Sonny Lubick
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"Louis "Sonny" Lubick" was the 15th head football coach at Colorado State University from 1993 to 2007. Far and away the winningest coach in school history, Lubick won or shared six Western Athletic Conference or Mountain West Conference titles, guided the program to nine bowl games and was named National Coach of the Year by Sports Illustrated in 1994.

Lubick's success has made him the most recognizable figure in the CSU and Fort Collins, Colorado/Fort Collins community, so much so that when Pat Stryker, head of the Bohemian Foundation, decided to donate US Dollar/$15.2 million toward extensive renovations of Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium/Hughes Stadium, she did so with the stipulation that the field be named after Lubick. The stadium is as a result now known as Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium. As a result of the donation, CSU added 4,400 new seats and jumbo-tron scoreboard in 2004, new press box and suites in 2005, and new synthetic field turf in 2006.

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At that point in time, we're going for the win, ... If we ever had a chance to win one, this was it.

It haunted me for a while.

That's a loaded question.

I don't think jobs are at stake for this ballgame. But if you lose it three, four, five times in a row, I'm sure there could be problems for you.

I might have been a little stubborn there, ... But everything was going for us, so I put a field goal out of my mind.

I'm not going to downplay it. That's a huge day. I'll tell you this: There's no better feeling than to be driving home in your car with a win on that day.

Joe was telling me he's having trouble keeping the Wyoming high school kids in the state, that they all want to go away to school. I said to Fisher: 'Can you blame 'em?'

I remember in the early 80s, we played CU once or twice and we didn't even have full houses. It was just another game. Now, it's brought a lot more excitement. From that standpoint, it's good.

Might be our starting running back right now.