Is this the biggest offseason of Tad Boyle's coaching career at the University of Colorado?
The Buffaloes' leader would probably tell you they're all equally important, with the identical goals requiring the identical amount of hard work over the course of each and every spring and summer.
In theory, that's true. The idea always is to train as if aspiring to win championships, whether that's a feasible goal or not. Yet not all teams are created equally, and in the balance of roster makeup against projected expectations, it's easy to classify the next five-plus months ahead of the opening practices of the 2019-20 preseason as the most important offseason stretch of Boyle's tenure.