The Morning After Monday Edition: Hawkins Still Here But Why?

CU athletic director MIke Bohn is expected to meet with Hawkins sometime this week. Sources say Bohn is reluctant to fire him before the season ends in order to keep the continuity with Cody, the lone scholarship quarterback available.

That's all i needed to see in today's paper to realize that the inmates are running the asylum up in Boulder which leads us to this question "What happened to come to this point?"

Road Woes

Well for starters Hawkins has been terrible on the road in his 5 years on the job CU has lost 15 straight true road games dating back to 2007 and 17 games total played outside of the 303 with 2 neutral site games going as losses as well. Most of these games have not been close and some of them have been downright embarrassing including 2 humiliating losses the last 2 times the Buffs have visited Missouri. Even Average teams can hold serve at home (something that Hawkins hasn't even been able to do) but the road does not lie and it says that Hawkins has more than worn out his welcome here in Boulder.

Lack Of Signature Wins and Too Many Signature Losses

Dan Hawkins In My Opinion has had 1 Big victory in his 5 years here (the 2007 win vs. Oklahoma at Folsom Field) Oklahoma was ranked # 3 at the time and CU stunned them. Hawkins to his credit does have some good wins (07 vs. Nebraska, 08 vs. West Virginia) but he has never been able to capitalize on them and in his last 2 years has no wins that stand out as big or important.

People will remember that loss to D-II Montana State, stunning losses to bad CSU teams in 2006 and 2009 and Toledo, and getting kicked by Big 12 dregs Iowa State and Baylor. They have not won a Big 12 road game since beating Texas Tech in 2007 that's right almost 3 calendar years since the Buffs last win on the road in the conference.