The trouble with the kids next door is that the good ones remember everything. Including when you stunk.
“When I was growing up, I definitely was a fan, but they weren’t great,” Chase Penry, the venerated Cherry Creek High School wideout, said of the Colorado Buffaloes’ football program. “When they won the South, I got really excited about it. And the next year, they kind of fell off.”
And the year after that. And …
“But as soon as coach (Mel) Tucker got hired, he wanted to see me at camps and he invited me to camps,” Penry continued.