All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

In a game against Missouri on October 6 referees mistakenly allowed an extra down on which Colorado scored the winning touchdown as time expired. In 1994 McCartney's final year he coached the Buffaloes to a victory at Michigan where McCartney had spent eight years as an assistant. McCartney holds records for the most games coached (153) most wins (93) and most conference wins (58) in the history of the Colorado Buffaloes football program.

William Paul McCartney (born August 22 1940) is a former American football player and coach and the founder of the Promise Keepers men's ministry. In September 2008 McCartney came out of five years' retirement from Promise Keepers to become the CEO and chairman of the board of the organization after founding the Road to Jerusalem ministry.