. In this profession, it's all about winning. Boise State football is in great hands. The future is so bright.
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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.
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When you can't get the ball in the end zone, you've got to give the fans something.
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When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.
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When there's noise going on down here, I hear it at my house, too. There's no other solution. We're going to play in some loud, noisy places, and that's the only way to recreate it.
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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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There's an opportunity to kind of go, 'OK, we're finally home,' and Portland State, they did a nice job (in a 41-14 season-opening loss) against Oregon State.
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There's an ancient Chinese saying that goes something like this. All you need is Hawk love.
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It's just not an easy schedule for us. We have to embrace that and be able to hold hands with the beast.
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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 had great energy. That was a result of the way they practiced.
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Football's about having fun. Playing defense, you've got to be aggressive. I know it's easier said than done, but you can't be afraid to make a mistake. ... I thought they had more fun, they played more loose, they were more aggressive, and consequently they were more effective.