Trevor Wikre on Wednesday became Colorado State’s most famous football graduate assistant coach since Lane Kiffin.
Wikre found himself in the national spotlight midway through his 2008 senior season at Mesa State. The offensive guard dislocated his right little finger during practice. Surgery would have cost him the final five games of his career, so Wikre told doctors to chop it off, or words to that effect.
He has no regrets.
“I really don’t notice anything different. It was worth playing those five games,” Wikre said.
Wikre has been at CSU since the fall as an academic coordinator. The Berthoud High School graduate is enjoying being closer to home.
Since the amputation, he enjoys playing jokes on others by pretending to pull off his finger, but it did backfire once.
“One little girl at my wife’s Christmas party ended up crying on me,” he said.
