The most important pieces that could lead to immediate success for the Colorado football team didn't arrive on Wednesday.
It was a somewhat jarring sense of calm at CU for national signing day, the annual February hope-fest that has been rendered anti-climactic thanks to the new early signing day the NCAA implemented this year in December.
Coach Mike MacIntyre and his staff signed the bulk of the latest batch of new Buffaloes seven weeks ago, with nine of them having already enrolled for the spring semester. Since that early signing date, MacIntyre added three new assistants to his staff — cornerbacks coach Ashley Ambrose, who signed up for his second tour of duty in Boulder; defensive line coach Kwahn Drake; and quarterbacks coach Kurt Roper.