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Keeler: CU Buffs’ Tad Boyle on why declining his NCAA Tournament bonus “was the right thing to do”

Tad Boyle is no hero. He’d be the first to tell you that. The heroes are the men and women in PPE, fighting coronavirus in the trenches. The heroes are the grinders who make sure the shelves at grocery stores are stocked every morning.

“But I’ve always felt, with this situation, it’s not something that I wanted to necessarily go public with, or come to public light,” Boyle, the venerated CU men’s basketball coach told The Post. “But if it did, that’s fine.”

Boyle’s boss, Rick George, went public Thursday afternoon. The Buffs athletic director noted during a conference call with media that he had, indeed, granted his men’s hoops coach a $105,000 NCAA Tournament appearance bonus for a tournament that never happened.