1. Thomas Martin "Tad" Boyle was born on January 6,1963 and is an American college basketball coach who is the men's head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes of the Big 12 Conference.
14 Facts About Tad Boyle
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Tad Boyle was named the 18th coach in Colorado men's basketball history on April 19,2010, replacing Jeff Bzdelik.
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Tad Boyle played collegiately at Kansas under coach Ted Owens and Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown.
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Tad Boyle served as team captain his senior year, which was 1988 NBA draft choice Danny Manning's freshman season and Mark Turgeon's sophomore season.
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Tad Boyle played collegiately for legendary coaches Ted Owens and Larry Brown at Kansas.
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Tad Boyle was a member of two NCAA Tournament teams and was part of the 1984 Big Eight tournament championship squad.
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Tad Boyle was the sophomore basketball coach at Greeley West High School for a year and then was an assistant coach at Loveland High School for two years.
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Tad Boyle was heading to work one morning when somebody ran a red light and plowed into his vehicle at the intersection of McCaslin Boulevard and South Boulder Road in Louisville, Colorado.
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Tad Boyle was knocked unconscious, but the air bag likely saved his life.
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At that point, Tad Boyle was earning six figures as a stockbroker and considered his "other" job, as head coach at Longmont High, to be little more than a hobby.
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Later that year, Tad Boyle received a phone call from his former University of Kansas teammate, Mark Turgeon, then an assistant at Oregon.
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Tad Boyle, not married at the time, decided to take the plunge into a full-time coaching gig.
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Tad Boyle rebuffed this interest and stayed at his "dream job" at CU.
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Tad Boyle is married to the former Ann Schell of Greeley, and they have two sons, Jack and Pete, and a daughter, Claire.