While the entirety of collegiate athletics is caught up in the swirl of turmoil surrounding the Transfer Portal, Name, Image and Likeness payments, and major eligibility questions, the folks at Colorado State are trying to keep their focus on what it will take to keep CSU relevant amongst the chaos.
Athletic director John Weber fully understands the situation CSU is currently in. The move to the renewed Pac 12 conference next fall is a big step up, but doesn’t come with any guarantees for the future. The revamped Pac 12 will start out as a “Group of Six” league, not as the “Power” conference it was before.
With all the uncertainty that’s surrounding college sports right now, it’s tough to navigate where your programs stand.
“We’re in a state now where I think the industry is going through a transition of figuring out what the future really needs to be,” Weber told Mile High Sports. “We’ve walked back a lot of the traditional rules within the NCAA, and it’s going to take some time for us to figure out what the legal ways are to get some things done. People talk about employment, collective bargaining, organized labor… we’re just going to have to see where the industry goes.
“There’s going to be a lot of change still over the next, two, three four years,” Weber continued. “Because I do think it’s going to take a three-plus-year time frame to get things ironed out.
Weber remains firmly focused on making sure that programs like his are able to maintain access to all the NCAA’s championship events, including the College Football Playoff. The most important factor in doing so, now that the facilities in Fort Collins are in place, is to field winning teams. Win games, and the fans have proven that they will come.
“I look back to our March Madness run last year,” Weber noted. “When we were just three seconds shy of making to the Sweet 16… the exposure that we got…t he way that it impacts applications and enrollment and retention and community pride and all those sorts of things… you just can’t replace it. When I look at the future, maintaining access to championship opportunities, by far, is the most important thing for us.”
To that end, the school went all-in on a new football coach, hiring NFL veteran Jim Mora Jr. to lead the program.
“He chose us,” Weber noted. “I can assure you that he is focused on winning. When he looked at opportunities to go coach [somewhere new], he chose us – because he feels like this is the best chance for him to get a team to the College Football Playoff. We’re going to do everything we can to make sure that happens for him.”
No pressure, coach.
So far, Mora has said and done all the right things, including reaching out to all the Colorado high schools. His transfer portal additions – including six from his former team, UConn – have been met with positive reviews. All that’s left, with spring football kicking off soon, is to produce a winning season and get CSU back to a bowl game…in Year One.
And that might be the easy part.
For much more from John Weber, make sure to pick up a copy of the next issue of Mile High Sports Magazine.
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