In true head coaching form, Mike MacIntyre doesn’t want to take credit for his latest accolade. The latest is perhaps the greatest, but MacIntyre is giving all the credit for his AP Coach of the Year honor to his players and coaches.
“I’m so proud of our players and our coaches and their hard work,” MacIntyre said on Thursday when the award was announced. “It all goes to them. Our chant around here all the time is ‘Players make plays; players win games’ and it all goes to them.”
“It’s a great honor to see the joy in their faces as we’ve won this year, and I’m just lucky to have ‘head coach’ in front of my name and be able to accept these awards for them,” MacIntyre said.
MacIntyre was already named the 2016 Walter Camp Coach of the Year, ESPN Home Depot Coach of the Year, SB Nation Coach of the Year, CBS Sports Coach of the Year, FWAA/Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year, 2016 AFCA Region 5 Coach of the Year and the Pac-12 Coach of the Year.
MacIntyre’s Buffaloes face the Oklahoma State Cowboys in the Valero Alamo Bowl on Dec. 29 with a chance to finish the season inside the top 10 with a win.