When Mel Tucker took over as Colorado’s football coach, he didn’t think Nebraska would be a topic of conversation. In fact, the red capital of the world has been a rather sore subject for the SEC transplant over the past seven months.
“There are in-state kids here who don’t care a thing about CU, so it’s a sell job,” Tucker recently told The Denver Post. “It’s like, you’ve got to win games before they’ll even consider you. I’ve been through that before; that’s just how it is. There are kids right now that you (ask), ‘Well, who are your top (teams)?