Troy Taylor knew he was ready for a new challenge, but wasn’t outwardly pursuing a job coaching college football when he received a call from Eastern Washington coach Beau Baldwin last year.
Baldwin was looking for a new offensive playcaller and was encouraged by Washington coach Chris Petersen to give Taylor a look. As a coach at Folsom High School in Northern California, Taylor engineered some of the most prolific offenses in the history of high school football and through the recruitment of quarterback Jake Browning, Petersen got to know Taylor well.
Petersen didn’t wait to see if Taylor was interested in the job at Eastern Washington before pitching him to Baldwin.