Kellen Moore made an impression on Chris Petersen long before he played a game.
Last September, Petersen — who stepped down as Washington’s head coach following the Las Vegas Bowl win over Boise State — stood in a team room off Husky Stadium’s northwest tunnel, wearing a purple hat with the word “DAWGS” printed across the bill. It had been eight years since he last coached Moore at Boise State, and five since he accepted the head job in Seattle.
And yet, Petersen was still telling the same stories.
“I’d never been around anybody at that time that had prepared like him,” Petersen said of Moore, his starting quarterback in Boise from 2008 to 2011.