If there is one message Colorado State wants conveyed this week, in the midst of its most trying period of the season, it’s probably this:
“We have to remember what it felt like to be 3-9 and lose all of those games straight,” cornerback Momo Thomas said.
Because if the Rams don’t remember, and use that experience to help quickly correct what’s going wrong during their current three-game losing streak, they’ll be doomed to repeat it.
Colorado State won just three games in each of the last two seasons. In 2009 there was a nine-game slide after winning its first three games. In 2010, there were two separate three-game losing streaks that contributed to a nine-loss total.
No one wants that.
But if CSU is to dig itself out of this hole the personnel already present is going to have to get it done.
“Nothing’s going to change,” Thomas said. “It’s going to be the same players and the same coaches.”
Colorado State has gone 0-3 after a 3-1 start, dropping under .500 for the first time this season wit its loss at UTEP over the weekend. The Rams clearly are no longer improving on a week-to-week basis, and they’ll have to get that back to redirect the season into what they want it to be.
Up next is UNLV, a team that at 1-5 overall struggles to do anything right, but even in the leanest of years has played CSU tough in Las Vegas. The Rebels were off last week.
Colorado State gets its second — and final — bye week of the season after the contest.
“I think our team definitely believes in each other and what we can do,” running back Chris Nwoke said. “Each day is a day we can get better. We’re going to work hard this week in practice to get back to .500. I just feel like we made some mistakes and we’re about to get better (this week).”
Chris Dempsey: 303-954-1279 or cdempsey@denverpost.com
