Football
Rick George was introduced as CU’s sixth full-time athletic director on July 17, succeeding Mike Bohn.
Mike MacIntyre was named CU’s 25th head football coach on Dec. 10.
CU went into August preseason camp trying to settle on a starting quarterback among three primary contenders — third-year sophomore Nick Hirschman and transfers Connor Wood from University of Texas and Jordan Webb from University of Kansas.
Ideally, spring practices are supposed to resolve many issues for a college football team. But for CU, the spring produced almost as many questions as answers.
Columnist Paul Danish discusses traumatic head injuries with All-American guard/linebacker and Rhodes Scholar, Joe Romig.
Like Bill McCartney experienced while coaching Jon Embree, Embree began his head coaching career at Colorado with one win in his first nine games.
Cheering on players amid sun, rain, snow and bitter cold, twins Betty Fitzgerald Hoover and Peggy Fitzgerald Coppom may hold the record for attending the most CU sports games ever.
When he received the offer in December to become the University of Colorado Boulder’s 24th head football coach, Jon Embree was prepared. Oh, was he ever prepared.
Football numbers and statistics from the Summer 2011 issue.