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New CU Buffs coach Mel Tucker: 'We're here to win big'

After moving his family around to different coaching jobs in recent years, Mel Tucker has learned that his two sons aren't easily impressed.

On Wednesday night, however, Tucker, his wife JoEllyn and their sons, Joseph, 16, and Christian, 14, toured the football facilities at Colorado and the boys were blown away.

"We get back to the hotel room last night and the boys say, 'Are you kidding me? We can win here,'" Tucker said Thursday. "I said, 'What do you think we're doing here?' That's why we're here. We're here to win big."

Tucker was introduced Thursday as the 26th full-time head football coach in CU history, taking over for Mike MacIntyre, who was fired Nov.