FORT COLLINS — Colorado State football coach Steve Fairchild can be forgiven if he’s in a time warp this week after seven years in the NFL.
CSU opens the season Sunday. Unlike the NFL, there was no universal players’ day off Tuesday. And Thursday’s practice, normally a lighter day in college, is “an extra day” for the Rams.
Fairchild even cracked a rare joke when he said he told his players if they work hard they might be able to play on Sundays.
But playing a Sunday game in college, he said, was like a “Monday Night Football” game in the NFL — there’s an extra day to prepare, but you lose a day the next week.
Footnotes.
The punting job is still up for grabs between Anthony Hartz, a junior college transfer brought in this summer; and Cody Harter, a walk-on kicker-punter from Smoky Hill. Place-kicker Jason Smith, who had moved in front for the punting job, is out with a broken arm. . . . Unlikely for the opener are backup tight end Chris Kawulok, a senior held out of practice with a knee injury, and junior college transfer wide receiver Jyrone Hickman, who added a knee sprain to a hamstring problem that has kept him out of most of preseason camp.
Natalie Meisler, The Denver Post
