Adversity? What adversity?

Gary Barnett never thinks about what could have been. No way, Barnett said. What\'s done is done. The Rose Bowl season in 1995? No time to think about it. All the job offers he got in 1996? His answer is a resounding, \"No. I made the right decision.\'\' Even after he inherited the nation\'s toughest schedule this year in his second year at the helm of Colorado, Barnett talked only about how much he and his team liked the idea of facing the best of the best. Call him a glutton for punishment, if you want. One month after his team opened its murderous schedule in September, Colorado wasteetering on the brink of disaster, giving critics reason to question whether Barnett\'s heyday in college football passed him by in 1995. His colleagues, though, say just the opposite. Passed him by? Not a chance. To them, Barnett is better than ever. Better than Northwestern. Better than the Rose Bowl.