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July 8

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Keith Gilbertson never was just a football player, and never has been just a football coach. He always was an advocate for the sport, and the profession. He still is, in his new role this season as wide receivers coach for the Seahawks. Gilbertson's passion for the sport, and comprehension of the game, is rooted in the fact that he grew up the son of a coach -- Keith Sr. -- in the coaching hotbed that is Snohomish County. It was apparent to Jerry Parrish, Gilbertson's first position coach at Snohomish High School in the mid-1960s. "Keith's insight into what we were trying to do was really good," said Parrish, now retired and a member of the Washington State Coaches Hall of Fame. "I could tell then, by the questions he asked, that he had what it would take to be a good coach." It remained just as obvious to Kasey Dunn, one of Gilbertson's recruits when he was the head coach at the University of Idaho and now a fellow coach on Mike Holmgren's staff with the Seahawks.

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