Jump into your closest time machine and go back a month in time to Mike MacIntyre’s press conference following the team’s embarrassing senior day loss and you’ll hear a lot of excuses, words of mediocrity, and how he could’ve left the program for “three good places,” following the team’s 2016 run.
Instead of talking about what went wrong in the defeat (CU’s sixth in a row at the time), he talked about what a great job he’s done with the football team in his eyes - getting them a few more wins a season to where they’re competing for a bid to a meaningless bowl game, and how the season could’ve been completely different if a few plays went their way.