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Dan Hawkins (born November 10, 1960 in Fall River Mills, CA) is the head football coach at the University of Colorado Buffaloes. He has also been an assistant and the head coach at Boise State University and the head coach at Willamette University.
ins played fullback from 1978 to 1982 and graduated in 1984 from the University of California, Davis, earning a bachelor’s degree in physical education. He earned a master’s degree in educational administration in 1993 from Saint Mary's College of California.
He began his coaching career at Davis under coach Jim Sochor the fall before he graduated, spending three years there (1983–85).
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Dan Hawkins (born November 10, 1960 in Fall River Mills, CA) is the head football coach at the University of Colorado Buffaloes. He has also been an assistant and the head coach at Boise State University and the head coach at Willamette University.
Education and early positions
Hawkins played fullback from 1978 to 1982 and graduated in 1984 from the University of California, Davis, earning a bachelor’s degree in physical education. He earned a master’s degree in educational administration in 1993 from Saint Mary's College of California.
He began his coaching career at Davis under coach Jim Sochor the fall before he graduated, spending three years there (1983–85). He then served as head coach at Christian Brothers High School in Sacramento for the 1986 and 1987 seasons. He spent four seasons (1988–91) as the offensive coordinator at the College of the Siskiyous. He then served as defensive coordinator at Sonoma State University in 1992.
Hawkins coached at Willamette University from 1993–97, leading them to a 40–11–1 overall record. In 1997, his Willamette team finished 13–1, losing in the NAIA National Championship Game.
Boise State
Hawkins was promoted to head coach at Boise State to succeed outgoing coach Dirk Koetter on December 2, 2000, after serving as an assistant coach for the Broncos since 1997. In 2004, Hawkins was honored with his second Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Coach of the Year title in three years. Through the end of the 2005 season, he had compiled a 53–11 record with Boise State, including a 37–3 mark in WAC competition with four straight WAC titles. Only Walter Camp, George Woodruff and Bob Pruett had more total wins in their first five years of head coaching. He holds a 31–game WAC winning streak, the longest in conference history.
Colorado
After promising virtually all of Boise that he would not be leaving the Treasure Valley, Hawkins was introduced as head football coach at the University of Colorado on December 16, 2005. Hawkins was signed to a five-year contract paying him $900,000 annually with incentives totaling to $1.5 million. Hawkins took over the Colorado football program from Gary Barnett who had spent much of his tenure mired in controversy, including events such as a recruiting scandal that allegedly involved luring recruits to the Colorado football team with sex and alcohol.
Hawkins earned national attention in February 2007 during the National Signing Day press conference after he passionately expressed his disappointment in the attitude of a player's parent who had complained about the reduction in the players' time off before the summer condition program started, famously saying "It's Division I football! It's the Big 12! It ain't intramurals!".
RecordPersonal
He is married to the former Misti Rae Ann Hokanson, a registered nurse. They are the parents of four grown children, daughters Ashley and Brittany, and sons Cody (a sophomore quarterback at Colorado) and Drew (a freshman quarterback at Boise State). His interests range from doing things with his family, such as skydiving with his daughters and taking family vacations to places such as Machu Picchu , to reading (he owns quite a collection of books), to studying game video while listening to jazz music.
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