The Broncos’ new coach sure sounds sorry for a man who says he’s been falsely accused.

Vance Joseph, recently hired as head coach of the Broncos, told The Denver Post the years-old sexual assault allegations against him, outlined in a 2004 police report, “are false.”

However, from there, the 44-year-old Joseph seemed to issue an apology. For what, it was unclear.

“For myself, for my family, for the Denver Broncos, I’m disappointed and embarrassed,” he told The Denver Post. “I was a young guy, and it showed … my immaturity and irresponsibility in my life when I was younger. But I’ve grown so much, and that’s why I’m disappointed – because I’ve grown so much as a person, as a coach, as a father, as a husband. Everyone who knows me knows that I try to live my life the right way, and I regret that my name is even associated with this.”

Joseph was a defensive backs coach at the University of Colorado in 2003 when two women, believed to be athletic trainers, alleged Joseph stripped naked, got into their beds, fondled their breasts and touched them with his penis. The case was dropped when one of the women declined to press charges and the other refused to talk to police.

“Even though VJ had been drinking and had some marijuana, he knew exactly what he was doing … ‘He’s just a sleaze ball,’” one woman said in the police report uncovered by the Boulder Daily Camera.

Joseph at least appears to have cleared the bar the Broncos set for employee conduct.

“While we were aware of these accusations, he was not charged with anything from the report filed in 2004,” Patrick Smyth, Broncos vice president of public relations, said last week in the wake of a Boulder Daily Camera report on the allegations.