I don't know if it was the worst CU football in 20 years.  They are just a few years removed from Oregon, Stanford, and Washington putting up 50 before halftime without breaking a sweat.

With that being said, CU football will never be a constant Top 25 until the university decides that they want it to be.  The facilities improvement was a positive step...but I bet they rest on that for another 20 years.  Seemed pretty easy for Leavitt to decide to move.  Part of the reason Nebraska was so strong under Osborne was that very few of their assistants ever left.  CU is horrible at keeping assistants around.

My wife and I were talking to a Texas A&M fan at the CWS in Omaha this past June.  The subject of CU baseball came up.  I explained that if they ever did bring it back, they'd just play their games at Fairview HS for 30 years, and then wonder why they can't turn the corner.