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Teacher by day, Buff fanatic by night, and, actually throughout the school day also. I was raised in Boulder during the dark Chuck Fairbanks years by two University of Michigan alums. I knew "Go Blue!" long before "Go Buffs!", but when a relatively unknown defensive coordinator was hired to lead the Buffs, my interest was slightly piqued. By the time I reached high school Bill McCartney was building a solid foundation with homegrown talent like Jon Embree and I remember the day in 1986 when Boulder celebrated the win over Nebraska. In college I sold beer, watched Coach Mac win a championship, Rashaan Salaam win a Heisman and I was hooked forever. When Jon Embree was hired, I renewed my season tickets and hit the practice rail. I wrote up a few things for some relatives, forwarded them to a few friends, and then made it a blog. Now I find writing about my Buffies is fun, more informative and therapy! I'll post a few times a week during the season, less in the offseason, with news, musings and links. Go Buffs!

Monday, December 3, 2012

It's getting serious...

Things are actually moving and people are actually talking.  A lot should happen in the college football coaching world today. South fired Skip Holtz making a total of 12 current vacancies. CU probably won't have an announcement today, but it could be coming sooner than later.  CU has conducted at least one interview and is scheduled for another today.  There are still dark horse candidates out there.

Bohn has invited the input, at least on the surface, of current players with one from each class giving him their two cents on behalf of the team: freshman QB Shane Dillon, Soph. WR Tyler McCulloch, Jr. WR Paul Richardson and Sr. LT David Bahktiari (who is also inquiring about his draft rankings). Other than that and consulting with Benson and DiStefano, it looks like this is all Bohn, and his future will depend on this as well.

It seems Bronco Mendenhall may have interviewed Sunday for the position. It sounds like he is tired of BYU and ready for a change.  He is the defensive guy they are looking at, and he is probably second choice behind Jones right now, so he may have to wait on that decision.

Butch Jones is the hot candidate and he was in West Lafayette for only four hours Sunday to interview and discuss details of the Purdue job. However, he and his wife did leave and are on their way to Colorado to see about the Buffs.  He run-oriented, hurry-up spread offense would be a great one to run at altitude and there just might be enough talent existent to get it started if Dillon can understand it.  It appears that CU is his to take or leave.  His agent, former NFLer Trace Armstrong said his client will make his decision quickly-whether it be Purdue, CU or take another extension and raise at Cincinnati.

Mick McCall, Northwestern offensive coordianator, has been mentioned here and there, but supposedly Wildcat chat boards were afire this weekend that he was headed to Colorado.

I have not seen anything new about San Jose State's Mike MacIntyre or Fresno State's Tim DeRuyter, who might be Bohn's next tier guys, or nothing at all.  I don't think that there are any other names that we can take seriously right now.
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  1. Buff ManDecember 3, 2012 at 8:46 AM

    Finally I have been able to swallow and digest the pill of Embree's departure and the disgraceful way it was all handled. Time to move forward. Now I just want Bohnhead to get this hire right. Go Buffs!

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