A year ago, when Colorado men’s basketball head coach Tad Boyle addressed the media following each mounting loss during his team’s 16-18 campaign, I saw a look all too familiar—all too painful.
Throughout the most frustrating year of Boyle’s first six seasons in Boulder, he watched collapse after collapse. Failed experiment after failed experiment. Like many of those that make up the millennial masses of his fan base, sick of toiling in anguish over their failed Tinder dates, it became clear that Tad was, simply, over it.
But with the end of the 2015 postseason—though the CBI felt much more like a post-mortem—came the birds of spring in Colorado, where even the most jaded of college basketball coaches or singles done with mingling can find rejuvenation.