It was thought that the next head coach at Colorado would have ties to the university. It was further thought that Eric Bieniemy was the presumptive front-runner.
While the former appears to be the case, the latter apparently wasn’t. Or isn’t.
While there’s no official word yet from the school, former CU head coach Bill McCartney has told the Denver Post that Jon Embree has been offered the Buffaloes’ head coaching job. Embree, the Washington Redskins tight ends coach and former CU player, is currently said to be weighing the offer.
McCartney, who last coached at Colorado in 1994 but was nonetheless considered a candidate this time around, said he hopes Embree will accept the reported offer.
“It was never about me doing it again,” McCartney told the Post. “It was about setting the table for a black man to come in (as head coach). And he (Mike Bohn) hired one. Now, give him a chance.”
I’ll leave it to others more qualified than I to discuss the apparent racial tinges to the search process, but will continue to focus on the following: Colorado is willing to hand over the reins of a moribund football program on the precipice of a move to the Pac-10 to a coach that has been neither a head coach or a coordinator at any level.
Black or white -- or black & gold for that matter -- that’s just asinine, at least on the surface.
UPDATED 2:49 p.m. ET: According to ESPN.com, Colorado has denied that they have “offered the job to anyone at this point.”