ESPN’s Pete Thamel reports Colorado State is hiring former Steelers GM Kevin Colbert as a consultant. Thamel adds that Colbert will help set up a football front office with HC Jay Norvell and the player personnel department.
A former Tennessee Vols assistant coach who was a fan favorite during his time on Rocky Top reportedly has a new job in college football. According a
Jay Norvell has done an excellent job at Colorado State, as his Rams found their eighth win of the season and will head to a bowl for the first time since 2017.
How many of the No. 1 overall picks from the NFL Draft since 1966 can you name in six minutes?
The wait is over. Colorado State finally is bowl eligible for the first time since 2017. In 2017, Jay Norvell started his tenure as Nevada’s coach. That year, Colorado State coach Mike Bobo took the Rams to the New Mexico Bowl.
We have our weekly Players of the Week awards in two sports to headline today’s edition. Additionally, we have some post-mortem comments from weekend games along with a story of rivals working together.
The Colorado Buffaloes and Colorado State Rams are gearing up to renew their fierce rivalry in the Rocky Mountain Showdown this weekend, one of the most anticipated games in college football.
Strike 1: The saying goes, “It’s not what happens to you that matters most, it’s how you handle it.” If that’s the case, the Colorado State Rams have a lot of stuff to handle, starting immediately.
Strike 3: For the Colorado State Rams, opening the season against a team with national title aspirations is not a brand new thing. Two years ago in Jay Norvell’s first season at the helm, the Rams opened up at Michigan and absorbed a 51-7 beating.
Colorado State head coach Jay Norvell is a student of college football. He pays his respects when respects are due, something he did that Tuesday when speaking of the Texas Longhorns football program and its storied history ahead of Saturday's season opener in Austin.
Nobody needs to tell Jay Norvell what type of challenge awaits Colorado State this Saturday. The Rams’ head coach once called plays in Austin about a decade ago.
Strike 3: Patience is an easy thing to preach. It’s much more difficult to put into practice, especially now, when the transfer portal makes it so easy and tempting for college football coaches to go for the quick fix.
Strike 3: Jay Norvell named names. The Colorado State Rams football coach, entering his third season in Fort Collins and expected to produce the school’s first bowl team in seven seasons, isn’t making any friends in places like Manhattan, Kan.
Unless he immediately comes up with proof that Kansas State offered his quarterback $600,000 to enter the transfer portal, Colorado State football coach Jay Norvell needs to apologize for making this serious allegation.
Kansas State had zero drama during its Big 12 Media Days session this week in Las Vegas. They, however, couldn't avoid it at the Mountain West event. Colorado State coach Jay Norvell accused the Wildcats football program of tampering with quarterback Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi.
The Colorado State football program is preparing to bounce back after an underwhelming 2023-24 season. The Rams finished the year with a 5-7 record, which placed them near the bottom of the Mountain West Conference.
Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi is now in his third season as the quarterback under coach Jay Norvell at Colorado State football. Reports suggest Fowler-Nicolosi received a significant offer to enter the transfer portal with Norvell accusing Kansas State football of tampering with their starting quarterback.
Last season, the Colorado State football team took on Colorado football on the road early in the season. Jay Norvell and the Rams came into the contest against Deion Sanders and the Buffaloes as heavy underdogs.
The Ole Miss Rebels are relevant in the national landscape of college football, but who would have expected they would be mentioned at the Mountain West Conference Media Days?
Tampering remains a big subject around college football, especially in a more wide open area when schools are allowed to use NIL incentives and the transfer portal to build their rosters.
Colorado State head coach Jay Norvell moved on from Colorado rival Deion Sanders, he claims, but the Rams' coach spilled the tea on a new hot-button issue around his program: tampering with quarterback Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi and wide receiver Tory Horton.
Jay Norvell believes the Rocky Mountain Showdown is a great rivalry, but stopped short of saying much about Deion Sanders or the Buffaloes. The Colorado State Rams coach told reporters he's looking forward to this year's matchup, which will be in Fort Collins for the first time in three decades.
Coach Prime, aka Deion Sanders, and Jay Norvell were at the center of the 2023 Rocky Mountain Showdown between Colorado and Colorado State for comments from Norvell directed at Coach Prime and how he carries himself.
Deion Sanders held back a lot of emotions after Colorado's stunning comeback win over CSU in this year's Rocky Mountain Showdown. The game was personal because of comments aimed at Sanders by Rams coach Jay Norvell. "I don't care if they hear it in Boulder.
Tensions were high before Saturday's much-anticipated matchup between Colorado and Colorado State. However, things nearly got out of control after an altercation between the two sides broke out at midfield roughly an hour before kickoff.
While seemingly the whole country was pounding Coach Deion Sanders's Colorado Buffaloes to cover the 23.5-point spread over Colorado State, Yardbarker's Jack Dougherty was advising that it was time to fade the Buffs.
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