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Article: Hawkins savors Boise State's success.(Sports)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- December 8, 2006
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Byline: B.G. Brooks, Rocky Mountain News
For five years, Dan Hawkins worked, worked and worked some more to see the season Boise State finally would break into a Bowl Championship Series game.
So when it finally happens, Hawkins finds himself about 820 miles southeast of Boise and coming off (s-l-o-w-l-y getting over) a 2-10 finish in his first term as coach of the University of Colorado.
Usually, a coach finds no great satisfaction in looking back. But in this case, a backward glance means, well, a little more.
Hawkins remembers well early mentions of BSU and the BCS in the same sentence. He also remembers "people (in Boise) looking at ...