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Kelly and Bruins can learn from Petersen and Huskies

LOS ANGELES_As he stood inside Washington's spacious recruiting lounge facing a horde of boosters, athletic officials and four shirtless fans whose chests spelled P-E-T-E in purple letters, Chris Petersen tried to explain why he had taken the Huskies job after eight wildly successful seasons at Boise State.

"I needed to take that next step out of that comfort zone there," Petersen said on that December day in 2013.

Five years later it seems as if he never left - the highly coveted coach who twice spurned

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