I was a badly recruited Division 1 football player. I walked away from my scholarship and the team and any involvement with team sports 37 years ago.
My family, what’s left of it, still to this day cannot avoid talking about it on the rare occasions that we get together. They still get angry with me for doing it because my father was living vicariously through me, and my mother found a diversion from caring for 7 children, leaving the four smaller ones with relatives while she went to my games.
My fathers’ discust with me came out often in angry drunken tirades that took place at home after I moved away.
I have spent countless hours thinking about how I could use my experience to help other players and universities see beyond the present and make the right decisions to further their cause of building winning teams while creating loving, growing, nurturing, and healthy enviornments for their family, their school, their community, and their student athletes.
I saw the opportunity to do this with the teams I played on in grammar school, high school and college. I was successful in creating a winning enviornment when I was Captain, Quarterback, and Safety, on a Championship Pop Warner Team. I was Captain and Quarterback on a high school team that struggled to win with an unknowledgeable and controlling coach who did more to loose than anything else.
That team mutinied and went on to share the city championship and the Catholic
league championship that year. Winning wasn’t a good thing however, because the coach wasn’t happy. He had a hidden agenda. That was, to get a college coaching job, and when some of the players who were interviewed told the media that if it wasn’t for me changing the plays to one that worked, we would have lost the four critical games we needed to win to be champs. I was thrown off that team before the last game.
I went on to a new school and two years later we went undefeated and won a regional champioship. That year, the coach of my previous school resigned his coaching position and gave up on the dream of becomming a college coach. There’s more to the story as I went through the recruiting process for college but you already know that didn’t work out.
So, to the reason I am contacting you. I have been thinking about doing something for Colorado Football since I listened to the CU/ND Fed Ex Orange Bowl Game of 1991 on my car radio when I was driving home to New York from San Diego.

I would welcome a chance to be a part of the football staff and play a part in building a winning organization according to the Creed. However I have logged no hours of experience in that capacity. Also, I worked as a Stockbroker in New York and I raised a lot of money for a myriad of business entities. From Movie Studios to Theme Parks and on and on and I’m interested in knowing if you think I should look into helping the university in this endeavor.

John Sheehan
610-845-8177
jjsheehan311@hotmail.com

Anyway, I have been a Buffalo fan since the 1991 Fed Ex Orange Bowl victory over Notre Dame. Since then I have seen Colorado get stuck in the mud a few times with players getting into serious scrapes with the law, transfers, and all the things we already know about.