I had no idea Dennis Erickson was still alive
True story on Dennis Erickson when he was the front man for ASU. I am coaching at a private Catholic school in Chandler, AZ. I have the best QB in the metro and ASU is recruiting him. Anyways, Erickson wants him to go to his office and they set up a time. My QB asks me to go with him, so I do.
It's 9am. We get to the football complex and his secretary says "let me make sure he is ready." She pokes her head in the door, turns and looks back at us and gives a fake smile with saying through her teeth "I guess you can just go in."
We walk in and he is hunched over face down flat into his desk. It smells like Lynchburg, Tennessee in this office. I kind of say reall loudly "Hey Coach!" He jumps up like a frog on a dynamite pond shaking our hands and asking us all kinds of questions. It was all the same canned recruiting bullshit I've heard a million times but the kid was excited. It was all very slurred and he was all over the place though. So, after twenty minutes Dennis tells us he has to get out to practice but he wants us to stick around and watch.
It's twenty minutes later and we are standing on the side of their practice field and Erickson comes walking by. I say "Hey Coach" and he looks right at me and gives me that stare, the stare a drunk gives you when he comes back from the bathroom and he doesn't remember who you are, even though he just told you his life story right before he went to go piss.
He jumped the shark in the 90's.