In recent years, the Colorado football team has had trouble luring the top in-state high school players to Boulder.
With a determination to change that, the Buffaloes landed two of the best on Sunday.
Cherry Creek High School teammates Jonathan Van Diest and Dante Sparaco both gave verbal commitments to the Buffs, getting CU off to an early start on its 2017 class.
"I was going to commit before senior year no matter what," Van Diest said, "so I think the reason I committed early was that this felt like the right place to be. It felt like home.