MacIntyre Hires Kurt Roper As Quarterbacks Coach

BOULDER – Kurt Roper, a 22-year veteran in the coaching ranks, has been hired as quarterbacks coach at the University of Colorado, head coach Mike MacIntyre announced Wednesday.

"Kurt brings a tremendous amount of quarterback coaching experience and has tutored some of the great ones like Eli Manning at Ole Miss and Thaddeus Lewis at Duke," MacIntyre said. "He has great offensive knowledge and we are extremely excited to have a coach of his caliber on our staff to work with our quarterbacks."

Roper, 45, was previously an offensive coordinator for two SEC programs and another in the ACC. He most recently was the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at South Carolina for the past two…