The outdoor-recreation opportunities in Fort Collins, not Colorado State’s new indoor practice facility, swayed 6-feet-5, 250-pound defensive tackle John Froland to switch his verbal commitment from Northwestern to CSU.
Froland, of Snohomish, Wash., (about 30 miles north of Seattle) ranked three stars on .
He said Sunday night: “I’ve never been a big city person. … I just had a good feeling about CSU. I’m an outdoors person, the whole outdoors integrated at CSU as a fit for my personality.”
Another factor was the Big Ten school near Chicago didn’t offer the construction-management major he is pursuing, he said.
Froland took a recruiting trip to CSU last weekend although he said, “I wasn’t planning on switching.” He then said he had second thoughts all week, finally deciding: “This is where I belong.”
As for those facilities that have been wowing the 23-man recruiting class, Froland said, “The facilities were nice but they are all nice at the Division I level.”
He is the second CSU recruit who originally committed to a school from an automatic qualifying BCS conference. Earlier, quarterback Pete Thomas switched from Arizona State to the Mountain West school.
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