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
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.
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.
In four years, I thought we got them into a pretty good situation. In the fifth year, obviously, they took away our chance.
Steve threw the ball well. Steve was very impressive, particularly his accuracy. He was on the money.
It's not about the money, it's about coaching ? I'm a coach. It's all I've done all my life. Making me sit out last year made it appreciate it even more.
I'm going to finish what I need to do. I hope I'm here. I want to be a part of it.
I'm excited to be back in the state and around these people I've known for a long time. There aren't many times you have an opportunity to come back and finish where you started.
I had the opportunity to meet all the candidates. George is the perfect fit for this job -- he knows Idaho, he knows the Northwest and he knows basketball. I welcome him as a colleague.
I'm happy for this opportunity to get back to college football, which has always been my first love.
It was a bad decision, taking that job.
We expect him to miss this week and we think he'll probably play the last three games.
We're going to wait for the legal part of it to come about and find out exactly what happened and what direction we're going to go in.