In previous coaching changes, CU has offered assistant coaches severance packages, including several months salary.
He coached CU running backs and quarterbacks.
Embree was the first black head football coach in CU history.
Now, after a Hawkins era filled with tantalizing promise, but more persistent disappointment, CU renews its search for the coach who can return the program to its glory days of the early 1990's.
While progress has been made in recent years with more schools such as CU being willing to at least hire a black head coach for the first time, Keith said there is still a long way to go.
CU has worked with the BCA that last two times it hired a coach: in 2005, when it hired Dan Hawkins, and when it chose Embree in 2010.
"There is plenty of guys that would take it that are on the upswing, but I don't see an experienced guy being real anxious to come here".Embree, a former CU tight end who played under McCartney in the 1980s and then coached under McCartney, Neuheisel and Barnett at CU, went 4-21 in his two seasons after inheriting a lackluster roster from his predecessor Dan Hawkins.
To resolve this problem, coach Kathy McConnell-Miller, who has both of these star athletes with famous names on her CU Women's Basketball team, simply has them pass through security at different times.
CU has either ruled out or been told there is no reciprocal interest from candidates such as Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen, Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe, Brigham Young coach Bronco Mendenhall and Utah State coach Gary Andersen.
Sharon Nelson, CU Board Jim Guest, President CROW--Elizabeth.
