With Power Four jobs opening up around the country, Spencer Danielson isn’t looking over his shoulder.
Boise State’s coach made that clear Monday, brushing off the latest round of vacancies and saying his focus stays squarely on the Broncos. Baylor fired Dave Aranda on Sunday midway through his seventh season, and ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg included Danielson among five names tied to that opening, along with G.J.
Kinne, Matt Rhule, Lincoln Riley and Jeff Traylor. Maryland and N.C.
State also parted ways with their head coaches over the last week.
Danielson, though, wasn’t interested in entertaining the chatter.
When asked about those openings during his press conference, he said, “I don’t even let myself go there.”
He doubled down from there.
“I absolutely feel like God has called me here,” Danielson said. “That’s not mythological.
These players, this community, what God’s doing here, I’m all chips on the table here. I had someone call me yesterday that I was talking to and they were like ‘Any interest?’
And I’m like ‘Zero interest.’ And that’s not coach speak … zero interest about anything outside of coaching this team now and in the future.”
Danielson said he doesn’t even bring those conversations to his agent. In his words, he is “100 percent committed” to Boise State, and he described a long-running understanding between them about what kinds of opportunities he would actually consider.
“We’ve been through this now, and I tell players that,” Danielson said. “There have been times in the past that (my agent) has told me ‘This school wants you and you should look into it.’
And my answer is ‘That’s not where I want to go, I feel called here.’ So we’ve been through it enough that he knows my heart.
And if there’s ever a situation in the future that is intriguing to me, I’ll talk to him. Other than that, I don’t talk to him.
“That’s just me. I go to work, I go home.
People are like ‘What hobbies you got?’ I don’t have any.
I’ve got three little kids, I’ve got a sweet wife, and I’ve got 113 young men that I know need all of me, and that’s just who I am. I can’t let my mind go anywhere else than 10 toes down where I am.”
The timing of all that noise around him makes sense. Over the last three seasons, no Group of Six head coach has won more than Danielson, who has a 30-9 record with three Mountain West titles.
Boise State is ranked 20th, sits at 6-1 overall and 3-0 in the Pac-12, and reached the College Football Playoff in 2024. The Broncos enter Saturday’s home game against Texas State at 4-3 and 2-1 as the favorite to represent the Group of Six in this year’s playoff.
Still, Danielson said none of the outside attention changes how he views his current team. In fact, he called the 2026 group his favorite to coach at Boise State.
“Not just because of the wins and the success. Seeing who they are and seeing what God is doing now and in the future and where I really believe we can build to, I am so committed to this team and what it is,” Danielson said.
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