Dennis Erickson Joins Utah

    Former University of Miami Hurricanes football head coach Dennis Erickson has been named a co-offensive coordinator for the University of Utah for the upcoming 2013 season. He has made numerous head coaching stops in college football and the NFL. He was at the University of Idaho from 1982 until 1985 then followed by the University of Wyoming in 1986 and Washington State University from 1987 to 1988.
    The University of Miami hired him as head coach the following year as he replaced Jimmy Johnson who won a national championship the year before. Erickson made a tremendous impact on that program as he led the team to two national championships and a record of 63-9 in his six seasons there. He won a national title during his first season in 1989 over the University of Alabama at the Sugar Bowl and during his third season there in 1991 as they shut out the University of Nebraska in the Orange Bowl. The team fell short of a third title under his reign in 1992 as they lost to the University of Alabama at the Sugar Bowl in a matchup between the top two squads in the country. No other Hurricanes head coach has won more than one national title.
    Erickson entered the National Football League after he left the University of Miami following the 1994 season. He was the head coach for the Seattle Seahawks from 1995 until 1998 and then went back to college and coached Oregon State University between 1999 and 2002. He had a second tour in the NFL as the San Francisco 49ers head coach in 2003 and 2004. He returned back to the University of Idaho in 2005 and jumped to Arizona State University to run that program for five seasons from 2007 until 2011.