On the 120-yards-by-53-yards-and-one-foot space inside the boundaries of a football field, and far beyond them, too, Dennis Erickson has witnessed just about every-darn-thing there is to see. He’s experienced darn near everything there is to feel and know.
In the run-up to mentoring the Stallions, Erickson coached at high schools in three Western states. He coached at colleges — in the mountains, in the desert, on the coast, on the other coast, in the mountains, again, in leagues like the Big Sky and the Big East and the WAC, in the Pac-10 and the Pac-12. He won a couple of national championships at Miami.