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
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.
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.
It's been a good spring. It's been a learning process, obviously, with some of the new things that we put in.
There were a lot of questions in a lot of people's minds. Not ours. I expected him to play well. For the first time out, he probably performed better than any of us thought.
There were times last year when we had offensive and defensive linemen going both ways. There are times when guys are so beat up, they won't practice on Wednesdays. They won't practice on Fridays. So you've got to have some guys fill in.
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 just thought it was an opportunity for me to come back, give back and get back to coaching college football ... my first love.
I'll have to talk to him it's the first I've heard of it. We all make mistakes. It's what you do after.
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.
Him missing 2? weeks in the preseason really hurt him and set him behind,
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,
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.