Coach Harsin pressor healed many wounds for me.

I hope many out there understand many of us were devastated by Pete’s departure.

The 55 minutes of Coach Harsin’s press conference did more then allow me the ability to forgive Pete, but actually feel a little sorry for him in the process.

See Coach Harsin Press conference here.

Lashing out in pain is something people who care deeply do, and as some of you may have read in my personal tirade almost a week ago know I had an ironic twist of fate when Last Thursday I found myself at the home of a client who once there I discovered they had alternative motives for having me there.

I found myself face with someone making an offer that would require me to give up on something I’ve put my life into for the last 14 years. And what many of you cannot possibly know as a member of Bronco Nation in Michigan I’m pretty much surrounded in metro Detroit by Michigan grads, some friend some associates and for years they have put up with me questioning their coach and or business moves with what would Pete do.  One particular U of M grad I communicate with almost daily has put up with my comments and remarks for a while now and just earlier that week I question Brady Hokes move to go for 2 at home against OSU instead of taking the game in to overtime. So when I was presented with an offer that no sane man should have refused. I asked myself what would Pete just after he had removed himself from consideration to USC. So I said no.

The next morning sleeping in a little because of the late hour I was out talking with this client and who is spamming my phone waking me? Rafi the U of M grad I have been busting all year. My words had come back to me I was ill reading the list of pm’s from him. To wake from that after the week I had already been through was like a gut punch. 

Oh what a difference a week makes. Today I finished my second day on the new job and no doubt I am sure Pete and I are sharing some life experience as the resources and my surroundings are completely different from my last 14 years. The relief this week however came in the announcement that Bryan Harsin would be the next Coach at Boise State. Though in my rankings I said as glowing as comments about the other cannidates as I could muster, it was Coach Harsin I believed was heads and shoulders above the rest.  That feeling for him turned into being vocal and active in social media of my support.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZA_lWS5FL2A

After a long second day of what in one way feels like I went back to 1^st grade while at the same time being the teacher when I got home all I wanted to do was eat and watch the Coach Harsin pressor.

Watching that pressor I felt completely vindicated in everything I said in my piece about the rankings of prospect from Dr. Kustra to Coyle every word that came out of their mouths is exactly what I believed those men to be, honor, integrity and hard working. The only thing that could make you a prouder member of Bronco Nation was what followed those two great leaders of Boise State University were Coach Harsin's words. For men of Bronco Nation to women, in everyway Coach is just what I said he was a “wet dream” . Coach made me proud, excited, committed and remorseful for my lashing out at Pete.

As I listen closer and thought about what I personally believed about why Coach Harsin was the right man for the job I begun to think about Pete. Pete didn't have that luxury of going to a major program like Texas. Sure Oregon was an up and comer but when Pete was there they were a shadow of what they are today. Certainly nothing like what it was like for Coach Harsin had at Texas. Coach Pete didn’t have the luxury of having the experience becoming the Head coach at a completely different school like Coach Harsin had he was thrust into the job at Boise State, not even wanting the job in 2006.  As each word left Coach Harsin’s lips along with my personal experience over the last 2 days it occurred to me Pete may have maxed out at Boise State last year, simply because he didn’t have those experiences. Clearly Coach Harsin credits much to Pete but he doesn’t shy away from the fact he’s learned additional information that has required him to come to new determinations that he certainly believes and I believe makes him a better coach for having.

Sometimes we let our emotions get ahead of us and certainly we have a right we are after all human. And one week later I am firmly convinced everything that has happened is for the best for Boise State and I believe Pete’s task is a much harder road then Coach Harsin’s as Harsin has more experience and a much better understanding of the job he has undertaken then Pete.  In the end I now can see the day when Pete returns to Boise in the future not as a coach but as the President of Boise State University as  Bob Kustra isn’t going to live for every no matter how much effort we might try to build him his own Darth Vader out fit and when that day comes I cannot possibly believe there would a better man to fill Dr. Kustra shoes then Chris Pettersen.