BOULDER, Colo. — With practice finished, the players gather near midfield and take a knee. In a few more days, they’ll play the first of four November games that could turn a good season into something much more — which for this football program is a new and unusual circumstance. Mike MacIntyre’s parting message is simple.
“These games are gonna be more fun than you’ve had, I promise you,” the coach tells them. “Keep enjoying it. Keep enjoying it.”
Anyone who’s been associated with Colorado football these last few years — and this goes especially for those players from MacIntyre’s first recruiting class of February 2013 — gets the connection to an analogy the coach made back then.