It made Chris Petersen a stayer, not a striver. A guy with a 57-4 career record -- say that out loud, 57-4 -- hasn't needed the money and fame and ego strokes of jobs at schools with higher profiles.
He watched his Boise predecessors, Dirk Koetter and Dan Hawkins, move on to misery at Arizona State and Colorado. He watched his son struggle to live. He learned. He appreciated.
"Boise is as good as it could be," Barbara Petersen said. "The job can be so hard. If you're happy where you are, why mess it up?"
