Some were huggers. Some were handshakers. Some were hip. Some were total Twitterphobes. Darian Hagan served all kinds, having been tasked with selling the Colorado Buffs football program for five different head coaches over the past 14 years as either an assistant coach or a support staffer.
Mel Tucker?
Different cat.
“When Coach (Gary) Barnett was here, we were recruiting nationwide,” Hagan, currently CU’s running backs coach, said of Tucker, CU’s first-year football boss. “When Coach Hawk (Dan Hawkins) was here, he kept it the same. When coach Mac (Mike MacIntyre) was here, he scaled back; he didn’t want to recruit nationally, so we picked places that were really good to us.