BOULDER — In the old days, whenever Mustafa Johnson knocked the living snot out of somebody in practice, the CU Buffs defensive lineman knew full well there’d be holy heck to pay during the coaches meeting that followed. A butt-chewing of epic proportions.
Saturday’s practice? Another Mustafa Mash.
Saturday’s coaches’ meeting? Different tune.
“Mustafa,” first-year coach Mel Tucker said, calling out his most veteran interior plugger, who braced for the worst. “You’re doing a good job. But please don’t do it the next time.”
“That’s pretty much all it was,” Johnson recalled with a smile at the Dal Ward Athletic Center during CU football Media Day an hour so after the fact.