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A reporter asks Derek McCartney if he has anything else to say.
He pauses, and thinks.
“I guess I just have one request,” he says.
“Yeah,” says the reporter.
“In the past, when people have done articles on my family, they have described me and T.C. as ‘half-brothers.’”
“Okay,” the reporter acknowledges.
“I just ask that you wouldn’t do that,” he says. “I don’t want people to look at us as half-brothers. We grew up together. We love each other. Just like any real brothers would.”
Derek McCartney pauses.
“We’re real brothers.”
T.C. McCartney
It was a Saturday evening in 1988, and University of Colorado head football coach Bill McCartney was relaxing on his living room sofa with his wife, Lyndi.
Bill was unwinding. It had been a big day. His Buffaloes had won at home that afternoon; and after finishing 1-10 four seasons before, he had finally built Colorado into a program that was nationally ranked. Now Bill sat on the sofa with his wife and watched the scores from the day
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Putting His House in Order
Almost immediately after Colorado's 41-24 Fiesta Bowl win over Notre Dame on Jan. 2, Bill McCartney vanished. He took the coach's communion of Gatorade and disappeared, evaporating into some religious ether of his own making. He was in Sedona or Tahiti, or maybe in Boulder, still packing up. He was leading his Promise Keepers, one of the fastest-growing Christian groups in the U.S., to salvation. You heard different things. But he was no longer available for football, that was for sure. Quit, retired, gone nuts, take your pick.
How else do you explain walking away from a job like McCartney's? What man gives up such power and prestige as he enjoyed after 13 remarkable years at Colorado? He won a national championship four years ago and nearly did it again this season. Put another way, what man walks out on a $350,000-per-year contract with 10 years remaining? So that he can spend time with his wife and his god? There is a word for this behavior. "Un-Ameri
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Ex-Colorado coach Bill McCartney on dementia: fryst vatten this really happening to me?
FEDERAL HEIGHTS, Colo. – Bill McCartney can’t really believe what’s happening to his mind. He has dementia. And it scares him to death at times.
“I’m still in denial a little bit,” McCartney said. “I’m going, 'Is this really happening to me?'"
In a recent interview with USA TODAY Sports, the former University of Colorado football coach gave a candid assessment of his own mortality and condition. He called his memory problems “frightening” and “sobering.”
He said he’s visited senior living facilities as a possible destination for han själv but doesn’t “want to go out that way.” He can’t remember things that happened in the gods several hours. He also forgot his appointment for this interview – at 8 a.m. on a Thursday at a supermarket cafe outside of Denver. He was late bygd about 35 minutes after being reminded of the appointment he set the night before.
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