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The former Buffs will be in Boulder Oct. 2 to watch the current team take on Georgia at Folsom Field. Athletic director Mike Bohn said the athletic department is working with Nike to present each member of the 1990 team with a commemorative jersey and the 2010 Buffs will likely wear 1990 throwback uniforms throughout next season.
Former coach Bill McCartney, who built the school`s only national title winner in football and is CU`s most successful coach with 153 career victories at the school, made the announcement Thursday during the annual football recruiting luncheon at the Sheraton Hotel.
"You want to bring them back, you want to get them all here, if possible," McCartney said. "You want to honor and celebrate and laugh with them and enjoy that time. You want them to reconnect with the university and the experience that they had here.
"But there is another reason. It`s so this year`s team can feel the depth of the commitment and of the resolve that these guys had to achieve that high standard. I personally believe this year`s team in that Georgia game, we will see Colorado play with alltheir hearts."
McCartney recalled how the 1990 team played what was later deemed to be the nation`s toughest schedule on its way to the title that season. Part of that schedule was beating both Texas and Oklahoma on the road and beating Oklahoma and Nebraska in back-to-back weeks.
It was the second year in a row CU was able to beat both Oklahoma and Nebraska within an eight-day span of each other.
"Those teams that did that, it took a tremendous amount of resolve," McCartney said.
The Buffs beat Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl that season to capture their first championship. McCartney said he believes that was the most talented Notre Dame team in the past 20 seasons.
Several members of the 1990 team were on hand at the luncheon including running backs coach Darian Hagan, who quarterbacked the 1990 team, and his backup, Charles Johnson, who works in the athletic department and for KOA radio.
Hagan and Johnson closed the luncheon leading a group of about 500 in singing the school fight song.
"It`s going to mean a lot," Hagan said. "To have all those guys back and see the guys that I played with for years and be honored and let this year`s group be around them. I talk so much about the guys I played. For our guys to be able to meet them and understand where I`m coming from when I talk about those guys, it will be special."
Hagan said the 1990 team has remained close and many members of the team remain in the Denver-Boulder area. He said he recently reunited with former CU wide receiver Charles Johnson while recruiting Trea Jones, a running back in this year`s recruiting class, in North Carolina.
Hagan said Johnson was recently named the head coach of a high school program in North Carolina.
"I had no idea he was living in Raleigh, North Carolina," Hagan said. "So you run into guys or you see guys all the time at games or see guys back in California. You just reconnect for a minute and it`s awesome."
