CU just does not care enough about winning football games. Few if any future teams will be great. Not very many high school kids in Colorado are Division One capable. CU Boulder is great for Snow sports, cross-country jogging, sports medicine, and non-contact sports and the great out doors. It just is not football territory. Summer time inner tubing on Boulder Creek: fantastic. The talent rich low income states have got great football. Colorado is more oriented towards LaCross.
Surprise, surprise for them when they got to Boulder and found out the residents were more like Paul McCartney from his Yellow Submarine days than Bill McCartney the future Promise Keeper!