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CU Buffs’ interim coach Kurt Roper focused on Cal, not future

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Kurt Roper knows better than to get too comfortable in his new — and perhaps temporary — position.

University of Colorado interim head football coach Kurt Roper speaks during a press conference at the Champions Center in Boulder on Nov. 17, 2018.

As the son of a former college football coach, and being a part of the profession himself for the past 22 years, Roper knows that change is one of the few constants in the business.

So, when Colorado athletic director Rick George made the decision to fire head coach Mike MacIntyre on Sunday and promote Roper, CU’s first-year quarterbacks coach, to the interim job, Roper took it in stride.