A familiar face won’t be on the sidelines of Boise State’s spring practices this year.

Following the loss of Chris Petersen, new head coach and former offensive coordinator Bryan Harsin — the man that helped pave the way for the Broncos offensive success over the past decade—will attempt to use this spring to implement his own DNA in the team’s gameplan and create a new identity for a team that has fallen from their former glory.

Speaking at his pre-spring practice press conference, Harsin said he hopes the Broncos can begin to implement their DNA — the core of who Boise State is — during the spring.

“Our goals for spring, obviously offense, defense and special teams, we need to get all those phases in and we need to get the DNA,†Harsin said. “Really the most important part, is to get the DNA in all three of those phases and get good at it.â€

Harsin and his coaching staff will spend the first three days of spring practice implementing the DNA of how the Broncos run everything, from pass protections to coverages and kick-off returns.

“Everything that we do is going to be based around these several concepts that we have,†Harsin said. “Each and every week these concepts should show up in the base plan.â€

Implementing the DNA is not Harsin’s only goal for the spring practices, he hopes he and his coaching staff and players can find their identity going into summer.

It’s Harsin’s hope the identity will come from the DNA plays that will serve as the base work for the entire Bronco program, as well as the three major pillars for the program he and the coaching staff have discussed — discipline, toughness and conviction.

“Those things overall for our football team and our program are three things that coming out of spring practice I want to see,†Harsin said. “I want to see the discipline to do the things that we need to do, the toughness that we want to create through spring practices and then conviction for what we’re doing.

“I think those three things are extremely important for our success.â€

Spring practices begin March 10 and will run through the end of the semester. The annual Spring Game, which Harsin hopes will bring out 20,000 fans, will occur on April 12.

Check out our full coverage of the spring press conference.