BOULDER— D.J. Eliot was in his first year as a full-time coach when he had a chance to meet .
It was 2003, and Eliot was a defensive backs coach at Texas State. MacIntyre, already a veteran coach, was in his first season as the defensive backs for the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys.
“Me and a couple of coaches drove up to the Dallas Cowboys to meet with some of their coaches and I got set up with coach MacIntyre,” Eliot said. “He and I were in a room all day together. Then we went out to have dinner that night. That’s when I first met him and then I followed him throughout his career.”
Nearly 14 years later, the two will work together.
Last week, MacIntyre, entering his fifth season as the head coach at Colorado, hired Eliot to become the Buffaloes’ defensive coordinator and linebackers coach.
“I’m fortunate to be able to work for him now,” said Eliot, who met the local media for the first time on Tuesday.
Eliot comes to CU (10-4, 8-1 Pac-12 last season) after four seasons at Kentucky, where he helped the Wildcats (7-6 this past season) snap a six-year bowl drought in 2016.
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