<pre wrap="">Perhaps MRS Erickson is doing all of the negotiating.</pre><br><br><b><i>Saundra Lund <sslund@adelphia.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> According to today's Daily News, there may yet be hope:<br><br>"NEWS ALERT UPDATE: UI says ASU hasn't talked with Erickson <br><br>Staff report <br>Tuesday, December 5, 2006 - Page Updated at 11:33:23 AM <br><br>Officials in the University of Idaho athletic department denied reports that<br>football coach Dennis Erickson was in contact with Arizona State regarding<br>that school's head coaching vacancy. <br><br>Idaho Assistant Athletic Director Becky Paul said neither Athletic Director<br>Rob Spear nor Erickson have been contacted by Arizona State regarding the<br>school's football coaching vacancy. <br><br>It is customary for program's wishing to talk with coaches to contact the<br>school before doing so. <br><br>Arizona
State Associated Athletic Director Mark Brand would not comment on<br>Erickson or any potential coaches the school has contacted, saying the<br>school does not "comment on coaching searches." <br><br>The Oregonian is reporting that Idaho football coach Dennis Erickson is in<br>talks with Arizona State about that program's vacant head coach position. <br><br>Erickson, who came back to Moscow this season after first coaching the<br>Vandals from 1982-85, led Idaho to a 4-8 overall record and a 3-5 mark in<br>the WAC. The four wins were the Vandals' most since the 2000 season. <br><br>ASU is looking for a coach after former Boise State coach Dirk Koetter was<br>fired at the conclusion of the Sun Devils' 7-5, 4-5 2006 season. Koetter<br>will coach ASU when it plays Hawaii in the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl on Christmas<br>Eve. <br><br>The East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Ariz., listed several potential candidates<br>for the job, including former Washington State and current UTEP coach
Mike<br>Price, but did not mention Erickson's name. <br><br>Other potential coaches include former Arizona Cardinal coach and current<br>Tennessee Titan assistant Dave McGinnis, Boston College coach Tom O'Brien,<br>Tulsa coach Gary Patterson and Michigan defensive coordinator Ron English.<br>The East Valley Tribune Web site also reported that Fresno State coach Pat<br>Hill "has expressed interest" in the ASU job. <br><br>Erickson has compiled a 149-64-1 record in 18 seasons as a collegiate coach.<br>He won two national championships with the University of Miami in 1989 and<br>1991, and is credited for reviving a struggling Oregon State program during<br>a four-year stint in Corvallis. <br><br>Erickson has coached the Beavers, Hurricanes, Vandals, Washington State and<br>at Wyoming during his career, and also spent time in the NFL with the<br>Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers."<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: vision2020-bounces@moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]<br>On Behalf Of Dan Carscallen<br>Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 10:08 AM<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Vandal football (grinch news)<br><br>Say it ain't so!<br><br>But, as the article says, Dennis is as Dennis does . . .<br><br>I, too, sigh<br><br>DC<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: vision2020-bounces@moscow.com<br>[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] On Behalf Of Carl Westberg<br>Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 9:15 AM<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Subject: [Vision2020] Vandal football (grinch news)<br><br><br>Sigh....Carl Westberg Jr.<br>Here's a shock, Erickson talks begin at ASU Tuesday, December 05, 2006 M<br>aybe they'll light candles. And skip class to pray that their football<br><br>coach will stay. The hand-wringing officially will begin in Moscow, Idaho,<br>today because Dennis Erickson is talking with Arizona State regarding their<br>job opening, according to a source close to
the process.<br><br>If we're being authentic here, the combination of ASU and Erickson would be<br>frightening for the rest of the Pacific-10 Conference. One slumping, but<br><br>potentially cool, college football program with unbelievable upside hooks up<br>with two-time national champion coach? Yeah. So maybe the Mikes -- Bellotti<br>and Riley -- should catch a shuttle to Moscow to light a candle themselves.<br><br>Look. We'd expect some disappointment from boosters at Washington State<br>today, and maybe, too, Oregon State. Erickson dumped them both, but some at<br>those places always will hold out hope he'll take them back someday.<br>Maybe,<br>Miami feels the same way about the coach who brought them two national<br>titles. The Hurricanes probably are dialing Erickson as you read this<br>column.<br><br>He deserves all of that, too. Because even if you're among those who view<br>Erickson as a guy prone to taking shortcuts, or questionable characters, you<br>can't
ignore that he's a winner, and capable of taking the Sun Devils across<br>town to a Bowl Championship Series game within five years.<br><br>Now, come on, Idaho.<br><br>Dust yourself off, and tell me you saw days like this one coming after<br>Erickson accepted the job at a program that lost 47 games in the five<br>previous seasons. Tell me you were just joshing when you raised a glass and<br>toasted to such things as, "Dennis will stay here as long as the<br>administration supports him."<br><br>Because in the end, Forrest Gump could have got this one right -- Dennis is<br>as Dennis does -- and I mean that in the most flattering way.<br><br>When the coach arrived in Moscow, people kept walking around talking about<br>the "Erickson Magic" as if there was some kind of wizard-like secret to his<br>success. Really, it's a simple thing. Erickson loves to coach. And he<br>understands what it takes to win -- fast. Playmakers love to play for a guy<br>who can get them to the
NFL.<br><br>What we really have here is a case of ASU, and maybe, too, Miami, deciding<br>for themselves if they're malleable enough to hand themselves to Erickson<br>for a few seasons, knowing he's probably going to re-shape them, turn heads,<br>win games, and then, dump them.<br><br>It's not the worst trade for a football program.<br><br>T he best predictor of future behavior, psychologists tell us, is past<br>behavior. And this isn't a knock on Erickson, because at the very least, his<br>resume comes at face value. He wins. He moves on. Even Idaho, which saw<br>season-ticket sales jump 35 percent in the weeks preceeding a mediocre first<br>season, knows that there's something in hiring Erickson for just about<br>everyone.<br><br>Even as he went 4-8 this season, all year, I thought about Erickson and his<br>assistants as if they were a pack of gunslingers in some Western. You know,<br>hiding out in Moscow, waiting for Erickson to saddle his horse, shout, "We<br>ride!"
causing his entire gang to mount up and bolt out of town toward a<br><br>better opportunity.<br><br>ASU should stop talking to Erickson and just hire him already. It makes<br>perfect sense to hitch Erickson to a program that is an after-thought in a<br>market dominated by professional sports. Erickson is as big-league as the<br>Sun Devils could ever hope for, and if they saw what he did for Oregon State<br>in helping build a stadium and success, they'd understand that the Erickson<br>growth curve is steep.<br><br>Whether he gets the job at ASU or ends up back in Moscow for another season<br>before jumping somewhere else, don't feel sorry for Idaho.<br><br>They got hope, didn't they?<br><br>_________________________________________________________________<br>View Athlete's Collections with Live Search<br>http://sportmaps.live.com/index.html?source=hmemailtaglinenov06&FORM=MGA<br>C01<br><br><br><br>=======================================================<br> List services
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