Boulder, Colo. ? San Diego State athletic director Mike Bohn, a former Kansas University quarterback, has agreed to return home to take the same post within Colorado’s troubled department, the university announced Tuesday.

Bohn will be introduced as the replacement for Dick Tharp today.

The 44-year-old Boulder native has a tremendous task, repairing the damage done by scandals within the football program that contributed to the departure of Tharp, chancellor Richard Byyny and university president Betsy Hoffman.

Bohn, who graduated from Boulder High and whose mother still lives in Boulder, met Monday with reporters in California to discuss the possibility that he would leave San Diego State, where he served as AD for about 18 months.

He said he wasn’t deterred by the problems in the CU athletic department.

“In these positions, you look for opportunity for a fit, and the opportunity to be in Boulder, my hometown, and be in the Big 12 and the BCS may never come up again,” he said.

Bohn started one game at quarterback for Kansas in 1982.

Mike Bohn speaks at a news conference in San Diego in this October 2003 file photo. Bohn will be introduced today in Boulder, Colo., as Colorado's athletic director.

Bohn has already worked at Colorado’s two other major Division One universities — as an assistant athletic director at Air Force in 1984-92 and as associate athletic director at Colorado State in 1995-98.

Bohn was Idaho’s athletic director from 1998-2003 before leaving for San Diego State.