BOULDER — With the Colorado football team buried by an avalanche of losses so deep the coach’s job is at risk, what Mike MacIntyre needs most is a shovel. Instead, MacIntyre chose a different tool. He grabbed a photograph of a snow-covered buffalo stuck in a blizzard of trouble.
Say what?
“The buffalo is the only animal that walks into the storm. All the rest of them run,” MacIntyre said Tuesday, as whispers of his imminent demise as CU’s coach swirled.
To drive home his never-surrender point to journalists that pushed asparagus spears around plates during the coach’s weekly press luncheon, MacIntyre held up a framed photo of a hairy, half-frozen beast that had been taken off a wall in his office.