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Friday, December 16, 2016
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WEATHER: Umatilla
Colorado’s MacIntyre wins AP Coach of the Year scrambling to schedule a
No. 4 Washington — since
pair of games next week
2005, when they were in the
College Football
By PAT GRAHAM
Associated Press
BOULDER, Colo. —
Mike MacIntyre has the
reputation as a turnaround
artist. Give him a program,
any program, and he will
transform it.
Colorado, though, had
the looks of being the sort
of program that not even
MacIntyre could fix.
After three years that
resulted in a grand total of 10
victories, MacIntyre led the
11th-ranked Buffaloes to a
10-win season, a spot in the
Pac-12 Championship game
and even onto the fringes
of the national-title conver-
sation for a week or two.
Colorado also will make its
first bowl appearance since
2007.
For that, MacIntyre
is The Associated Press
college football Coach of the
Year. He received 109 points
and 25 first-place votes from
the AP college football poll
panel, while Penn State’s
James Franklin was second
with 98 and 16. Alabama’s
Nick Saban was third with
57 and 13.
“We played a lot of young
guys and they worked hard
and got better,” explained
MacIntyre, who became the
first Colorado coach to win
the award since it began
in 1998. “They grew into
their talent and kept right on
going.”
To comprehend just how
far Colorado has come, it’s
important to know where
the Buffaloes were before
MacIntyre arrived. In 2012,
they led the nation in games
started by true freshmen,
AP Photo/Ben Margot, File
In this Oct. 22, 2016, file photo, Colorado coach Mike
MacIntyre, center, leads his team in warm up exercises
before a game against Stanford, in Stanford, Calif.
got outscored by a 552-214
margin and lost a school-high
11 games that ultimately cost
coach Jon Embree his job.
MacIntyre realized he
was inheriting a program
that had fallen on hard times.
But the depths of that decline
caught him off guard.
MacIntyre
gradually
revamped the program —
just like he did at San Jose
State when he inherited
a 2-10 squad and in three
seasons turned the Spartans
into a double-digit win team.
All he needed was time
and a chance to develop
his talent. After going 2-25
in conference games over
his first three seasons at
Colorado, some publications
listed him on the hot seat
heading into the season.
Now, he’s one of the
hottest coaches in the busi-
ness.
“The Rise” — as Colo-
rado has labeled it — has
been no surprise to his
players. They bought in
from the beginning. Take
junior running back Phillip
Lindsay. He was recruited
by the previous regime and
didn’t know if his scholar-
ship would still be honored
after suffering a serious knee
injury in high school.
MacIntyre visited him
and assured Lindsay that one
day he would play a role in
leading this team back to
prominence. Lindsay rushed
for 1,189 yards and 16 scores
this season. He won’t forget
that trust from MacIntyre.
He believed. His team-
mates believed — even as
the Buffaloes struggled.
“Rome wasn’t built in
one day. He just needed time
to build a program,” Lindsay
said. “He’s a big reason we
are where we are today.”
And that’s a program
trending in the right direc-
tion — with big crowds
showing up again at Folsom
Field. They appeared in
their first conference title
game — losing 41-10 to
Big 12. They’re also heading
to the Alamo Bowl against
Oklahoma State — with a
chance to become just the
fourth team in school history
to win 11 games.
“We’ve been making
steps. Some of them were
baby steps, but we were
moving forward,” said
MacIntyre, whose late father,
George MacIntyre, was the
coach at Vanderbilt from
1979 to 1985. “We weren’t
going backward at all.”
This helped, too —
upgrades to the athletic facil-
ities, including a new indoor
practice field. Recently,
MacIntyre took the team
over to their old digs, just
as a reminder of how far
they’ve come.
“Those young freshmen
were like, ‘What’s this?”’
MacIntyre recounted. “You
can’t kick it high, the lights
are weird. But this is what it
was for us all the time.
“There might be some
times we go back down there
and do some morning drills
like we used to and make
them realize how nice we’ve
got it.”
MacIntyre’s always been
an emotional coach. After a
win at Oregon, MacIntyre
hugged his son Jay, a soph-
omore receiver, as he wiped
away tears. His players
appreciate that side of him.
“A lot of ups and downs,
a lot of heartbreaks, a lot of
happy times, a lot of crying
over the years,” Lindsay
said. “We are a figure of him.
Now, you’re seeing the final
product.
Rock are scheduled to host
preseason tournaments this
weekend, though as of press
time both tournaments are
still on.
Hermiston boys and girs
basketball is also supposed
to be in action on Saturday,
with the boys hosting Hills-
boro and the girls traveling
to Hillsboro. But Herm-
iston athletic director Larry
Usher said that both games
would likely be canceled
or moved to a later date,
though a decision hadn’t
yet been made.
But the weather hasn’t
just affected the basketball
teams either. Pendleton
and Hermiston’s swim
teams had its season debut
meet in Baker wiped out
last week due to weather,
and this weekend’s trips to
both La Grande and Bend
are in serious doubt again.
And for teams that only
had six scheduled meets
before districts, the athletes
are missing out on valuable
competition time in regula-
tion-sized pools and could
play a factor when it comes
time for districts and state
qualifications.
It’s hard to tell just
how much of an effect this
unusual weather system
will have on area teams
down the stretch runs of
their respective seasons,
but it’s safe to say it’s worth
keeping an eye on.
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nament has already been
pushed back one day and
as of now will run Saturday
through Monday, though
the coach did say there
was a chance it could be
scrapped altogether.
“But that would be
brutal for us,” he said.
Both Umatilla boys and
girls basketball teams were
supposed to be one game
into a three-day Union
Christmas
Tournament
starting on Thursday, but
school cancellations and
bad road conditions nixed
the trip for the Vikings.
Now, Umatilla boys coach
Derek Lete says that the
teams are trying to line up
one or two games to play
next week with some other
local teams to make up for
it.
“Losing three games
this weekend is kind of a
big chunk of the seasons
for us,” he said, “but us not
having school next week
hopefully will make it
easier to get someone else
scheduled.”
The Stanfield boys
basketball team is also one
that has been affected a bit
by the closures and cancel-
lations, as the team has
now missed practice two
straight days. Coach Jason
Sperr said that coupling
canceled practices with the
delayed start of the season
due to football success, his
team has had just six full
practices altogether now
three weeks into the season.
Both Stanfield and Pilot
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