Renck: Bill McCartney gave lost CU Buffs football program direction, and it was breathtaking to behold As a student journalist from 1989-93, I saw a program at its pinnacle ...

Bill McCartney goes it alone these days — or at least without his wife of 50 years, Lyndi, who died in March. The College Football Hall of Fame coach is learning his way around the kitchen.

One of the most prominent bigots in recent Colorado history is a man named Bill McCartney. The peak of his anti-LGBTQ+ hate came in 1992, when he emerged a key proponent of Amendment 2, which ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Bill McCartney, who coached Colorado to its only football national championship in 1990, has died. He was 84. McCartney died Friday night “after a courageous journey with ...

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 ...

Bill McCartney in 1989. Tony Tomsic /Sports Illustrated via Getty “I am very saddened at the passing of Coach Mac,” said Colorado athletic director Rick George, who remained lifelong friends ...

Mike McCartney, son of former University of Colorado Boulder Head Football Coach Bill McCartney, speaks about his father during a memorial at the CU Events Center on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025.

College Football Hall of Fame Coach Bill McCartney passed away peacefully with family members by his side shortly after 9 pm Friday evening, Colorado Historian David Plati informed members of the ...

Former CU football Head Coach Bill McCartney speaks to the media during an event on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, celebrating his recent election into the College Hall of Fame.