My Life as a CU Buffalo
Football Fan

CU Boulder is a party school. It always has been, and it always will be.

Let me be honest with you. I think CU Boulder is a party school. It always has been and it always will be. And I say that with no judgment at all. It is simply part of the character of the place, and honestly, it is part of what made those years so memorable for so many of us.

But here is the thing. A party school can still be a place of real substance. It can still be a gorgeous campus. It can still hold a university with a rich and remarkable history. Those things are not in conflict. They coexist, the way they always have in Boulder.

And the campus, my goodness, is it gorgeous. If you have ever walked the grounds of CU Boulder, you know exactly what I mean. The Flatirons rising up behind everything, the red-tiled roofs, the old stone and brick buildings. It is one of the most beautiful places in Colorado, and I have spent my whole career helping people fall in love with this town.

The Heritage Center in Old Main tells the University's rich history

If you want to understand why CU matters, spend some time at the Heritage Center in Old Main. That building is where the University's rich history lives. It tells the story of everything this place has been through, the people who built it, the moments that shaped it, and the culture that grew up around it.

I have always loved that about CU. Beneath the party-school reputation and the football Saturdays, there is a deep and genuine history. The Heritage Center is the best place to feel it. It grounds you in what this university really is, beyond the noise and the tailgates and the cup fights.

Today, spending money on expensive coaches like Coach Prime seems comical to me

Now, I want to be careful here, because I do not want to sound ungrateful or unkind. But I have to share my honest perspective. Today, watching the University try to spend its way to a great football program, bringing in expensive coaches like Coach Prime, seems comical to me.

Not because Coach Prime is a bad coach, and not because the effort is wrong. It just feels like the University is looking for the answer in the wrong place. We already had the answer. We had it back in 1990, and it did not come from a big contract or a famous name. It came from something far more powerful.

You cannot buy what we had. You can only receive it as a gift.

My years in the Folsom Field student section

I have to be honest that I have limited knowledge about what makes a great team. I am not a football strategist, and I never pretended to be one. What I know is what I lived, and what I lived was the student section at Folsom Stadium from 1986 to 1989.

I was there with my sorority sisters, cheering on Ralphie, the live running buffalo mascot, and the Buffs. We survived the famous cup fights, that chaotic ritual that would break out across the stands. And I was handed up once, over the crowd, luckily. I still laugh about it. Those were wild, wonderful, unforgettable Saturdays.

In those years, I was in the stands for the rise of it all. I watched a program come together, a coach pour his heart in, and a young quarterback named Sal Aunese lead with everything he had. I did not fully understand what I was witnessing then. I was just a kid in the student section, living in the moment.

It wasn't until I saw this movie years later that it all clicked

For years, I carried the memory of those seasons without really understanding them. I knew we had won, and I knew it felt special, but I could not have told you why.

It wasn't until I saw a movie years later that it all clicked. That film told the story of those years, of Sal Aunese and Coach Mac and everything that happened between them. And as I watched, the pieces finally came together in my heart.

This is the movie that changed my understanding of it all:

Watching it, I finally saw what I had lived without recognizing. God brought Sal Aunese and Coach Mac together for such a time as that. Their bond, their faith, their shared purpose, it was all part of a plan bigger than football. And when I saw it laid out in front of me, I understood why we won.

Faith and purpose, on the field and in business

You might wonder what any of this has to do with real estate, or with Tactics4Agents. It has everything to do with it. Because the same truth that explains that championship is the truth that underpins everything I teach.

With God, all things are possible. That is Matthew 19:26, and it is the mission statement of everything I do. It is why I believe a real estate business can be built on prayer, positivity, and faith. It is why I know that the power in any endeavor, football or business, comes not from the tactics alone but from the hearts of the people behind them.

The Buffs did not win because they had the most money or the flashiest approach. They won because God brought the right people together for such a time as that, and because a movement of faith was making men out of mice. That is the same foundation I build my coaching on, and it is the same foundation I believe can transform any agent's business.