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If I believed that CU is uniquely cursed, I wouldn't bother with this.
So that argument is going to fall on deaf ears.
CU has some significant advantages and also some challenges (mostly of its own making).
I firmly believe, with real world proof to back it up, that when CU has a good coaching staff and its facilities are on par with the competitive mean, that CU delivers a Top 25 football program with recruiting in the Top 25.
When we have one or the other (coaching or university support), CU is a middling program as we saw at the end of the Barnett era.
When we have great coaching along with a president that emphasizes football and invests in football facilities, CU is a Top 10 program.
When we have lousy coaching along with a president who doesn't care about sports and allows football facilities to deteriorate, CU is a Bottom 10 program.
I don't think this is all that complicated.
Phil DiStephano, with 38 years at Boulder, shows symptoms of Chief Niwot's curse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Boulder_Valley