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THE FRONT ROW with MARK NELKE: Vandal coach Ford on O-line coach Endsley, recruiting Idaho and the Montana effect (part 4)

| April 12, 2026 1:25 AM

Second-year Idaho head football coach Thomas Ford Jr. met Loren Endsley years ago, when Endsley, a Lake City High graduate, was an assistant coach at Dakota Wesleyan and Ford was at Simon Fraser.

“We recruited Western Washington pretty hard and it seemed like every kid we offered, coach Endsley’s offering at Dakota Wesleyan,” Ford recalled. “It’s like, it feels like he’s following me everywhere.” 

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