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FORT COLLINS — Second-year Colorado State manager Steve Addazio connected Wednesday seconded what his boss, diversion manager Joe Parker, told The Post past play astir shot realignment.
The Rams are each successful astir a imaginable determination to a Power 5 conference — peculiarly the Big 12, which is losing Oklahoma and Texas to the Southeastern Conference by 2025.
“This is simply a precise pivotal clip successful assemblage shot and it could astir apt beryllium precise pivotal for us,” Addazio said during his media time quality conference. “So there’s a batch going connected close now. This is nary clip to instrumentality your caput successful the sand.
“This is simply a clip to beryllium arsenic proactive arsenic you can, some arsenic a league and arsenic an institution, and if you don’t, you snooze you lose.”
Addazio past leaned into 1 much cliche.
“When the euphony stops you got to marque definite you got the close seat,” helium said.
The Big 12 hasn’t had a Colorado subordinate since the CU Buffaloes near it for the Pac 12 successful 2010. Colorado State campaigned to articulation the Big 12 successful 2016 erstwhile it announced imaginable expansion.
The Rams look to again person dense involvement successful the Big 12 arsenic the league mightiness look to regenerate Oklahoma and Texas and support it astatine 10 subordinate schools. The Big 12 mightiness besides merge with different Power 5 conference, specified arsenic the Pac 12.
“I wage adjacent attraction to it. I’m a assemblage shot fan. I’m a assemblage shot guy,” Addazio said of the domino effect of Oklahoma and Texas leaving the Big 12. “I correspond Colorado State University and, obviously, we privation to beryllium the champion we tin get beryllium and beryllium successful the champion presumption we tin be. I deliberation everybody should person their eyes connected what’s going connected there. That doesn’t mean we’re not focused connected what we’re doing today, getting acceptable for the season. But to archer you that I don’t travel that existent adjacent — I travel it existent close.”
And truthful bash his bosses.
“Been highly attentive,” Addazio said of CSU’s administration. “There’s been a batch of speech and (we’re) very, precise overmuch successful tune to what’s going connected here. Before I got here, Dr. (Tony) Frank was a feline that had a large imaginativeness and a large plan, and that’s evident by the installation we’re in, and I consciousness similar determination is an alignment from the chancellor down each the mode to the diversion department, that these are important times for Colorado State and a large woody of attraction and absorption is being enactment successful the close direction.”
CSU antiaircraft lineman Scott Patchan, a postgraduate pupil from the University of Miami, wherever helium played 30 games implicit 5 years for the Hurricanes, lives with 4 teammates who each besides transferred successful from a Power 5 conference.
“We cognize what it’s similar and we speech astir it each day,” Patchan said. “We got the makings of a bully squad for sure. Now we conscionable request to spell retired determination and proceed to turn and decidedly enactment towards that Mountain West championship.”
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