He may be in a neck-and-neck race with Virginia’s Al Groh for the right to plop down on the hottest coaching seat in college football, but Colorado’s Dan Hawkins is not having or hearing any of the firing talk that’s enveloped Boulder.
Hell, Hawkins is instead going in the opposite direction, expressing 100% confidence in the direction the football program is headed and how it has been constructed.
Of course, that would be same 0-2 football program he currently presides over that got thumped by in-state rival Colorado State and embarrassed by MAC member Toledo in consecutive weeks. After losing seven of the last nine games in 2008.
“I always feel secure,” Hawkins said. “We’re doing things right. We’re doing things the way we’re supposed to be doing them, I know that. As a football team. In the weight room. In academics. Discipline-wise and in the structure of who we are and where we are at the University of Colorado.
“I have 100 percent confidence in that, 100 percent confidence. You have to control what you can control. And I know we’re doing that.
Of course, when an article appears in a local paper stating, basically, the coach can’t be fired due to the financial climate at the school and the immense buyout built into the coach’s contract, I guess you can understand said coach displaying a bit of hubris.
