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
both fairness issue life played plays teams
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.
played twice
When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.
gig les paul played
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.
afraid easier played playing
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.
gone madison played square
We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album.
against couple played schools
He didn't want to play against us (Boise State). Unfortunately a couple of schools (that he liked) would have played against us.
build credit good hanging last loss oregon played proud state week
Got to give Oregon State a lot of credit. Got to give them credit for hanging in there. I was proud of our guys. We played much better than last week (a 38-13 loss at Georgia) -- not good enough to win, but some things to build on.
bands exposure far gig played smallest travel wait
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.
best bit ready sad sure trying
I'm sure it will be sad to some degree. I'm just trying to get us ready to play as best we can. Once it's over I'm sure it'll be a little bit of a shock.
age aiming early easier exactly knew life musician
I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
age changes interest likes older somewhere toys until
Everyone likes toys when they're a little kid. Somewhere about age 14 or 15, their interest kind of changes to other things -- until they're older and have their own kids.
biggest
The biggest thing you need to do is go in there and galvanize some things, because they've been through a lot.
possibly
The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
bunch knee rehab time worry
It was just a better use of his time really to go and study, and rehab his knee and not worry about being out here and limping through a bunch of stuff.