Defensive Coordinator Extraodinaire Jim Leavitt Takes DC Job Under Oregon's New Head Coach Willie Taggart

The biggest fear of Colorado Buffs fans came to fruition today when it was announced that defensive coordinator Jim Leavitt had accepted a four year deal for the same position with the Oregon Ducks program.

The departure of Leavitt leaves Colorado head coach Mike MacIntyre searching for a new defensive coordinator two weeks before Colorado's first bowl game in a decade.

Oregon fired Mark Helfrich following a 4-8 season, less than two years after playing for the national championship following the 2014 season. His replacement, Willie Taggart was hired by Oregon last week. Taggartt's first hire for his staff was Jim Leavitt.

Taggart was hired by Oregon after leading South Florida to a 10-2 record, the best in their history. Their football history is not long, however. They started their football program in the late 1990's under... Jim Leavitt.

Leavitt led the Bulls for four years at the Division I-AA level before the moved to the Division I level. By 2007, Leavitt led the Bulls into the polls, which topped at #2 in the country. It was the quickest any team had ever moved into a Top 10 ranked position following entrance into the top football level.

Leavitt was fired in 2010 after he was accused of striking a player. The school was later forced to pay Leavitt $2.75 Million for wrongful termination.

Leavitt was hired by Jim Harbaugh as linebackers coach for he San Francisco 49ers in 2011. During his time there, Leavitt coached two all pro linebackers and their stout defense led the 49ers to the Super Bowl. Leavitt and the other assistant coaches were released by the 49ers after Harbaugh left to coach at his alma mater, Michigan.

Jim Leavitt was hired by the University of Colorado in February of 2015. When he arrived, the Buffs were one of the worst defensive teams in the country. 

In two seasons, he coached a remarkable turnaround that brought Colorado into the AP Top 10, aided substantially by a defense that was one of the best in the country this past season.

His efforts were nationally praised, and he was a finalist for the Broyles Award as the top assistant coach in the FBS. Although he lost out on the award, his work rebuilding a downtrodden defense caught the eyes of head coaches around the country.

Since he was only earning slightly more than $500,000 from Colorado, Leavitt was a prime target for schools willing to pay more. Early reports indicate that Leavitt's salary will more than double in Eugene, and may come close to tripling it by the end of his contract.

One of Taggart's closest friends is Jim Harbaugh (Taggart was best man at his wedding). Harbaugh is also a trusted advisor as a coach who went to the Super Bowl and is now the highest paid collegiate football coach.

Leavitt and Harbaugh both have proven themselves at the highest levels of football. Their work together, and Harbaugh's friendship with Taggart most certainly led to Leavitt's hiring. 

Another possible impetus was that there was widespread suspicion that Mike MacIntyre was not the one who went after Leavitt in the first place, and that his hire at Colorado was at the strong urging of Athletic Director Rick George. 

Many fans also spoke openly during Leavitt's tenure in Boulder that there was obvious friction between Mac and Leavitt. And it was pointed out many times that MacIntyre rarely, if ever, praised the work done by Leavitt.

Leavitt was loved in Boulder by fans. Many, including this writer, gave him much of the credit for Colorado's turnaround. It was well deserved praise, but none of it seemed to come from Mac. 

As a manager for several decades, I can tell you that everyone wants to be appreciated by the person they are working for and with. Praise and honest appreciation are worth even more than money in many cases. They may have not been enough this time to keep a guy like Leavitt at Colorado, considering the size of the pay increase he will be getting. But leaving Boulder for more money AND appreciation was an easy choice.

Good luck to Jim Leavitt. He is an outstanding coach, and Oregon can expect great things from him in the future. I will miss watching him prowl the sidelines and the phenomenal defensive efforts he inspired. 

And I will continue to follow him on twitter:

@CoachJimLeavitt



 

 

 

Pac-12 Coach of the Year Mike MacIntyre and DC Jim Leavitt in Line for Big Raises

To absolutely no one's surprise, Colorado's Mike MacIntyre was named Pac-12 Coach of the Year today. Since Mac is listed as the odds-on favorite for National Coach of the Year, many saw the Pac-12 nod as a formality. Such are the expectations when your team improves from 4-8 (1-8 in conference) the previous season to 10-2 (8-1 in Pac-12 play), and a #9 ranking nationally.

The other coaches in the Top 10 earned a combined total of $39,682,747 between them. That's an average of $4,409,194 apiece.

Mike MacIntyre's salary of  $2,011,450 was less than HALF of the average of the top 10, with only Wisconsin's Paul Christ ($2,706,200) joining Mac under the $3 million threshold.

Seven schools pay their head coaches salaries of $5 MILLION or more. Jim Harbaugh at Michigan leads the pack with more than $9 Million. Nick Saban at Alabama earns close to $7 million. And Urban Meyer at Ohio State earns more than $6 million. Others in the $5 million range include Bob Stoops at Oklahoma, Jimbo Fisher at Florida State, Kevin Sumlin at Texas A&M, and Charlie Strong (now fired) at Texas.

In the Pac-12, MacIntyre was the lowest paid coach in the conference this year. David Shaw at Stanford pulled in the highest salary at more than $4 million. Six more coaches in the conference make more than $3 million per year. And four earn between $2.5 and $3 million. And then, way down at the bottom, more than a half million less than his lowest paid conference peer is Mike MacIntyre.

If you compare cost per victory in the Pac-12 this season, the numbers are even more startling.  MacIntyre earned just over $201,000 per victory this year. The next lowest (or most efficient) went to Mike Leach at Washington State. He was paid $368,750 per victory. His pay per victory was almost double MacIntyre's.

The least efficient salaries as far as the schools were concerned went to Rich Rodriguez at Arizona ($953K per victory), Jim Mora at UCLA ($863K per victory) and Mark Helfrich at Oregon ($828K per victory).

The average cost per victory in the Pac-12 (not including Colorado) was around $592,000 That means the average cost per victory not earned by Colorado was almost THREE times higher than what Mike MacIntyre earned.

Mac has done his job, and now it's time for AD Rick George and the University of Colorado to pay the piper and compensate their head football coach and the assistant coaches as well. 

Top of the line Defensive Coordinators are now making $1-1.5 MILLION per year. No one can doubt that Jim Leavitt is one of the top DC's in all of college football. In fact, Leavitt is a finalist for the Broyles Award, which goes to the top assistant in college football.

Three of the finalists for the Broyles Award are defensive coordinators at Michigan, Alabama and Clemson. The head coaches of those schools collectively earn in excess of $21 Million. Needless to say, their DC's earn significantly more than Leavitt's $500K.

Unless the Buffs want to find themselves facing a defense that Leavitt is coaching, they need to do whatever is necessary to keep him in Boulder. Pay him commensurate with his top notch peers and there will be a much better chance that he doesn't bolt for a better paying job. 

Leavitt loves Boulder. His wife Jody loves Boulder. His kids love Boulder. Buffs fans in Boulder love Leavitt.  The University of Colorado needs to commit the dollars to keep this love affair going.

A Warm and Moving Tribute to Bill McCartney in his Return to the Big House in Ann Arbor

Bill McCartney is a Colorado legend and a Buff forever.

All CU Buffs fans acknowledge that Hall of Fame Coach Bill McCartney is and shall remain a Buff forever. McCartney is the most winning coach in the history of the program and led the Buffs to their only football national championship following the 1990 season. All coaches since him have been held up to the standard he created.

What many people in Colorado do not realize is that McCartney was a legend in Michigan before moving to Boulder. Mac was born and raised in Michigan. He coached Dearborn Divine Child High School's football AND basketball teams to state titles in 1973. Shortly thereafter, he became the only high school coach ever hired to coach at the University of Michigan by legendary coach Bo Schembechler. Mac worked for Bo from 1974-1981 and rose to the level of defensive coordinator before being hired at Colorado.

A fine article by Mark Snyder from the Detroit Free Press details the influence that Mac had at Michigan and how closely intertwined he is with current Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh and his family.

Before the Colorado-Michigan game this past weekend, many of the Wolverine faithful were fired up because former QB Tom Brady was in town to act as honorary captain. What was quite surprising to the Colorado fans in attendance was that the welcome for McCartney was equally as loud and moving as that for Brady.

The crowd showed that like Colorado, Michigan fans remember their roots. Mac grew up as a local boy who made good coaching two different high school sports to championships. He then moved on and up at The Big House in Ann Arbor under Schembechler, before finally moving on to his last coaching gig in Boulder.

Mac's last visit to Ann Arbor as a football coach broke the hearts of Michigan fans when Kordell Stewart and Michael Westbrook hooked up for one of the most memorable plays in college football history. The Miracle at Michigan is a play that is forever etched in the minds of Colorado fans. And it remains one of the more heart-wrenching endings in Michigan Stadium's storied history (at least to Michigan fans).

All history aside, McCartney was welcomed home as a returned son. To all of the Colorado fans there to see the game, it became quite clear.

Bill McCartney is a Michigan legend and Wolverine forever too.

Buffs Show the Nation they are THISCLOSE to Rejoining The TOP 25

First of all, a serious thank you to the Colorado Buffaloes and the Michigan Wolverines, their fans, and Ann Arbor.

A thank you to the Buffs for showing up ready to play both offensively and defensively. Until the time of the first punt, watching the Colorado Buffaloes brought back memories of a time long past. Their offense was on point and a threat to whoever they played and the defense was hard-hitting and a threat to score and shut down even very good teams.

By the end of the first quarter, feelings that had not been felt about the Buffs in more than a decade were raging throughout Buff faithful scattered around The Big House. Even the Michigan fans were impressed, and a whole lot shocked.

One of the wonderful side benefits to playing at Michigan is their fans. They were friendly and open even before the game started (on the walk to the stadium and in the stands).  And they were very complimentary of the Buffs when they bolted out to a quick 14-0 lead. 

And when the Buffs scored to go up by 14 again after the Wolverines had scored on a blocked punt, their fans around us raved about the play of Sefo Liufau and the Buff defense. "Your quarterback is REALLY good!" they said about Sefo.

As for the Buff defense, Michigan QB Wilton Speight commented about the hit by Chidobe Awuzie by saying that he had never been hit so hard in his life. The hit by Awuzie led to a Speight fumble that was picked up by Derek McCartney and returned for a touchdown.

The days when the Buffs could be counted upon to be easy pickings in every phase of the game are over. The offense and defense showed they were the equal or superior of a top 5 team. And not just any top 5 team either.

Coach Jim Harbaugh is a recruiting master and the Michigan team is filled with the recruits who are the envy of schools across the country. A name often called during the game was Rashan Gary, the #1 recruit in the country earlier this year. In addition to Gary, Harbaugh's Michigan squad hauled in an additional 17 FOUR-star players in this year's class.

Despite Harbaugh's recruiting prowess, the Buffs were up 21-7 at the end of the 1st quarter. Buff fans should applaud that accomplishment. The 21 points the Buffs scored in the opening quarter EQUALED the most ever scored against Michigan at the Big House in their long and storied history.

Hundreds of games against the likes of Ohio State, Michigan State and Notre Dame (and a 1994 Colorado team that may have been among the top 3 CU teams ever), and NO team ever scored more points against Michigan in Ann Arbor in the 1st quarter than Colorado did this past weekend.

Unfortunately for the Buffs, the Wolverines are not only top tier on both offense and defense, they are probably the best team in the country on special teams. It's the one thing that separates a very good Buff team from a top 10 team.

Many Buff fans are up in arms that Colorado did not go on and beat a Top-5 team on the road after being up by 14 to end the first quarter. They are missing the reality that Michigan is truly a threat to win the national championship this year. Like all championship caliber teams, they found the weakness of their opponent and exploited it.

The Buffs were exposed on special teams (specifically punting) as a team that still has work to do. One small part of the game was the difference between winning and losing on the road against a Top-5 team.

It's a hectic week in Boulder as the Buffs prepare to go on the road against Oregon. Listening to radio and reading the papers and blogs, many in Buff nation seem to think this UNRANKED Duck team is the same as the Top 5 teams of years past.  That is not the case. This Oregon team is ripe for the taking. They have injuries to several of their star players, and their defense shows little sign of slowing down anyone.

If the Buffs can get their heads around the fact that they were so close to beating one of the best teams in the country on the road, they can go into Eugene and beat Oregon. If they fall back to psychological predispositions, it could be the beginning of a rough stretch of games.

The ball is in the court of Mike MacIntyre and his staff. How the Buffs respond will be played out Saturday.

It's Time for the Colorado Buffaloes to Get Mean, Because A Muderers' Row Awaits Them

College football is not a game of manners. 

Not anymore. It's a big money, win-or-go-home game. If you want to play with the big boys, there are no moral victories. You either win, or you lose. With overtime now, there is not even the possibility of a tie.

When head coach Mike MacIntyre arrived in Boulder for the 2013 season, Colorado was coming off their most embarrassing season ever. They were arguably the worst college football team in all of Division 1, and by far the worst team in a Power 5 conference.

On top of that, the Buffs were also still brand spanking new to the Pac-12 Conference. And MacIntyre was a newbie to coaching at a Power 5 school and in the Conference of Champions. Both Mac and the Buffs were still acting like the new kid on the block, who just wanted to make a few friends and keep a low profile. They've been wide-eyed and full of wonder.

If the Buffs want to go to a bowl game or be taken seriously as a competitor in the Pac-12, that politeness has to stop NOW!

The football Buffs have been politely knocking at the door of their new conference opponents for five years now. Their victories have been very few and far between. Mac's teams have won against Pac-12 teams only twice in three years.

That's not to say that the Buffs have not been inching closer. In the last two years in Pac-12 play, the Buffs have been involved in NINE games which were decided by 7 points or less. Unfortunately, their record in those games is 1-8, including two lost in double overtime.

It's time for the Buffs to quit knocking on the door and waiting to be let in. It's time for the Buffs to kick the damn door down!

Mac and his team have been looking for a signature win over a ranked opponent. They've been hoping for a game to announce to the conference and the country that the Colorado Buffaloes are back in the conversation after a decade of irrelevance.

Over the next 6 weeks, the Buffs face a murderer's row of games on the road against teams that always seem to be in the national conversation: Michigan, Oregon, USC and Stanford. 

Are the Buffs going to be happy just to play the Big Boys tough? Or are they going to knock 'em down and keep on hitting til the game is over? Are they going to be happy with maybe winning six games this year, or do they want much more than that?

This is the year, and these next six weeks are the time, for the Buffs to step up and make a name for themselves. But they can only do that with wins. Close losses and moral victories will not cut it any longer.

The game at Michigan is the key. The Wolverines and their faithful are not even talking about the Buffs. Check out Buff sites and all anyone is talking about is Michigan. Check out Michigan sites and CU is barely mentioned. Talk about being disrespected!

Best of all, Michigan is rated as a top 5 team.  A win at The Big House would not only give Colorado their signature win, but would also announce to the Pac-12 that Colorado is back and they will no longer meekly take their losses and go home.

The Michigan game is a huge opportunity. 

The Buffs can get national attention for the best reasons, or they can go in with eyes wide and just happy to be there. How they play will be a statement for good or bad.

The current Buffs (and few teams ever did) do not have the firepower of the 1994 Buffs team that pulled off the Miracle at Michigan. They could not and will not win on a dramatic Hail Mary pass that covers more than 70 yards to end the game.

What the current Buffs do have is a team that can play with anyone in the country. Can they beat Michigan in Ann Arbor? It's a difficult task even for very good teams. But, yes, they can win the game if they play smart, hard-nosed defense and the offense can put enough points on the board to stay in the game.

Neither Michigan nor their fans, however, believe the Buffs have a chance. Most of them aren't even giving CU a second thought. Big 10 games start next week for them, and that's what they are focused on. 

Former Buff Coach Bill McCartney will return to Michigan for the game. He is the coach that recruited Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh to MU way back when he was the defensive coordinator for Bo Schembechler. It will be a coming home party for Bill Mac.

Colorado will not get a better opportunity to surprise people this year. The question is whether the Buffs will take advantage of that opportunity and hold a party of their own.

Go Buffs!

Colorado Head Coach Mike MacIntyre Must Take Control of the Offense

Heading into what was supposed to be "gimme" win against UMass at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough (the home of the Patriots), the Colorado Buffaloes find themselves scrambling before the season gets any more lost. The Buffs and their fans came into the season assuming that the CU team would easily dispatch their three non-conference opponents and scoured the schedule to find 3 Pac-12 foes to defeat and earn the right to their first bowl game since 2007.

After the shellacking they took at the hands of Colorado State in the Rocky Mountain Showdown, Buff fans are now scouring the schedule to find any teams that the Buffs can beat at all. The Buffs, as a Pac-12 team, are supposed to have more talent than the likes of CSU, UMass, and Hawaii.

It's not even supposed to be a level playing field.

The Buffs have better facilities to practice and train in. They are able to better feed their athletes. They spend a lot more money on their program. With all that in place, the blame for the failures of the team falls squarely on the coaching staff.

CU fans found themselves longing for the play-calling of Eric Bieniemy.

That's pretty bad. Bieniemy once called a quarterback sneak on first down because he had not noticed that his team had made a first down on the prior play.

How bad was the play-calling of offensive coordinator Brian Lindgren? It was terrible. In his 2nd year at CU (and throughout his first), Lindgren has shown absolutely no ability to get his team into an offensive rhythm for an entire game (or even a half). He has a serious propensity for following a series or two of great success with the next 2 or 3 series of insisting on not doing what has been working. Or, by driving down the field and then changing the play-calling inside the red zone.

Buff fans are also asking, "Is this a team that wants to play at a fast pace (to supposedly take advantage of how 'in-shape' they are supposed to be in) or a team that methodically takes time off the clock? With Lindgren running the offense, the identity of this team when it has the ball is schizophrenic at best, and self destructive almost always.

MacIntyre jumped in to help coach the defensive backs, and it showed.

The weakest part of a horrible defense last year was the defensive backfield. Mac jumped in this spring and fall camp and worked with the DB's. It worked, because they pretty much shut down the record setting passer from CSU. Grayson averaged around 300 yards a game last year, and the Buffs held him to 134 yards in the Rocky Mountain showdown.

In fact, 84 of those 134 yards passing by CSU came in the last 17 1/2 minutes of the game. By that time, the CSU running game was so dominating the Buffs' defensive line that the DB's had to start moving forward to help stop the run. Only then did CSU start completing passes on a consistent level.

Let Lindgren focus on the QB's, and let Mac call the plays.

Sefo Liufau has obviously made himself a little quicker this year, but nobody is ever going to confuse him with Kordell Stewart or Darian Hagan. He is not an offensive threat when running, but he can use his feet to keep the opposing defense from disregarding him.

Sefo and Lindgren need to work on his pocket work. They are doing much like they did last year in regard to spreading out the passes, which mostly means they are not spreading them around at all. Last year, Paul Richardon and Nelson Spruce got the vast majority of passes thrown their way. This year, it appears that Lindgren wants to do the same thing with Spruce and the true freshman Shay Fields. The two of them combined for 15 of the 24 completions.

Another problem with the passing game is that Sefo does not seem to know how to "look off" his receiver to confuse the defense. What that means is that he tends to look directly at his intended receiver for their entire route. Defensive backs see where Liufau is looking from the time he gets in the pocket and they KNOW where the ball will be thrown. It also makes it much easier when they know that most of the passes will be thrown to the same two guys.

Last year, 59% of the completed passes went to Richardson and Spruce. In the game against CSU, 62.5% of the completions went to Spruce and Fields. That's okay if your receivers are dominating and scoring at will. It's not okay when your team has won only 4 out of 13 games under Lindgren.

Maybe Lindgren was spoiled working with David Fales.

Watching highlights of Fales, he seems to have the tendency of watching his receiver run the route too. The difference between Liufau and Fales, however is that Fales scanned the field of play with the eyes of a hawk to determine which of his receivers was likely to be open BEFORE the play started. It was only then that the ball was snapped and Fales hit his target so often that he was considered one of the best QB's in the country.

The other difference is that when the guy Fales thought would be open wasn't, he was able to adjust down the line. In 2012, Fales had eight receivers with 10 or more catches, six with 26 or more, four with 47 or more, and two with 62 or more. Fales was able to spread the wealth to lots of different receivers and San Jose State was a much harder team to defend because of it.

Lindgren got much of the credit for that San Jose Spartan team in 2012 that won 11 games and ended up in the top 20 at the end of the season. Perhaps that credit would be better directed at David Fales. The success of Lindgren's offensive schemes has been very limited without Fales in the line-up.

In a two year span, Lindgren went from Offensive Coordinator for the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks to the same position for a Pac-12 team.

Some coaches are able to make quantum leaps up the ladder in a very successful way.

San Francisco 49er Head Coach Jim Harbaugh is often used as an example. He went from coaching a FCS program at the University of San Diego for three years to head coach at Stanford. He made the Cardinal, a perennial also ran in football, one of the most dominant teams in college football. After 4 years at Stanford, he became head coach for the NFL 49ers. He quickly turned a down team into a contender. He won NFL coach of the year in 2011 and guided the team to the Super Bowl in 2012.

Lindgren cannot be compared to Harbaugh. For one, Harbaugh spent 14 years at quarterback in the NFL. Lindgren was 7 years old when Harbaugh was playing NFL football.

This is not to say that Brian Lindgren does not have a bright future as a coach.

What is being said is that Lindgren needs more seasoning before taking over an offense that has to compete in the Pac-12. He needs to spend more time with his quarterbacks and less time trying to create an offense and calling plays.

If Lindgren ever expects Liufau to be nearly as good as David Fales, he needs much more attention than a trip to the Manning Passing Academy. Liufau needs a coach who devotes all his time to the quarterbacks at the University of Colorado. And Lindgren needs to focus on one thing (coaching the QB) before being thrust into the lion's den of Pac-12 football.

Colorado Buffs Should Look to Stanford for Football Inspiration

Some of the darkest days for fans of the University of Colorado football program have been concentrated in the last several years. Paradoxically, those looking for a new dawn in Boulder might focus their attention West to Palo Alto in California's Bay Area. It is there on the Stanford campus where one might find how quickly a new coach can turn around a moribund program.

The mastermind behind what is now the Stanford juggernaut was current San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh. Following a three year stint at the University of San Diego, Harbaugh was named the head coach at Stanford. The situation in Palo Alto in 2006 was every bit as dire as it was in Boulder in 2012.

The Cardinal finished the 2006 season with a record of 1-11, lowlighted by an offense which scored a grand total of 127 points for the season. How bad is that? By comparison, the CU Buffs scored 214 points in 2012. Two days after the 2006 season ended, head coach Walt Harris was fired, and the Harbaugh revolution was begun.

Following the 1-11 season in 2006, Harbaugh began the arduous task of rebuilding the football culture for the Stanford Cardinal. In 2007, Stanford won four games, in 2008 they won five games, and in 2009 they won eight games to become bowl eligible for the first time since 2001.

 By 2010, the rebirth of the Stanford Cardinal football program was complete. Harbaugh led the team to an astonishing record of 12-1 and were ranked #4 in the country following the bowls. It was the first time that Stanford had been ranked in the top five at the end of the season in 70 years.

When Jim Harbaugh was hired at Stanford, one of the more important things he did was to bring along Mike Shaw, the current Cardinal head coach. When Harbaugh moved on to become head coach of the NFL San Francisco 49ers following the 2010 season, Shaw stayed at his alma mater as head coach and has kept the Cardinal rolling with 23 wins out of his 27 games. Stanford has ended the year in the Top 10 both of those seasons.

Like the Cardinal in 2006, the 2012 version of the CU Buffs was arguably the worst in the long and storied history of the program. They not only lost a lot (11 times, versus only victory), but they also lost so ugly that opponents scored more than 40 points 8 times during the season. Four opponents scored at least 50 points, and two rocked the Buffs for 69 and 70, respectively. Following the end of the season, head coach Jon Embree was fired.

Mike MacIntyre was hired  in December 2012 as the new head football coach at the University of Colorado. MacIntyre was previously the head coach at San Jose State, where he pulled a very Harbaugh- like reconstruction of the football program. In his three years at SJS, the Spartans went from a single win in 2010 (1-12), to 5-7 in 2011, and then to a stellar 11-2 record in 2012.

Like Harbaugh did at Stanford, MacIntyre took the San Jose State program and changed the culture. He did this by building an excellent staff that was dedicated to working as a team to molding young men into student athletes first and foremost. The excellence they demanded of their players off the field helped turn them into very good football players on the field.

The terms "strength" and "conditioning" are a mantra for all football programs, of course, but MacIntyre took it to a new level by hiring a young man named Dave Forman to be his director of Sports Performance. While at San Jose State, Mac hired Forman away from Stanford, where he had been working as a strength and conditioning coach for three years.

In his time at Stanford and his two years at SJS, Forman turned programs which were routinely pushed around into teams known for their strength, conditioning and performance. There is no reason whatsoever to believe that he will not achieve the same thing in Boulder. Indeed, the altitude at CU will only help CU to become one of the best conditioned programs in the conference and the country.

In the horror of the 2012 football season, it seemed to many Buff fans that the football world had been turned upside down. That being the case, the sun coming up to better times has risen from the West. Stanford and San Jose State are both bastions of the Bay Area's Silicon Vally, and together they helped create the new football technology which will return Colorado to football prominence once again.

Let the MacIntyre revolution at CU begin!

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