BOULDER — It’s just after 10 a.m. on a cool late-summer morning in Boulder and I’m sitting across from Tad Boyle in his office, beneath wall-hanging murals of past Colorado basketball greats. There are the names and faces of those you’d expect, along with Alec Burks.
Burks was the first star of Boyle’s tenure in Boulder, the first Buff that Boyle held a postseason press conference with to announce an impending departure for the NBA. Seeing the framed still of him driving towards the basket reminds me that, somehow, it’s been nearly six and a half years since he arrived in Boulder and accepted the head coaching job from then-Athletic Director, Mike Bohn.