UW athletic director Troy Dannen spoke about the football coaching change.
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00:00 Troy, I'm curious about the timeline.
00:02 When did the search really start,
00:04 considering when you started to find out about
00:07 the possibility of Alabama and all those things?
00:10 Well, in some ways you're in search mode every day.
00:12 You never know.
00:14 Obviously, that list was percolating.
00:17 But really, when I got notification on Thursday
00:21 from Alabama that they wanted to talk to Kaylin formally,
00:25 we kind of went into full bore, lockdown search mode.
00:29 Now, if we didn't need to hire a coach,
00:32 we didn't need to hire a coach,
00:34 but the exercise began at that point in time.
00:36 I like to use the term "lockdown."
00:39 That's when we got in the office and just started really digging.
00:43 But in some ways--and I've said this--
00:47 when we had an unsigned contract and we couldn't get it signed,
00:51 it gave me pause.
00:53 So I wanted to make sure that I was prepared
00:55 if we got to this eventuality.