On Feb. 6, 2019, Chris Petersen sat in front of a purple backdrop, with a single black and silver microphone pointed at his chin. For a moment, the 54-year-old coach with the neatly parted silver hair stared at the ground and swallowed, tapping his fingers on his crossed arms, silently preparing his statement.
Then he looked up and spoke.
“(It’s a) good day,” UW’s former head coach said with a smile on national signing day. “Good day to be done with this recruiting cycle and kind of on to the next. I think our coaches did a really awesome job throughout the whole thing.