Colorado State names Head Coach
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Steve Fairchild, Asst. Coach with the Buffalo Bills and former player at CSU has been selected as the new head coach for CSU.
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"Colorado State University’s Athletic Director Paul Kowalczyk announced today that Steve Fairchild, offensive coordinator for the Buffalo Bills, will be Colorado State University’s next head football coach.
“We are pleased that Steve Fairchild, with his significant coaching expertise and history at Colorado State, is going to return to his roots as a champion for our football program,” said CSU President Larry Edward Penley. “His positive reputation precedes him – I’ve talked with several people who know him as both a seasoned leader and a man of character and integrity. Paul has done an outstanding job in managing this search quickly and professionally, while dedicating himself to finding someone who is a great fit for CSU and committed to the success and well-being of our student-athletes. Steve will carry on the great traditions of Ram football while leading the program to a new era of success.”
Fairchild will stay on with the Buffalo Bills until the end of the season, but he is already assembling key members of his coaching staff. Among those who have already committed to the Fairchild team include Duke assistant coach Larry Kerr, longtime defensive coordinator for the Rams, and Marc Lubick, who worked as an assistant for Fairchild with the Saint Louis Rams.
Coach Fairchild, 49, played quarterback for CSU as a student and was one of the original members of Sonny Lubick’s coaching staff, from 1993-2000. As offensive coordinator for the Rams, he coached some of the top offensive players in CSU history and was a lead part of the team that secured five of the six conference championships during the Lubick era.
He returns to his alma mater from the National Football League, where he had tutored some of the game’s most productive young stars since leaving CSU after the 2000 season. He becomes the second current Mountain West Conference head coach to leave the NFL for his school, following Air Force’s Troy Calhoun.
Coach Fairchild and his wife, Nancy, have two daughters, Lindsey (20) and Jill (17). Lindsey is in college, while Jill, a high school senior, is considering attending Colorado State this fall. Fairchild graduated from Colorado State in May of 1981 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. He earned his master’s in education from Azusa Pacific in 1983."
“We are pleased that Steve Fairchild, with his significant coaching expertise and history at Colorado State, is going to return to his roots as a champion for our football program,” said CSU President Larry Edward Penley. “His positive reputation precedes him – I’ve talked with several people who know him as both a seasoned leader and a man of character and integrity. Paul has done an outstanding job in managing this search quickly and professionally, while dedicating himself to finding someone who is a great fit for CSU and committed to the success and well-being of our student-athletes. Steve will carry on the great traditions of Ram football while leading the program to a new era of success.”
Fairchild will stay on with the Buffalo Bills until the end of the season, but he is already assembling key members of his coaching staff. Among those who have already committed to the Fairchild team include Duke assistant coach Larry Kerr, longtime defensive coordinator for the Rams, and Marc Lubick, who worked as an assistant for Fairchild with the Saint Louis Rams.
Coach Fairchild, 49, played quarterback for CSU as a student and was one of the original members of Sonny Lubick’s coaching staff, from 1993-2000. As offensive coordinator for the Rams, he coached some of the top offensive players in CSU history and was a lead part of the team that secured five of the six conference championships during the Lubick era.
He returns to his alma mater from the National Football League, where he had tutored some of the game’s most productive young stars since leaving CSU after the 2000 season. He becomes the second current Mountain West Conference head coach to leave the NFL for his school, following Air Force’s Troy Calhoun.
Coach Fairchild and his wife, Nancy, have two daughters, Lindsey (20) and Jill (17). Lindsey is in college, while Jill, a high school senior, is considering attending Colorado State this fall. Fairchild graduated from Colorado State in May of 1981 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. He earned his master’s in education from Azusa Pacific in 1983."