CU hires MacAttack

It was a crazy last few weeks for CU football fans, followers, former players, current players, staff, etc.  First the team has the worst season ever.  Loses every game in Folsom for the the first time ever.  Poor results and the "trajectory" of the program shows the AD and others in CU that they need to go with a new staff and Embree is fired.  It has hints or racism thrown out by it's former coach and Coach Mac rather than saying, hey, you were the worse head coach CU has ever had and things were getting worse and not better and no signs showed towards improvement and we couldn't wait around another year and continue to HOPE, we needed to go FORWARD and CHANGE.  LOL, Obama headliners thrown out in one sentence, pat on back.  Then the Butch Jones dilemma, former players bitching and then all quiet on the Rocky Mountain front and then welcome Coach Mac (the real Mac since the other coach was Really Coach Mc).

I like the hire for a few reasons.
1.  The guy wanted to be here and wanted a bigger challenge
2.  He seems to have big aspirations on rebuilding the prominence that CU had.
3.  He didn't talk about it being his dream job, so I believe he has aspirations to make the program so good he gets to coach in most conferences dream job, the SEC where he is from.  Anyone think it would be ironic if he took over for Butch Jones in 3 years at Tennessee? :)
4.  He wants to run an offense that isn't old and stagnant in college football, the Pistol.  The pistol is a combination of Spread and the Ace formation in my opinion.  Running is key but instead of HAVING to have a speedster at QB, you just need a good blocking scheme and a back that can make one cut and go like in the zone-read running game. 
5.  He has actually started from scratch rather than taking over successful programs like Butch Jones did.
6.  He has coached at different levels under great coaches and been recognized for being amongst the best assistants in the country. 
7.  He has CA ties and emphasizes the important of CA here.  I love Colorado.  I am a Colorado native, but the football played here compared to CA isn't close.  The athletes here are not the same.  I believe there are a handful of guys that can help contribute to a CU anually but CUs best players in their history tend to be from out of state.  And a lot of their best players came from Cali.
8.  His former teams two losses came in close games against Stanford and Texas A & M, both Top 10 football teams this year.  I can not do anything but applaud that.  I would have supported Embree staying another year but his team wasn't competitive most of the time. 

I believe CU has more to work with and with the facility improvements ahead, I believe will continue to have even greater things to work with.  Their facilities currently are not great but they aren't crap like they were compared to the Big XII powers.  CU is going to get better and I believe the second choice (or however far down he was) will prove to be a great choice.