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Dennis Erickson
Erickson in 2007
Biographical details
Born (1947-03-24) March 24, 1947 (age 77)
Everett, Washington
Alma materMontana State University
Playing career
1966–1968Montana State
Position(s)Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1969Montana State (GA)
1970Billings (MT) Central Catholic HS
1971–1973Montana State (assistant)
1974–1975Idaho (OC)
1976–1978Fresno State (OC)
1979–1981San Jose State (OC)
1982–1985Idaho
1986Wyoming
1987–1988Washington State
1989–1994Miami (FL)
1995–1998Seattle Seahawks
1999–2002Oregon State
2003–2004San Francisco 49ers
2006Idaho
2007–2011Arizona State
2013Utah (co-OC/RB)
2014–2016Utah (AHC/RB)
Head coaching record
Overall179–96–1 (college)
40–56 (NFL)
Bowls5–7
Tournaments1–2 (NCAA D-I-AA playoffs)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
2 National (1989, 1991)
1 Big Sky (1985)
3 Big East (1991–1992, 1994)
2 Pac-10 (2000, 2007)
Awards
2x Sporting News College Football COY (1992, 2000)
3x Pac-10 Coach of the Year (1988, 2000, 2007)
3x Big East Coach of the Year (1991–1992, 1994)

Dennis Brian Erickson (born March 24, 1947) is a retired American football coach and former player. He was the head coach at the University of Idaho (1982–1985, 2006), the University of Wyoming (1986), Washington State University (1987–1988), the University of Miami (1989–1994), Oregon State University (1999–2002), and Arizona State University (2007–2011).[1] During his tenure at Miami, Erickson's teams won two national championships, in 1989 and 1991. His record as a college football head coach is 179–96–1 (.650). Erickson retired on December 30, 2016 after 47 years as a coach.[2]

Erickson was also the head coach of two teams in the National Football League (NFL), the Seattle Seahawks (1995–1998) and the San Francisco 49ers (2003–2004), and tallied a mark of 40–56 (.417).

Early life

Erickson was raised in Ferndale, Washington, 100 miles (160 km) north of Seattle, and in Everett, 25 miles (40 km) north of Seattle. His father, Robert "Pinky[3] " Erickson, was the head football coach at Ferndale High School before becoming the head coach at Cascade High School in Everett. The younger Erickson played quarterback at the rival Everett High, coached by next-door neighbor, Bill Dunn. This "made for some quiet dinners on game day." As a junior, Dennis was the starting quarterback, beating out the former starter, senior Mike Price, another future college head coach.

Price, the son of the head coach of Everett Junior College, was moved to defense as a safety. When Erickson left Washington State for Miami in 1989, he recommended Mike Price (who got the job) as his replacement and rented Erickson's Pullman home. Erickson had beaten out Price for the Washington State job in 1987. Six years earlier in 1981, Price had beaten Erickson out for the job at Weber State College in Ogden, Utah. While at Idaho, Erickson was 2-2 in conference play against Price's Weber teams. At Oregon State, Erickson was 2-1 against Price's Washington State teams, not playing in 2002.

Erickson graduated from Everett High School in 1965 and accepted a football scholarship to Montana State in Bozeman to play for head coach, Jim Sweeney. There, he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Erickson was an effective undersized quarterback from 1966 to 1968, earning all-conference honors in the Big Sky.[4] Immediately after his senior season, he began his coaching career as a graduate assistant for the Montana State Bobcats in 1969. In 1970 at age 23, Erickson became the head coach at Billings Central Catholic High School, staying for just a single season.

Assistant coaching

From 1971 to 1981 Erickson was a college assistant coach, working with the offense. Beginning at his alma mater, Montana State University, in 1971 under Sonny Holland, he became an offensive coordinator in 1974 at the University of Idaho under newly promoted head coach, Ed Troxel, and stayed for two seasons.

Erickson's college coach, Jim Sweeney, resigned from neighboring Washington State after the 1975 season. He then moved to Fresno State in 1976, and Erickson followed him to be the offensive coordinator for Sweeney's first three seasons.[5] When Jack Elway, a former Sweeney assistant at Washington State, was hired at San Jose State in 1979, Erickson joined him for three seasons, again as the offensive coordinator. They instituted the spread offense, which Elway had picked up from his son John's high school coach, Jack Neumeier.[6] Erickson was a finalist for the Weber State job after the 1980 season, but lost out to his high school teammate and friend, Mike Price. Erickson would finally get his head coaching chance following the next season.

Head coaching

College

Idaho

Erickson's head coaching career began at age 34 at the University of Idaho. He was hired on December 11, 1981, to succeed Jerry Davitch, who had been fired nine days prior to his final game (a one-point home loss against rival Boise State). A pre-season playoff pick, Idaho finished the disappointing 1981 season with six consecutive losses, and were winless in seven games in the Big Sky. Erickson was hired by UI athletic director Bill Belknap and accepted a one-year contract at $38,001.[7][8]

Building on his reputation as an offensive innovator, Erickson became Idaho's all-time winningest head coach in just four seasons with the Vandals (1982–85), taking them to the I-AA playoffs in his first and fourth seasons. In his first season of 1982, Erickson took an underachieving (and injured) 3–8 team in 1981 and immediately turned it into an 8–3 playoff team, led by decathlete quarterback Ken Hobart. Erickson's overall record with the Vandals was 32–15 (.680), 31–13 (.704) in the regular season and 1–2 in post season. He went 4–0 in the rivalry game with Boise State, a team which had dominated the series by winning the previous five games.[9] (The winning streak against the Broncos reached 12 games; it was broken in 1994 when BSU advanced to the I-AA finals.)

His most notable recruits at Idaho were his quarterbacks - future NFL head coach Scott Linehan, who had future Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable blocking for him, and future College Football Hall of Famer John Friesz, who had Mark Schlereth blocking for him. Erickson revived Vandal football and quickly turned it into a top I-AA program, whose success was continued for another decade by former assistants Keith Gilbertson (1986–88) and John L. Smith (1989–94).

Before 1982, the Vandals had posted only four winning seasons in over four decades, and had not had consecutive winning seasons since 1938. Idaho had three consecutive winning seasons only once (1903–05), and never had four. With Erickson's arrival as head coach, the program embarked on 15 consecutive winning seasons (1982–96), and 11 trips to the Division I-AA playoffs in 14 seasons.

Erickson's compensation for his fourth and final year at Idaho was $47,940.[10]

Wyoming

Erickson was introduced as the head coach of the Division I-A Wyoming Cowboys on December 2, 1985. His four-year contract included a base annual salary of $60,000 plus $20,000 from radio and television, and the rent-free use of a home in Laramie.[10] The Cowboys had just concluded 3-8 season in 1985, tied for seventh in the nine-team WAC. He installed his "Air Express" form of the spread offense and led the Cowboys to 3–1 start in September, with road wins at Air Force and Wisconsin. Wyoming finished at 6–6 season in 1986, tied for fourth in the WAC with a 4–4 record. He left Wyoming without notice after accepting the head coaching job at Washington State in early January.

Washington State

When Erickson was introduced as the head coach of the Washington State Cougars of the Pac-10 on January 7, 1987, he stated that it was his lifelong goal to be the head coach at WSU.[11] His contract at WSU in 1987 was a five-year deal at an annual base salary of $70,000, with up to $30,000 from radio, television, and speaking engagements.[12] He returned to the Palouse after just 13 months in Wyoming, then led the Cougars to 3–7–1 in his first year, the same record the Cougars had the year before under Jim Walden. Erickson turned around the Washington State program quickly, going 9–3 in the 1988 season and leading the Cougars to a post-season victory in the Aloha Bowl, their first bowl win since the 1916 Rose Bowl. Erickson's continued success led to his hiring by the University of Miami in March 1989, although a week before he stated he was not leaving WSU.[12]

Miami

Expectations were very high at Miami, as Erickson replaced the successful Jimmy Johnson, who had led the Hurricanes to ten or more wins each the previous four seasons and a national championship in 1987 before departing for the NFL's Dallas Cowboys. Erickson led Miami for six seasons (1989–1994), winning national championships in 1989 and 1991. That gave Erickson more national championships than any other Miami coach. Erickson's 0.875 winning percentage (63–9) at Miami remains the highest in the history of the program. However, his 1993 team went 9–3, the first season with fewer than ten wins for Miami since 1985, and lost its bowl game 29–0 to Arizona. In September 1994, the Hurricanes lost, 38–20, to Washington at the Orange Bowl, snapping the Canes' NCAA record 58-game home win streak.

Moreover, in 1991 Miami self-reported rampant violations of NCAA rules dating back to 1985. However, when it emerged that an academic adviser had helped players fraudulently obtain Pell Grants, the federal government asked Miami to stop its probe so the Department of Education could conduct an investigation of its own. Ultimately, Miami was placed on three years' probation not long after Erickson left the school, banned from postseason play in 1995 and docked 31 scholarships over three years. Erickson himself was not implicated in wrongdoing.[13]

Erickson was interviewed about his time at the University of Miami for the documentary The U, which premiered December 12, 2009, on ESPN.

NFL

Seattle

After turning down offers from both the Denver Broncos and Philadelphia Eagles, Erickson accepted an offer to coach the Seattle Seahawks in January 1995 for about $1 million per year, compared to the estimated $700,000 in his final year at Miami.[14] In his first season, he switched starting quarterbacks from the #2 overall pick in the 1993 NFL Draft, Rick Mirer, and went to John Friesz, whom he recruited to Idaho in 1985. Friesz guided the Seahawks to their second [15] biggest comeback win ever in a game, rallying from 20–0 down at the half after Mirer had started, and took the Seahawks to the final week of the season with an 8–7 record after starting 2–6 and a playoff berth on the line only to lose to Kansas City and finish 8–8. In 1996, the Seahawks finished 7-9, Erickson's worst record with the team. 1997 saw an ownership change in Seattle, in which Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen purchased the team from then owner Ken Behring and helped pass a referendum for a new stadium to be built, that season, the Seahawks had one of the best passing offenses in the league, only to finish 8–8 after an 0–2 start in which they were outscored 76–17 in two home losses. After the season, Erickson, who had been told by new owner Paul Allen that he would return in 1998 had to fire longtime friend and assistant the special teams coach Dave Arnold and replace him with Pete Rodriguez.

With a revamped lineup led by 1997 passing leader Warren Moon the Hawks flew out of the gate in 1998 with three-game winning streak (including a Kickoff Weekend shutout of the Eagles at Veterans Stadium) but stumbled and lost their next three games. Later in the year, with the team playing at .500 he turned to Jon Kitna to lead the offense and they responded with a close win at home against the Tennessee Oilers before going on the road to New York to play the Jets. In a hotly contested game that many viewed as the best combined offensive performances of 1998, the game came down to a blown call on a short touchdown run by Jets quarterback Vinny Testaverde (where he was ruled to have scored despite replay evidence clearly showing his forward progress had been stopped short of the goal line) which cost Seattle the game and Erickson his job. This game would be cited as one of the main reasons the NFL restored its instant replay review system following the season.

The final year of Erickson's NFL contract for 1999 was valued at $1.3 million.[16]

Return to the college ranks

Oregon State

In January 1999, Erickson returned to the college ranks when he was hired at Oregon State University,[17] a five-year contract at $300,000 per year[18] The Oregon State Beavers had become one of three perennial "cellar dwellers" in the Pacific-10 Conference.[19][20][21] Expectations were so low that Erickson's predecessor, Mike Riley, was promoted to an NFL head coaching position with the San Diego Chargers after leading the Beavers to a 5–6 record.

In his first season, Erickson directed the Beavers to a 7–5 record, the program's first winning season in 29 years. They secured an invitation to the 1999 Oahu Bowl—their first bowl appearance in 35 years. The following year, Oregon State went 11–1, snapped a 33-year losing streak to the USC Trojans, and earned a share of the Pac-10 conference championship for the first time since the conference expanded to ten teams in 1978. It was the first time the Beavers won at least a share of a conference championship since 1964. Oregon State began to develop a national reputation for its high-powered offense and a swarming defense.[22] In fact, the team barely missed an invitation to play in the national BCS title game due to a late-in-the-game missed field goal against Washington. The win over USC did, however, help Erickson's crew clinch a spot in the Fiesta Bowl against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish—the Beavers' first major-bowl appearance since the 1965 Rose Bowl. Oregon State won the bowl game 41–9, in what is generally considered to be one of Erickson's crowning career achievements.

At the close of the 2000 season's bowl games, the Beavers were ranked fourth nationally in the Associated Press top 25 College Football Poll, their highest final ranking in school history.[23] Some media outlets suggested Oregon State would have been a favorite to win the BCS Championship at the Orange Bowl had they been selected.[24][25][26][27]

Before the 2001 season, Sports Illustrated ranked Oregon State as the number one team in the nation.[28] However, a lack of returning talent from the 2000 team took its toll, and the Beavers went 5–6. Among the players who hail from Erickson's high-octane 2000 team are NFL stars Chad Johnson and T. J. Houshmandzadeh. Both were selected in the 2001 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals.

Erickson was named Sporting News National Coach of the Year in 2000. His name also came up for several high-profile college football positions.[29] In late 2000, Erickson was a primary choice to fill the vacant position at USC, however he spurned a $7.2 million, five-year contract to remain with the Beavers, and the position eventually went to Pete Carroll.[30][31]

Erickson remained coach at Oregon State for four seasons (1999–2002) before accepting another coaching position in the NFL. His early departure left some OSU fans angry with him for not finishing-out his contract, but he is still credited with playing a leading role in reviving the Beavers football program. Mike Riley returned to Corvallis to succeed Erickson as head coach in 2003.

Return to the NFL

San Francisco

Erickson returned to the NFL in February 2003 with the San Francisco 49ers, and received a five-year contract at $2.5 million per year.[32] The Niners had serious salary cap problems, and Erickson lasted just two seasons before being fired, along with general manager Terry Donahue, after a 2–14 season in 2004.[33] The hiring of Erickson was very surprising and highly criticized by the fans and the media after a longer-than-usual coaching search to replace the fired coach Steve Mariucci. This move was the first strong indicator that the fans believed that John York was not cut out to be the owner of the team after taking over the franchise from his brother-in-law Edward J. DeBartolo, Jr. in 2000. The search began without much direction and several candidates in the coaching search withdrew from consideration. When the 49ers had reportedly named their finalists, three defensive coordinators were named. But the offensive-minded Erickson ended up being hired and due to the timing of the hiring, Erickson did not have the time to properly assemble his coaching staff. The 49ers' offense had mostly players who specialized in the West Coast Offense that Mariucci ran. But the aggressive style of offense that Erickson is known for deviated greatly from that scheme and the hybrid scheme that Erickson tried to employ in order to maintain parts of the West Coast Offense and ease the transition to his offense never worked out. After two seasons, Erickson was fired with three years remaining on his contract; he did not coach during the 2005 season.

Second return to college ranks

Return to Idaho

On February 8, 2006, the University of Idaho announced the re-hiring of Erickson as its head football coach. Erickson had won 32 games in his first four seasons as a head coach (1982–85) to establish Idaho as a top I-AA program in the Big Sky Conference. The Vandals moved up to Division I-A in 1996 but had not had a winning season since 1999. Idaho had just completed its first season in the WAC in 2005 when previous head coach Nick Holt resigned in early February, after just two seasons. He left to take a higher paying assistant's job in the NFL, as the defensive line coach for the St. Louis Rams under new head coach Scott Linehan, a former Vandal quarterback and offensive coordinator. After a few days, Holt reconsidered and accepted another job back at USC, as defensive coordinator under Pete Carroll for even more money, more than double his salary at Idaho.[34]

When asked at his introductory press conference if Idaho was indeed a long-term arrangement, Erickson responded, "You want to look at the age on my driver's license?...This, hopefully, is going to be my last job."[35] Erickson's rejuvenated 2006 Vandals broke to a 4–3 record and were and 3–0 in the WAC, then lost the final five conference games to finish at 4–8 overall and sixth in the WAC. Erickson was paid $215,000 by Idaho and nearly $2.3 million by the 49ers for the fourth year of his NFL contract.[36]

Arizona State

After just ten months back at Idaho, Erickson left again for the opportunity to lead his fourth BCS program. Arizona State athletic director Lisa Love hired him on December 9 to replace recently fired Dirk Koetter, who had finished the 2006 regular season at 7–5. Arizona State was Erickson's third head coaching stint in the Pac-10, after Washington State and Oregon State.

Arizona State paid $2.8 million to Koetter and a $150,000 buyout to Idaho to complete the hiring of Erickson to a five-year contract. He immediately paid dividends at ASU, leading the Sun Devils to a 10–2 regular season record in 2007, a share of the Pac-10 title, and a berth in the Holiday Bowl. Erickson was named the Pac-10 Coach of the Year; the first to ever win the award at three different Pac-10 schools. He also coached another major award winner; placekicker Thomas Weber was named the Lou Groza Award winner. Erickson worked for the relatively low salary of $500,000 from ASU in his first season, with another $2 million paid by the 49ers for the last year of his NFL contract. The remaining four years of the original ASU contract paid $1.275 million per year.[37] In 2008 the Arizona Board of Regents had approved a contract extension to keep Erickson at Arizona State through June 2012.[38]

Erickson's early success at ASU was not sustained, as the Sun Devils failed to have another winning season and lost three of four Territorial Cup rivalry games against Arizona. In his final four seasons, Erickson was 21–28 overall and 14–22 in conference. After opening the 2011 season with a promising 6–2 record, Arizona State suffered four straight Pac-12 defeats in November to end the regular season, and Erickson was fired on November 28.[39] He was allowed to coach in their bowl game on December 22, but ASU was soundly beaten 56–24 by Boise State in the Maaco Bowl in Las Vegas for their fifth consecutive loss.

Third return to college ranks

In February 2013, Erickson came out of retirement to join the staff at the University of Utah as the co-offensive coordinator with Brian Johnson under head coach Kyle Whittingham. In announcing the hire, Erickson is quoted "Being around football players and coaches has been my life and that's why I am coming out of retirement, I will do whatever I can to help the players and coaches at Utah be successful and I am excited to get back out on the football field." Erickson retired on December 30, 2016 after 47 years of coaching.[40]

Family

Erickson and his wife, Marilyn,[41] have two sons: Bryce and Ryan.[42] Erickson hired Bryce to the Arizona State staff, as a graduate assistant for first two seasons.[43] In 2012, Bryce became the head coach at South Albany High School in Albany, Oregon.[44] Later that year, he was hired as an assistant coach for Idaho.[45]

Head coaching record

College

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Coaches# AP°
Idaho Vandals (Big Sky Conference) (1982–1985)
1982 Idaho 9–4 5–2 T–1st L Div. I-AA Quarterfinal
1983 Idaho 8–3 4–3 T–3rd
1984 Idaho 6–5 4–3 T–3rd
1985 Idaho 9–3 6–1 1st L Div. I-AA First Round
Idaho: 32–15 19–9
Wyoming Cowboys (Western Athletic Conference) (1986)
1986 Wyoming 6–6 4–4 T–4th
Wyoming: 6–6 4–4
Washington State Cougars (Pacific-10 Conference) (1987–1988)
1987 Washington State 3–7–1 1–5–1 9th
1988 Washington State 9–3 5–3 T–3rd W Aloha 16 16
Washington State: 12–10–1 6–8–1
Miami Hurricanes (NCAA Division I-A Independent) (1989–1990)
1989 Miami 11–1 W Sugar 1 1
1990 Miami 10–2 W Cotton 3 3
Miami Hurricanes (Big East Conference) (1991–1994)
1991 Miami 12–0 2–0 1st W Orange 2 1
1992 Miami 11–1 4–0 1st L Sugar† 3 3
1993 Miami 9–3 6–1 2nd L Fiesta† 15 15
1994 Miami 10–2 7–0 1st L Orange† 6 6
Miami: 63–9 19–1
Oregon State Beavers (Pacific-10 Conference) (1999–2002)
1999 Oregon State 7–5 4–4 5th L Oahu
2000 Oregon State 11–1 7–1 T–1st W Fiesta† 5 4
2001 Oregon State 5–6 3–5 7th
2002 Oregon State 8–5 4–4 T–4th L Insight
Oregon State: 31–17 18–14
Idaho Vandals (Western Athletic Conference) (2006)
2006 Idaho 4–8 3–5 6th
Idaho: 4–8 3–5
Arizona State Sun Devils (Pacific-10/Pac-12 Conference) (2007–2011)
2007 Arizona State 10–3 7–2 T–1st L Holiday 13 16
2008 Arizona State 5–7 4–5 T–6th
2009 Arizona State 4–8 2–7 9th
2010 Arizona State 6–6 4–5 T–5th
2011 Arizona State 6–7 4–5 T–3rd (South) L Maaco
Arizona State: 31–31 21–24
Total: 179–96–1
      National championship         Conference title         Conference division title or championship game berth

NFL

Team Year Regular Season Post Season
Won Lost Ties Win % Finish Won Lost Win % Result
SEA 1995 8 8 0 .500 3rd in AFC West – – – –
SEA 1996 7 9 0 .438 4th in AFC West – – – –
SEA 1997 8 8 0 .500 3rd in AFC West – – – –
SEA 1998 8 8 0 .500 3rd in AFC West – – – –
SEA Total 31 33 0 .484 - - -
SF 2003 7 9 0 .438 3rd in NFC West – – – –
SF 2004 2 14 0 .125 4th in NFC West – – – –
SF Total 9 23 0 .281 - - -
Total[46] 40 56 0 .417

Coaching tree

Dennis Erickson's assistants who have become NCAA or NFL head coaches:

See also

References

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  15. ^ "Seahawks complete biggest comeback in franchise history, beat Buccaneers 27-24". Q13 FOX News.
  16. ^ Lewiston Morning Tribune - Oregon St. to choose Erickson - (reprinted from Tacoma News Tribune) - 1999-01-12 - p.4B
  17. ^ "Ex-Rainbow Beaver couldn't be happier", Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Steven Welsh, 24-Dec-1999
  18. ^ OSU Beavers.com - Dennis Erickson accepts football position - 1999-01-12
  19. ^ "Life with Riley, Act II - College Football" - The Sporting News, 31-March-2003
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  22. ^ "Pac-10 football: The best teams of the past 20 years" Mercury News, Jon Wilner, 6-June-2007
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  24. ^ Pac(-10) mentality - Sports Illustrated, Stewart Mandel "Sports Illustrated" 18-Aug-2003
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  27. ^ "Getting the job done (2001 BCS Championship Recap)" AP 4-Jan-2001
  28. ^ "After going 11-1 last year, the even-better Beavers are eager to take a shot at the title" Sports Illustrated Austin Murphy 13-Aug-2001
  29. ^ "Erickson a competitor to coach" Portland Tribune 19-June-2001
  30. ^ David Wharton, All Signs Point to Carroll, Los Angeles Times, December 14, 2000, Accessed July 15, 2008.
  31. ^ David Wharton, Another USC Turnover, Los Angeles Times, November 28, 2000, Accessed July 16, 2008.
  32. ^ Sports Illustrated - Niners name Erickson head coach - 2003-03-11 - accessed 2011-10-21
  33. ^ ESPN.com - Erickson fired with three years left on deal - Associated Press - 2005-01-06
  34. ^ Spokesman-Review - Holt 'soap opera' takes turn - 2006-02-08 - p.C1
  35. ^ Spokesman-Review - Now would be good time to jump on Vandal bandwagon - 2006-02-09 - p.C1
  36. ^ Seattle Times - Erickson Era II off to a solid start at Idaho - 2006-09-07
  37. ^ azcentral.com - ASU looks to extend Erickson - 2008-02-27
  38. ^ "online video - channel 12 news video - arizona republic video - phoenix video". azcentral.com.
  39. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 19, 2012. Retrieved November 28, 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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  41. ^ Grummert, Dale (April 17, 1988). "Marilyn Erickson knows the feeling too well". Lewiston Morning Tribune. Idaho. p. D1.
  42. ^ "Dennis Erickson". Arizona State Sun Devils. Archived from the original on October 28, 2012.
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  44. ^ Sowa, Jesse (August 29, 2012). "Dennis Erickson never far from the game". Corvallis Gazette-Times. (Albany Democrat-Herald). Retrieved September 2, 2012.
  45. ^ Sowa, Jesse (5 December 2012). "Bryce Erickson heading to the University of Idaho". Albany Democrat-Herald. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  46. ^ "Dennis Erickson NFL Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved 2012-07-20.

Further reading

"Out of Everett," The Seattle Times' Pacific Magazine, Sunday, August 13, 1995, p. 12-17.

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