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</td></tr> </tbody></table> Boulder - Gary Barnett is on his way out as the University of Colorado's football coach.
A source close to contract negotiations between Barnett and CU indicated Tuesday that Barnett will not be retained as coach of the Buffaloes. Although there is no timeline for an announcement, CU athletic director Mike Bohn, who returns to Boulder today from meetings in New York, plans to talk to Barnett soon.
Barnett, whose record is 49-38 after seven seasons at CU, could not be reached for comment. A call to Barnett's lawyer, John Rodman, was not returned.
Colorado's poor finish was the breaking point, the source said. A month ago, Barnett was on solid footing in his search for a contract extension. Consecutive losses to Iowa State, Nebraska and Texas by a combined score of 130-22 placed a large amount of doubt on whether an extension would still be offered.
The 59-year-old Barnett acknowledged Monday that "prior to the Iowa State game, I felt like (an extension) was a done deal. Since then, the climate has changed."
Colorado started 7-2 but finished the season 7-5 and will play Clemson in the Champs Sports Bowl on Dec. 27 in Orlando, Fla.
Bohn, who Tuesday night would not speculate on Barnett's future, previously had expressed pleasure with the direction of the football program but was visibly upset after Colorado's 70-3 loss to Texas in Saturday's Big 12 championship game, the third-worst loss in school history.
Colorado's buyout of Barnett's contract will cost approximately $1.8 million. That total includes Barnett's $1.6 million of the $2million retention bonus and a year's base salary of $185,000. Where CU will find the money to pay Barnett off still has to be worked out.
From introducing his RTD (Return to Dominance) slogan to defending the football program against allegations of recruiting misconduct, Barnett can be defined by his defiance.
He was named the 22nd football coach in Colorado history on Jan. 20, 1999. He promised a rigid, more disciplined program than that run by his predecessor, Rick Neuheisel.
Former CU coach Bill McCartney stayed steadfastly in Barnett's corner. On Tuesday, McCartney insisted Barnett was still the right man for the job.
"I've believed that for a long time," McCartney said. "And even though they've been through some real difficult times, he's still got a lot of energy, a lot of years ahead of him, and I don't think that he's lost anything. If anything, he's learned more."
Barnett led the Buffs to four Big 12 North Division titles, in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2005. He was named Big 12 coach of the year after the 2004 season.
Colorado won the Big 12 title in 2001, beating Texas 39-37 in the conference title game. It was CU's first conference title since sharing the Big Eight crown in 1991. In 14 seasons as a Division I-A head coach, Barnett compiled a record of 84-83-1.
Colorado was 35-24 in conference games under Barnett, his best marks being 7-1 in the 2001 and 2002 seasons. He was 2-2 in bowl games.
Until this season, Barnett's biggest on-field achievements came in Colorado's performances against rival Nebraska. The Buffs were 3-4 in those contests, but Barnett cultivated a new attitude throughout that the Huskers were not a team to be feared. Colorado put a stamp
on the "renewal" of the rivalry in a 62-36 win at Folsom Field in 2001. Games against in-state rival Colorado State had started to come around as well.
Under Barnett, on-field toughness seemed to improve, yet recruiting never truly got off the ground. The Buffs' 2004 and 2005 classes were ranked among the bottom half of the Big 12.
Tension never seemed to stray too far away from Barnett. When he was hired as head coach in 1999, he inherited walk-on kicker Katie Hnida, who had been promised a spot on the team by Neuheisel. Barnett would later say it was against his better judgment, but he allowed Hnida to stay before releasing her after the 2000 season.
Hnida later alleged various kinds of abuse she says occurred in the program under Barnett's watch. Her allegations grabbed national headlines when she said she was improperly treated by teammates during the 1999 season and raped by a teammate in the summer of 2000. Several other women alleged sexual assault by recruits and players, but no charges were filed.
Barnett stood by his program, saying he wanted to get to the bottom of her allegations but also calling Hnida an "awful kicker" in the process, terminology that, in connection with rape allegations, angered then-CU president Betsy Hoffman.
Hoffman and CU chancellor Richard Byyny placed Barnett on paid administrative leave on Feb. 18, 2004, pending the findings of an investigative panel, which was formed to probe the CU football program. Parents of many of the players in the program rallied to show their support, as did former CU players.
Hoffman placed the program under severe recruiting restrictions, some of which since have been relaxed. A long-awaited audit of the football program is expected to be released Monday.
Barnett, as well as CU players and the coaching staff, was always adamant that he would be cleared of any wrongdoing. He was reinstated on May 27, but in the months after, Hoffman, Byyny and athletic director Dick Tharp all resigned.
Staff writer Chris Dempsey can be reached at 303-820-5455 or [email protected].
Staff writer Mark Kiszla can be reached at 303-820-5438 or [email protected].
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Of course he says they aren't. And his response to the 70-3 loss to Texas "A lot of people have lost pretty bad to Texas this year". That's the spirit.

I hope they don't tell him...I hope they clean out his desk, change his locks, and dump his shit on the street before he gets to work. We all have reasons to make fun of a lot of coaches, but you'll be hard-pressed to find a bigger scumbag than Barnett.
 
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Pretty sad that with a 9-7 regular season conference record over the last 2 years, Colorado has played in 2 CCG's, resulting in 42-3 and 70-3 losses.

That means that they have 2 Big-12 North titles, and a 9-9 record playing teams from their own conference over the past 2 years. Hard to believe.

I'll bet the new administration out there is relieved that CU got waxed in their last 2 games of the year. That gives them the football justification to get rid of him. They have to want to move past his association with the allegations of the past few years, and the poorly worded comments he made about kicker Katie Hnida.
 
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illinoisbuckeye said:
I think you are going to soft on the jackass. When your female kicker gets raped and your response is "Well she wasnt that great of a kicker anyway" you deserve a lot bigger of an ass kicking than he received by texas
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Actually it was worse than that...he looked into the national TV cameras and yelled "SHE WAS TERRIBLE!" in response to the rape allegations, as if that justified it, and then offered some cooked up half-baked stupid assed "apology" a couple of days later about being "insensitive".

Barnett is pondscum, and I hope we NEVER see him in the Big Ten again.
 
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These programs keep hiring the Barnett's, Neuheisel's, and Air Mumme's of the world in hopes of getting a quick fix. Which they usually get. But, on their way out the door, the program is usually in shambles with the rep to match.
 
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Oddly, it took the coach's dismissive and contemptuous comments about his one-time female kicker, who has now revealed that she was raped by a team mate (and what a disturbing phrase that is.). "Katie was not only a girl," he snarled, "but she was terrible."
 
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