Check out this article on UW's Kalen DeBoer and the part about his pre-game chat with Coach Shaw. Somehow, the new head coach for a division rival lit up your team in a national title game and you had no idea that he was on the team until the pregame conversation?! Shaw is essentially the anti Sean McVay. Pertinent part of the article is as follows:
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On the field prior to Saturday's game between Washington and Stanford, first-year Huskies coach Kalen DeBoer and Cardinal coach David Shaw got to talking. These types of chats are common before games: pleasantries, handshakes, etc. The two had never coached against each other before, but there was mutual respect for what they knew of each other.
"I've been hearing his name for years and, honestly, about the things that are important: integrity, his approach to the game, as a teacher and mentor of young people. Those things that I really care about," Shaw said. "And on top of that, he's a really good football coach."
What Shaw didn't realize before that conversation, though, was that they had gone up against each other in the past. It was 1996. Shaw was an assistant coach at NAIA Western Washington and DeBoer was a senior wide receiver for tiny Sioux Falls, a private school in South Dakota with about 1,000 students. The teams met in the NAIA Division II national championship game in Tennessee.
"I was blown away," Shaw said. "I had no idea he was a player on that team. I remember that game well."
He wasn't just any player, either. DeBoer was the team's star receiver and caught 10 passes for 131 yards in Sioux Falls' 47-25 win, with a touchdown reception and a 54-yard touchdown run on a reverse. It was the first national title in school history and laid the foundation from which DeBoer would later, as head coach, build an NAIA football dynasty.
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On the field prior to Saturday's game between Washington and Stanford, first-year Huskies coach Kalen DeBoer and Cardinal coach David Shaw got to talking. These types of chats are common before games: pleasantries, handshakes, etc. The two had never coached against each other before, but there was mutual respect for what they knew of each other.
"I've been hearing his name for years and, honestly, about the things that are important: integrity, his approach to the game, as a teacher and mentor of young people. Those things that I really care about," Shaw said. "And on top of that, he's a really good football coach."
What Shaw didn't realize before that conversation, though, was that they had gone up against each other in the past. It was 1996. Shaw was an assistant coach at NAIA Western Washington and DeBoer was a senior wide receiver for tiny Sioux Falls, a private school in South Dakota with about 1,000 students. The teams met in the NAIA Division II national championship game in Tennessee.
"I was blown away," Shaw said. "I had no idea he was a player on that team. I remember that game well."
He wasn't just any player, either. DeBoer was the team's star receiver and caught 10 passes for 131 yards in Sioux Falls' 47-25 win, with a touchdown reception and a 54-yard touchdown run on a reverse. It was the first national title in school history and laid the foundation from which DeBoer would later, as head coach, build an NAIA football dynasty.
