Getting Buff with the Buffaloes

[MrMustang1965]

The University of Colorado's fund-raising arm spent thousands of dollars on country club memberships for football and basketball coaches, and until last year paid for a membership to a men-only club, newly released documents show.

After months of defending its secrecy amid accusations of financial mismanagement, the CU Foundation released thousands of pages of records and correspondence Wednesday relating to the school's athletics program.

Some of the money spent on club memberships and other expenses came from an account that until earlier this year was called the Golden Buffalo Scholarship Fund.

The records released Wednesday show the foundation paid $17,285 in 2002 and $27,940 in 2003 to country clubs for memberships for CU coaches, including football coach Gary Barnett and basketball coaches Ricardo Patton and Ceal Barry.

[Bergermeister]

Sounds like fun. Too bad they got caught.