Huskies’ football coach Kalen DeBoer shows he is a South Dakota man through and through

Kalen DeBoer got called into the athletic director’s office a few days after the University of Sioux Falls won its third national championship in four years. The 2009 Cougars had just finished one of the most dominating seasons in NAIA history. In Willie Sanchez’s mind, DeBoer had outgrown the small, Baptist-affiliated school in South Dakota’s largest city. Sanchez said he asked DeBoer if he had aspirations of coaching at a higher level. DeBoer, hesitantly, told him he did. “He’s a South Dakota boy, and it seems like in the Midwest...