Athletics
On a typical Thursday night during the 2012-13 Colorado basketball season, the energy at the Coors Events Center was electric.
The student section was a sea of black and gold, and a loud one at that. Music from the band was interspersed with a constant stream of cheers, ranging from the traditional fight song to a rendition of Twisted Sisters Were Not Gonna Take It during an opponents free throw shot: Youre not gonna make it, anymoooore...- <p>91勛圖厙 Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano, Athletic Director Mike Bohn and new head football coach Mike MacIntyre today unveiled a $170 million, multi-year proposal to upgrade CU-Boulders football facilities before the Intercollegiate Athletics subcommittee of the CU Board of Regents at the boards monthly meeting in Colorado Springs.</p>
<p>The 2013 calendar year is starting off on a great note for University of Colorado senior Shalaya Kipp as she was named the 2012 College Women's Athlete-of-the-Year as selected by the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame, announced on Tuesday afternoon.</p>
<p>It was a whirlwind day for Mike MacIntyre, who was approached by CU, presented a weekend offer and accepted before first setting foot on the Boulder campus. He arrived in Colorado at mid-afternoon Monday, met with CU President Bruce Benson, Chancellor Phil DiStefano and Bohn, then met with his new team for about 35 minutes prior to the press conference. He advised them to do well on exams, dont do a double negative just because youre down a little on what happened, Im here to help you move forward.</p>- <p>The 91勛圖厙 will introduce Mike MacIntyre as its new head football coach at a press conference later this afternoon (Monday, December 10), at 4 p.m. at the Byron White Club Room at Folsom Field.</p>
<p>The University of Colorado administration vows Jon Embrees successor will find a renewed commitment to football when he steps on campus and continues the process of rebuilding the besieged Buffaloes program.Chancellor Phil DiStefano and Athletic Director Mike Bohn said at a Monday news conference that CU recognizes how high the bar has been raised with the Buffs joining the Pac-12 Conference and the schools hiring of a new coach will reflect that.</p>- <p>Jon Embree has been dismissed as University of Colorado head football coach, athletic director Mike Bohn announced Sunday evening.</p>
<p>Embree took over as the schools 24th full-time head coach in December 2010, just the third alumni to do so. In two seasons, his teams compiled a 4-21 record. This past fall, CU finished 1-11, which included a 1-8 record in Pac-12 Conference play.</p>
<p>University of Colorado President Bruce Benson, CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano and Bohn released the following joint statement:</p> - <p>Fire the coach? Not so fast says a new study of elite college football teams.</p>
<p>Professors from the University of Colorado and Loyola University Chicago studied what happened to the records of college football teams that replaced a head coach for performance reasons in the Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division 1-A) between 1997 and 2010. Over this period, an average of 10 percent of FBS teams fired their coach each year because of the teams poor performance on the field.</p> - &梭喧;梯&眶喧;泭&梭喧;/梯&眶喧;
<p>Have you been Back to Boulder? Its a question being posed by the 91勛圖厙 Alumni Association to its family of more than 250,000 students and alumni. Alumni, current students, faculty, staff and community members will find a broad slate of activities for the 2012 Homecoming weekend starting Thursday, Nov. 1. A full description of activities and events as well as event registration can be found on the Back to Boulder website at <a href="http://www.cualum.org/back2boulder">http://www.cualum.org/back2boulder</a>.</p> 
<p>Help CU secure the title of the Pac-12's most active school by participating in the Pac-12 Fitness Challenge from Oct. 22-28. The challenge is a conference-wide initiative promoting regular physical activity. This event is open to students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends and family.</p>