Idaho’s new coaching staff is littered with former Washington Huskies. Head coach Thomas Ford spent the 2020 and 2021 seasons on coach Jimmy Lake’s staff as an offensive quality control coach and in his first year at the helm, he asked a Washington alum to join him.
On Wednesday, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported that former Husky linebacker Cort Dennison, who started 30 games on Montlake and was named to the All-Pac-12 Second Team in 2011 with a conference-leading 128 tackles in his final season.
The 35-year-old spent the 2024 season as the inside linebackers at Missouri State after acting as a defensive quality control coach under Kyle Whittingham at Utah in 2023 and has made several stops around the country during his coaching career.
He’s spent the majority of that career, joining the Cardinals staff as a graduate assistant in 2014, working his way up to inside linebackers coach and co-special teams coordinator in 2017. Then, he spent the 2018 season at Oregon as the team’s outside linebackers coach before returning to Louisville in 2019 to take the same position, plus a promotion to co-defensive coordinator.