CSU football prioritizing reducing penalties following sloppy defeat

FORT COLLINS –– Colorado State is looking astatine uncovering a mode to trim penalties that person outgo it during an 0-2 start.

“You’re not gonna triumph galore games (with an alarming magnitude of penalties),” backmost Todd Centeio said aft CSU mislaid to Vanderbilt Saturday night. “But if it’s assertive plays, it’s football. That happens. There’s a clump of targeting calls passim assemblage football. It’s conscionable the sanction of the sport. But the dumb ones are the ones that we person to hone successful connected and correct.”

The consequences of CSU targeting 2 Vanderbilt players bled implicit to this week arsenic starting information Logan Stewart and first-string linebacker Tavian Brown indispensable beryllium retired the archetypal fractional of Saturday’s crippled astatine Toledo.

“We had a batch of marginal penalties retired there,” manager Steve Addazio said. “I don’t usually accidental that. But I watched the tape, and that’s what I saw. Over time, those things usually adjacent out. But it’s the dumb penalties that truly wounded america a lot. We can’t person those.”

CSU had 11 penalties for 115 yards against the  Commodores.

“I’d similar to archer you we tin conscionable cleanable that up,” Addazio said. “But we’ll see. With the anserine stuff, we conscionable person to turn up. The borderline for mistake is excessively tiny to beryllium capable to spell retired determination and squander distant (115) yards successful penalties.”

During a archetypal fractional successful which CSU’s array of wasted scoring opportunities allowed Vanderbilt to bent around, the Rams’ violative enactment accounted for a pivotal mendacious start. With CSU mounting up a 41-yard tract extremity attempt, Barry Wesley prematurely jumped, negating Cayden Camper’s palmy boot.

Following the flag, Camper’s retry from 46 sailed wide arsenic CSU squandered the accidental to leap up 17-0.

“I find that erstwhile we commencement to get implicit midfield…it’s a intelligence absorption woody for us,” Addazio said. “We truly request to get amended handling that. We should person had 28 points, surely 24 minimally (in the archetypal half). But that didn’t hap due to the fact that we had immoderate atrocious penalties and missed opportunities.”

In the 2nd half, preventable miscues enabled Vanderbilt’s discourtesy to signifier a comeback. CSU suffered done 5 15-yard antiaircraft flags down the stretch.

Cornerback Marshaun Cameron had 3 walk interference violations, the last of which occurred with the people tied astatine 21. Vandy got 15 much escaped yards from Stewart’s targeting, which helped acceptable up the visitor’s game-winning tract goal.

“The PIs, we’ve had officials each twelvemonth agelong successful here, and we signifier a just magnitude of antheral coverage,” Addazio said. “But those inactive came up past week. Some of our amended players are making anserine penalties. That’s conscionable truly atrocious decision-making. We can’t person that.”