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4 6 January2Oo8: Coach Nirpttor
4 6 January2Oo8: Coach Nirpttor
4 6 January2Oo8: Coach Nirpttor
gotten to this position and have some Boise State? There seems to he some football there with al! of those people
success as a coach is because I have interesting lineage between yourself that 1 had to kind of hone it dttwn to
been so fortunate. Every coach that and the two previous Broncos coaches. what 1 was going to be all about. That
has been placed in my path has PETERSEN: Dirk Koetter was a big challenge right away. But the
shaped me into the coach I am today. became the head coach here while I thing that was such a perfect fit for me
Tim Walsh was great to work for. And was at Oregon. And my wife and 1 to come over here was that we were
I learned .so many different things thought about coming here, too. But running the same style of offense we
from Mike as far as how to conduct we just really liked Oregon a lot and had run at Oregon. So I was very
yourself and how to organize. Plus decided to stay put for some time. U familiar with it. As we have gone
he's a good football mind. The other was three years later that Dan Hawkins through the years we have sort of
thing tbat I had at Oregon, that was got the job. Dirk took him with him added a different spin and added
so beneficial, was that I was with three from Oregon. And Dan Hawkins and I things here and there. Now it looks
ofthe best football guys in the coun- go back to our UC-DaNis days together. quite a bit different but that's because
try in my opinion. Dan probably just pushed me harder of all of the other great assistants that
I was the wide receivers coach and than Dirk did to get tne to come here. we have had here that have all had
tbe offensive coordinators were Al I already knew most of the staff that input into what we are doing.
Borges, who is now at Auburn; then was in place. I think I was one ofthe
Dirk Koetter, who is now with the last guys to get hired. It was a chance COACH: At Boise State you have
Jacksonville Jaguars; and then Jeff to be an offensive coordinator, had two excellent quarterbacks in
Tedford, who is at Cal, Those are my although that wasn't a huge motiva- which to huild your offense around, in
buddies and the guys from whom I tion to tell you the truth. Ryan Dinwiddie and Jared Zabransky.
learned how to do so many things. As both a former college QB and QB
They all had very different styles and COACH: As the new OC, what was coach, what are some of the funda-
methods of doing things, and all very your mindset? Were you beg, borrow- mentals that you preach for that posi-
successful in their own way. I was able ing, and stealing from the great offen- tion?
to glean a htUe from each of them. sive minds you had learned from or PETERSEN: That's the whole
did you develop your own philosophy? thing. In our style of offense, our
COACH: What brought you to PETERSEN: There is so much quarterback has to play at a high level.