In the early 1990s, Kurt Roper was a player at Rice University, sitting in a meeting with his fellow quarterbacks and feeling lost as he listened to offensive coordinator Mike Heimerdinger.
“He was going over defensive football and I’m going, ‘Hey, I don’t know what you’re talking about and this is over my head,'” Roper recalled recently. “As a player, I really didn’t take the initiative to learn it.”
A quarter century later, Roper is trying to teach the quarterbacks at Colorado what he wished he had learned as a player.
Entering his first season as CU’s quarterbacks coach, Roper, who was hired in January, is already making a big impact on the Buffs.