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Big facts. He's so underrated by our fanbase, IMO Erickson is the 2nd best HC in school history behind Jimmy.Pink doesn't get the props he deserves. Dude was innovative with his power spread offense at the time and put some of my favorite defenses ever on the field. His teams were spicy af.
Erickson was a great offensive mind for his time, before he came to Miami he was in places like San Jose St, Wyoming & Wash St where he developed his offense that was very cutting edge for its time which was right around the same time that Bill Walsh was developing the West Coast Offense at Stanford & San Fran with Mike Holmgren & Andy Reid.
Erickson was with Jack Elway (John's Dad) at San Jose St & at Fresno St, John Elway was running the very first Spread offense in High School at Granada Hills & when Erickson was at San Jose St as an OC he learned the One Back Spread from Cactus Jack Neumeier himself, that's why our Offenses looked like that with him as HC.
Craig Erickson & Torretta slinging in Dennis's offense with Bratkowski. The dip off in QB play came under Rich Olson with Costa & Collins.