Posts Tagged ‘Eddie Crowder’

Colorado 28, Colorado State 14

//posted 9.17.2011

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Senior quarterback Tyler Hansen was in on all four Colorado touchdowns, as the Buffs doubled up the Colorado State Rams in Denver, 28-14. In leading the Buffs to the first win of the Jon Embree era, Hansen threw for two touchdowns and ran for two others, including a two-yard run to cap an epic 16-play, 85-yard drive in the fourth quarter to put the game out of reach.

No. 21 Wisconsin – Baptism by Fire

//posted 9.2.1995

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— Camp Rick For his part, Rick Neuheisel, who at 34 was the second youngest head coach in Division 1-A college football (Louisville’s Ron Cooper was all of four days younger), entered Fall Camp, 1995, with optimism and confidence. “I’m prepared for whatever comes along,” said Neuheisel in a pre-season interview with Sports Illustrated. “But I’m not going to over prepare for failure.” The safe road would have been to maintain as much continuity in the program as possible. After all, the players in Boulder were talented; the program in …

K-State – Coach Mac receives a contract extension: “Belief without evidence”

//posted 11.17.1984

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— November 17th – at Kansas State Kansas State 38, Colorado 6 — Kansas State offered the Buffs several opportunities. The first was to finish sixth in the Big Eight, ahead of both Kansas State and Iowa State. The second was to avoid the indignity of joining the 1980 squad as the only ten-loss Colorado team’s in school history. Finally, the game provided the Buffs and their coach the chance to give Coach McCartney and the 1985 Buffs something to build on. None of these opportunities, though, came to fruition, as …

The Hiring of Bill McCartney – The Unlikely Choice

//posted 6.9.1982

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Forty years ago, in June, 1982, an unknown defensive coordinator from Michigan was hired as CU head coach … Replacing the departed Chuck Fairbanks, here’s the story of the hiring of Coach Mac … McCartney went 7-25-1 his first three seasons, before going on to become CU’s all-time winningest coach …

May, 1982 – Fair Weather Fairbanks – “The End of an Error”

//posted 5.31.1982

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— Fair weather Fairbanks — Despite compiling a 7-26 record over three seasons, and recording Colorado’s first string of three consecutive losing campaigns in almost twenty years, head coach Chuck Fairbanks still had a job as the 1981 season came to a close. With this record, when combined with the off the field difficulties the program had endured, few would have been shocked if Fairbanks had been sent on his way. Still, athletic director Eddie Crowder remained loyal to his coach. As things turned out, it was Fairbanks who was …