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’It’s in my guts’: Gary Andersen is back home, at USU, where he always hoped he’d be lucky enough to return

Logan • Football season was long over, and a whiteout slammed the streets of Logan. On a frigid winter evening over four years ago, the kind of storm that forced folks to just stay in for the night, the unforgettable impression made by Gary Andersen during his time there resurfaced. Hamid Salehi, then the owner of Logan’s Heroes, a sandwich shop on Main Street in Logan, said of all the years he’s been in Cache Valley, nothing ever compared to those four-plus years Andersen was in charge of Utah State football.

The town, Salehi said, was alive.