The former Seahawks (and Washington State, et al) football coach is now coaching running backs at the University of Utah, Washington’s opponent on Saturday. He has no intention of retiring any time soon.
The dream began to form for Dennis Erickson when he was 6 years old, riding buses with the Ferndale High School football team his dad coached. When Pink Erickson moved next to Cascade High School in Everett, young Dennis continued to hang around practice fields, and the notion crystallized.
“All I ever wanted to do,” he says now, “is be a coach like my dad.