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Good write-up on the days leading to Petersen's hire

http://www.espn.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/105773/when-it-came-to-wooing-chris-petersen-uscs-loss-was-washingtons-gain
“Yes, that’s true. It was one of the times when I talked to him about coming back to Oregon," Bellotti said. “He said, ‘I think there are jobs with a greater ceiling.’ He was talking about Washington because at the time, they had been down for a while."
Petersen's interest in Washington was so serious, in fact, that his representatives not only reached out to Woodward but also enlisted Bellotti to call Woodward to make sure he knew how serious they were. Although feelers were put out to UCLA coach Jim Mora, a former Husky player, and Missouri coach Gary Pinkel, an assistant under former Huskies coach Don James, and Woodward spoke with Doug Nussmeier and Marques Tuiasosopo, things moved quickly toward a Washington-Petersen marriage.

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