Buffs quarterbacks coach Kurt Roper excited for change

New Colorado QB coach Kurt Roper worked with head coach Mike MacIntyre at Duke and Ole Miss. (Brian Howell / BuffZone.com)

Quite a few aspects of Kurt Roper's life are changing — or in the process of changing.

Colorado's new quarterbacks coach, who was hired this week, is joining a new team, with a new staff, in a part of the country he's never worked or lived. He has to move his family, which includes his wife and two children, across the country. He will even have a different job description than he's been used to for the better part of a decade.

Roper, however, takes comfort in the one thing that isn't changing: he's still coaching football.

"For me, football is football," he said. "You pick…