SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The first time Spencer Danielson watched Boise State football was the first time for a lot of people: the 2007 Fiesta Bowl.
Danielson was a senior in high school, watching from Southern California with his father as the Broncos pulled off one of the most preposterous upsets in college football history: the last-ditch hook-and-lateral, the Statue of Liberty handoff in overtime to defeat Oklahoma, running back Ian Johnson’s post-game proposal on one knee.
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Danielson didn’t know then that he would be hired by that same program as a graduate assistant 10 years later, or that he would be named head coach seven years after that. But he witnessed
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