Keeler: CU Buffs players, staff gave standing ovation at legendary coach Bill McCartney’s memorial service. It was for Peach Pagano, Mac’s friend to the end
If they handed out Heismans for selfless hearts, Archie Griffin would be eating Peach Pagano’s dust. “I was bawling down there,” Pagano told me Wednesday, not long after the last chords of the public ...
Late CU Buffs legend Bill McCartney made impact on fellow coaches
Buff Nation will never forget the man who led CU to the greatest run of success in the program’s history. Those who coached ...
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Former CU Buffs players mourn loss of Coach Mac
In recent years, Colorado legendary quarterback Darian Hagan had seen his mentor and former coach, Bill McCartney, decline in health. When the call came on Friday night that McCartney had died ...
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Bill McCartney, who coached Colorado to its only football national championship in 1990, has died
Derek’s brother, T.C. McCartney, was a quarterback at LSU and is the son of late Colorado quarterback Sal Aunese, who played for Bill McCartney in 1987 and ’88 before being diagnosed with ...