Mike MacIntyre Named 2016 Walter Camp Coach of the Year
December 01, 2016 | Football
Mike MacIntyre becomes the second CU coach in history to be named national coach of the year
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – University of Colorado head coach Mike MacIntyre has been named the Walter Camp 2016 Coach of the Year, the Walter Camp Foundation (WCF) announced Thursday.
MacIntyre joins Bill McCartney (1989) as the only coaches in Colorado history to be named the National Coach of the Year.
"It is an honor to receive the Walter Camp Coach of the Year award, but this all reflects on our assistant coaches and our players and how they've invested in our program for us to be able to be successful," MacIntyre said Thursday as the team prepares to head off to Santa Clara, Calif., for Friday's Pac-12 Championship game against No. 4 Washington (7 p.m. MT/FOX).
"I'm just fortunate enough to have head coach in front of my name and be along for the ride. This is special considering it is voted on by other head coaches, that truly means a lot to me coming from my peers."
This is the 50th year that the WCF has selected a coach of the year, considered to be one of the most prestigious honors as the recipient is selected by his peers (selected by the nation's 129 FBS head coaches and sports information directors). In the 50 years of the award, MacIntyre is just the sixth to be recognized from the Mountain or Pacific Time zones, as he joined Frank Kush (Arizona State, 1975), Fisher DeBerry (Air Force, 1985), CU's first coach Mac (1989), Bruce Snyder (Arizona State, 1996) and Chip Kelly (Oregon, 2010).
The honor for MacIntyre comes on the heels of being named the Pac-12 Conference Coach of the Year on Tuesday.
The Buffaloes, picked to finish dead last in the Pac-12's South Division preseason poll after going 5-40 in conference play in CU's first five seasons since joining the conference, won the South this season with a 8-1 league record to reach Friday's title game. The 8-1 mark in league play is the first eight-win season in school history (several 7-0's and 7-1's).
Overall, MacIntyre's Buffs sit at 10-2 entering the championship game. It is CU's eighth 10-win season in its storied history, and first since 2001.
The turnaround from last season to this year is one of the finest in major college football history.
The Buffaloes have become the ninth team since 1972 in the current Power-5 landscape to win 10 or more games after finishing the previous season with four or fewer wins (1972 was the year freshman became eligible to play in NCAA Division I football, thus defining the modern era). Colorado finished the 2015 season with a 4-9 record, but currently stand at 10-2 overall this year and ranked No. 8 in the most recent College Football Playoff rankings. The six-game improvement from last year to this currently sits as the fourth-best turnaround among those nine teams to go from a four-win season to 10-wins in just one year (CU actually has done it twice, doing so in 2001 under head coach Gary Barnett).
Colorado under MacIntyre and staff has performed at a high level on both sides of the ball this season. CU ranks 13th in the country and No. 1 in the Pac-12 in total defense, allowing just 323.8 yards per game while offensively the Buffs are 29th in the FBS by averaging 469.9 yards per game.
CU has registered six games this year putting up over 500 yards of offense, tying the school record for most 500-plus yard games in a season.
Defensively, CU is one of just eight schools in the country who have more turnovers gained that touchdowns allowed. The Buffs have given up just 23 touchdowns to opposing offenses (only 10 rushing, 13 passing), but have 26 takeaways on the season. Colorado ranks sixth in the country in turnovers gained and is eighth in turnover margin (+0.83).
On Oct. 22, Colorado became bowl eligible for the first time since 2007 after beating Stanford, 10–5. Two weeks later, CU clinched its first winning season since 2005 with a 20–10 victory over UCLA. Last Saturday on Nov. 26, the Buffaloes defeated Utah, 27-22, and clinched their first Pac-12 South Division title.
A native of Miami, Fla., MacIntyre attended Vanderbilt where he played two seasons in the defensive backfield, and ultimately graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in business management. He went on to earn a master's degree in sports management at University of Georgia.
He has served as an assistant coach at both the collegiate and professional levels, including stints at Ole Miss, Duke, the Dallas Cowboys and New York Jets. He was hired to his first collegiate head coaching position at San Jose State in 2010, and he led the Spartans to a bowl appearance and their first-ever top 25 final national ranking (No. 24) in 2012.
He was named head coach at Colorado on Dec. 10, 2012.
MacIntyre, along with the members of the 2016 Walter Camp All-America team and other major award winners, will be honored at the organization's national awards banquet, presented by First Niagara Bank, on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017 at the Yale University Commons in New Haven.
Walter Camp, "The Father of American football," first selected an All-America team in 1889. Camp – a former Yale University athlete and football coach – is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side.
The Walter Camp Football Foundation – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team.
The Walter Camp Football Foundation is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA). The NCFAA was founded in 1997 as a coalition of the major collegiate football awards to protect, preserve and enhance the integrity, influence and prestige of the game's predominant awards. The NCFAA encourages professionalism and the highest standards for the administration of its member awards and the selection of their candidates and recipients.
MacIntyre joins Bill McCartney (1989) as the only coaches in Colorado history to be named the National Coach of the Year.
"It is an honor to receive the Walter Camp Coach of the Year award, but this all reflects on our assistant coaches and our players and how they've invested in our program for us to be able to be successful," MacIntyre said Thursday as the team prepares to head off to Santa Clara, Calif., for Friday's Pac-12 Championship game against No. 4 Washington (7 p.m. MT/FOX).
"I'm just fortunate enough to have head coach in front of my name and be along for the ride. This is special considering it is voted on by other head coaches, that truly means a lot to me coming from my peers."
This is the 50th year that the WCF has selected a coach of the year, considered to be one of the most prestigious honors as the recipient is selected by his peers (selected by the nation's 129 FBS head coaches and sports information directors). In the 50 years of the award, MacIntyre is just the sixth to be recognized from the Mountain or Pacific Time zones, as he joined Frank Kush (Arizona State, 1975), Fisher DeBerry (Air Force, 1985), CU's first coach Mac (1989), Bruce Snyder (Arizona State, 1996) and Chip Kelly (Oregon, 2010).
The honor for MacIntyre comes on the heels of being named the Pac-12 Conference Coach of the Year on Tuesday.
The Buffaloes, picked to finish dead last in the Pac-12's South Division preseason poll after going 5-40 in conference play in CU's first five seasons since joining the conference, won the South this season with a 8-1 league record to reach Friday's title game. The 8-1 mark in league play is the first eight-win season in school history (several 7-0's and 7-1's).
Overall, MacIntyre's Buffs sit at 10-2 entering the championship game. It is CU's eighth 10-win season in its storied history, and first since 2001.
The turnaround from last season to this year is one of the finest in major college football history.
The Buffaloes have become the ninth team since 1972 in the current Power-5 landscape to win 10 or more games after finishing the previous season with four or fewer wins (1972 was the year freshman became eligible to play in NCAA Division I football, thus defining the modern era). Colorado finished the 2015 season with a 4-9 record, but currently stand at 10-2 overall this year and ranked No. 8 in the most recent College Football Playoff rankings. The six-game improvement from last year to this currently sits as the fourth-best turnaround among those nine teams to go from a four-win season to 10-wins in just one year (CU actually has done it twice, doing so in 2001 under head coach Gary Barnett).
Colorado under MacIntyre and staff has performed at a high level on both sides of the ball this season. CU ranks 13th in the country and No. 1 in the Pac-12 in total defense, allowing just 323.8 yards per game while offensively the Buffs are 29th in the FBS by averaging 469.9 yards per game.
CU has registered six games this year putting up over 500 yards of offense, tying the school record for most 500-plus yard games in a season.
Defensively, CU is one of just eight schools in the country who have more turnovers gained that touchdowns allowed. The Buffs have given up just 23 touchdowns to opposing offenses (only 10 rushing, 13 passing), but have 26 takeaways on the season. Colorado ranks sixth in the country in turnovers gained and is eighth in turnover margin (+0.83).
On Oct. 22, Colorado became bowl eligible for the first time since 2007 after beating Stanford, 10–5. Two weeks later, CU clinched its first winning season since 2005 with a 20–10 victory over UCLA. Last Saturday on Nov. 26, the Buffaloes defeated Utah, 27-22, and clinched their first Pac-12 South Division title.
A native of Miami, Fla., MacIntyre attended Vanderbilt where he played two seasons in the defensive backfield, and ultimately graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in business management. He went on to earn a master's degree in sports management at University of Georgia.
He has served as an assistant coach at both the collegiate and professional levels, including stints at Ole Miss, Duke, the Dallas Cowboys and New York Jets. He was hired to his first collegiate head coaching position at San Jose State in 2010, and he led the Spartans to a bowl appearance and their first-ever top 25 final national ranking (No. 24) in 2012.
He was named head coach at Colorado on Dec. 10, 2012.
MacIntyre, along with the members of the 2016 Walter Camp All-America team and other major award winners, will be honored at the organization's national awards banquet, presented by First Niagara Bank, on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017 at the Yale University Commons in New Haven.
Walter Camp, "The Father of American football," first selected an All-America team in 1889. Camp – a former Yale University athlete and football coach – is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side.
The Walter Camp Football Foundation – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team.
The Walter Camp Football Foundation is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA). The NCFAA was founded in 1997 as a coalition of the major collegiate football awards to protect, preserve and enhance the integrity, influence and prestige of the game's predominant awards. The NCFAA encourages professionalism and the highest standards for the administration of its member awards and the selection of their candidates and recipients.