Colorado State University Athletics
CSU Fall Camp Notebook: Day 4
8/10/2015 12:00:00 AM | Football
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Fall training camp continued on Monday with Colorado State’s fourth practice. The first two days featured no pads, before implementing shells on Sunday. On Tuesday, the team will put it all together, donning full pads. With the pads come more tackling, as well.
“I’m excited,” Head Coach Mike Bobo said. “It’s basically full go. If you thud right, you can get a lot of things done. We’ll do a little bit of tackling tomorrow, but not the whole practice.”
Based off of the look of things Monday, the players are eager to get the pads on and start hitting.
“Yesterday we had two coaches getting into it, today we had a couple players,” Bobo said. “Some of the extracurricular we have to cut out, but that’s going to happen during camp. We’re doing a good job of keeping the extracurricular to two people and not letting everybody join in. The big thing is, that at the end of the day, we’re a team.”
Tuesday will be the Rams’ fifth of nine consecutive days of practice, and come Wednesday, they will sprinkle in several two-a-days.
Getting in front of the camera: Prior to practice Monday, CSU held its annual Media Day event in Bob Davis Hall. The press conference featured Bobo and coordinators Will Friend and Tyson Summers, in addition to nine student-athletes.
Several players praised Bobo and his staff for how they’ve made it a point to connect with their players, even by sharing personal parts of their own lives.
“Once a man talks to you about his personal life, it kind of brings a relationship closer,” senior safety Kevin Pierre-Louis said. “You actually know what he’s going through. Sometimes you think, ‘He’s a coach, we’re players; different path.’ We all have challenges in our life, and when he shares that with us, it actually brings the whole team closer.
“I will lay down anything to go fight for him. I was already bought in, but I am even more strongly engaged to go to war for Coach Bobo.”
Offensive lineman Fred Zerblis talked about the team’s goals and toughness.
“We want to win every game, go 1-0 every week,” Zerblis said. “Right now, the expectations we need to have are to wake up, put your boots on and go to work.”
Fans can watch the archived press conference in its entirety here.
Tickets update: Through the weekend, 7,800 season tickets had been sold, a more than 16-percent increase from last year’s total. Additionally, ticket revenue is up 19 percent from this point last August. CSU posted back-to-back sellouts last October, the program’s first sellout since 2004.
Season tickets, mini plans and single-game seats can be purchased online, over the phone at 1-800-491-RAMS at the McGraw Athletic Center Ticket Office or at the Ram Zone retail store in Old Town Fort Collins. CSU was 6-0 at Hughes Stadium in 2014, in addition to a victory in the Rocky Mountain Showdown.
