FORT COLLINS — Even with the prospect of a second three-win season, Colorado State coach Steve Fairchild squelched any talk of him making offseason staff changes.
CSU yielded more than 500 total yards for the third time this year in Saturday’s 49-10 loss to BYU. The offense failed to reach the century mark in rushing for the seventh time.
Fairchild has two years left on his contract and is 13-23 (6-17 Mountain West). Asked about any impending changes, Fairchild said: “I hope not. I think staff continuity is a key, and I know we’re doing the right thing. I know we’re coaching the right way, and I know we’re recruiting the right way, so I will do anything I can do to retain our staff.”
Fairchild appeared to take the question as more of a scenario of losing coaches to other programs than him reorganizing the staff.
“Guys do what they have to do professionally, but we’ve got a solid staff,” he said. “I knew that when I got hired, that was going to be key as anything.”
Crowd plunges with temperature.
The first chill and a season going nowhere contributed to the lowest crowd of the year. The announced gate for the home finale was 16,501, which dropped the season average to 22,399. That’s below last year (23,643) but ahead of 2007 and ’08.
Footnote.
CSU senior Ricky Brewer is up to 101 tackles, the first Ram since Eric Pauly in 2002-03 with multiple 100-tackle seasons.
