Two months after he was hired as Colorado’s athletic director on July 17, 2013, Rick George and the Buffaloes were hit with adversity.

The 100-year flood in Boulder County in September of 2013 led to six reported deaths and damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes.

The flood also caused George and CU to cancel a home football game against Fresno State, which pales in comparison with the other impacts of the storm, but these were the first of many challenges George would face on the job.

“Maybe it was a precursor,” George said. “That kind of started it out.”

From the start, it’s been an eventful and sometimes tumultuous ride for George as the Buffaloes’ AD, and it’s a ride that will come to an end when he steps down at the conclusion of the 2025-26 academic year.

George announced his dec

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