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DeBoer Receives Fourth Coach of the Year Honor

The Husky leader continues to be recognized for his extraordinary Montlake success.

Dan Raley

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With the University of Washington football program signing new players on Wednesday before resuming CFP practices, Kalen DeBoer took yet another bow — becoming the Eddie Robinson Award winner as the national coach of the year.

It marked the fourth such honor that has come to the second-year Husky leader, following Associated Press, The Sporting News and Home Depot accolades.

DeBoer, shaking up the college football landscape with his unprecedented UW success, was rewarded this time by a vote of the Football Writers Association of America in conjunction with the Sugar Bowl. Eddie Robinson was a legendary Grambling coach.

DeBoer was chosen from a finalist field of David Braun from Northwestern; Jamey Chadwell of Liberty; Eliah Drinkwitz of Missouri; Jedd Fisch of Arizona; Rhett Lashlee of SMU; Chuck Martin of Miami (Ohio); Mike Norvell of Florida State; Barry Odom of UNLV; Nick Saban of Alabama; Steve Sarkisian of Texas; and Jon Sumrall of Troy. Six of those coaches won conference championships, as did DeBoer.

The UW coach has caught everyone's attention by leading the Huskies to a 13-0 season in just his second season, with a CFP semifinal game against Texas on Jan. 1 in the Sugar Bowl coming up.

DeBoer is 24-2 as the UW head coach, holding a 20-game winning streak as the Huskies enter the postseason. In nine seasons as a college head coach, he is 103-11.

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DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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