On Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, I made an appointment to meet with former Colorado football coach Bill McCartney at a Starbucks inside a Safeway supermarket near Denver. I was a reporter with USA ...

If Colorado ever meets Nebraska on a football field again, it won’t feel as important anymore because Bill McCartney won’t be there to watch it. As part of CU’s football recovery ...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Bill McCartney, who coached Colorado to its only football national championship in 1990, has died. He was 84. The charismatic figure known as Coach Mac died Friday night ...

The Colorado Buffaloes posthumously paid tribute to the legendary former head coach Bill McCartney. McCartney passed away on January 10 at the age of 84 after a long battle with dementia.

By Alex Traub Bill McCartney, a football coach who in the 1980s took the University of Colorado from perennial losers to national champions, but who later left behind his $350,000 annual salary to ...

Members of the McCartney family knew the day was coming. Bill McCartney died on Jan. 10 at the age of 84 after a long battle with dementia and his son, Mike, said this week, “I thought I was ...

Bill McCartney came to Boulder in 1982 with a goal of turning around a struggling football program at the University of Colorado. He did that and so much more, impacting the lives of hundreds of ...

Bill McCartney, who coached Colorado to its only football national championship and founded Promise Keepers, an evangelical Christian group for “godly men,” died Jan. 10 in Boulder ...

(Photo by Cliff Grassmick/Daily Camera) Former CU coach Bill McCartney and his wife Lyndi McCartney. University of Colorado Head Football Coach Bill McCartney with quarterbacks Koy Detmer ...

Years before his recent death, former Colorado football coach Bill McCartney had a memorable conversation with a reporter ...