BOULDER — For the first time since receiving his gold jacket 14 years ago, Marshall Faulk wanted to be somewhere other than Canton, Ohio, on Hall of Fame weekend.

Six months into his first coaching job, Faulk wanted to be working with his guys in the Colorado running back room. That’s saying something for a self-described “football nut” who still soaks up knowledge from the great running backs who came before him.

“I didn’t want to go,” Faulk admitted Monday as the Buffaloes began Week 2 of preseason training camp. “I agreed to do this. We’re two days into camp, Coach (Prime) was like, ‘No, you gotta go. I cannot go; you have to go.’ It was the first time I had been there and wanted to be somewhere else.”

Still, Faulk enjoyed himself as he and his peers welcomed four players into the Ha

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