SALT LAKE CITY — When the Salt Lake Stallions kick off their inaugural season Feb. 10 at Arizona, they will do so with a piece of college football royalty.
It may have taken far too long for even the most casual observer of college football over the past 30-plus years.
But when Dennis Erickson was named to the College Football Hall of Fame Monday morning by the National Football Foundation and ESPN, he spent the day much like he spent the rest of the days during his two-decade collegiate career: at practice.
The 71-year-old football coach was in San Antonio with the Salt Lake Stallions of the Alliance of American Football, leading the first-year pro football franchise in its third day of a league-wide training camp at Comalander Field in Texas.