Has Bohn finally realized that he's undermining his own slender chances for survival every time he offers Hawkins a vote of confidence? Maybe so -- not that it matters at this point.
The fantasy that the Buffs had the slightest chance of becoming bowl-eligible has officially been dispelled; it's now a mathematical impossibility in addition to being a logical one. Hence, 2009 will go down as yet another lost season, and no amount of making lemonade out of lemons will change that fact -- although lord knows, Hawkins tried.
After the game, he told the press, "You`re always going to have failures and setbacks in your life and you have to be able to take that energy towards getting better and moving on. It`s okay to hurt. That`s part of it and you want that, but you`ve got to push that hurt in the right direction."
Like out the door? That's where Hawkins is almost certainly headed, especially given his AD's sudden case of laryngitis.