RamSpam - Volume 1, Issue 1


*November 17, 2000*	The Official "Unofficial" CSU Rams News and Commentary	*Volume 1, Issue 1*
Welcome to the inaugural issue of this hastily thrown together news and commentary. The intent is to provide readers (those who can stomach it) with information, news, commentary , insight, and general minutiae on our beloved CSU Rams. Topics, suggestions, commentary, rants, complaints, tips, inside information are all much appreciated. Simply reply to the list or send to [email protected] and you may see your words immortalized here in the future. What a thrill. Oh well, since this is our inaugural issue, I suppose we ought to get on to the madness...
Give Me Liberty... Now! (and in 43 days...)
Okay, so the 92nd Border War is behind us... The expectation was that even though Wyoming is suffering their worst season in decades, a rivalry game is a rivalry game. The first 20 minutes or so of the game sure had Rams fans worried. Into the second quarter Wyoming had a 6-0 lead on two CSU turnovers and 113 yards of offense, to the Rams 22 yards. Defense wins championships, so they say anyway, and in a 6 minute span, CSU scored 20 points on two defensive touchdowns and one beautiful pass play to Cecil "the diesel" Sapp. Oh what am I talking about... YOU saw the game! The Cowpokes came in at 1-9 overall and 0-6 conference. OUCH. Worse yet, our Rammies send them to a 1-10 / 0-7 finish. Fun Rivalry Stat: Apparently the 'Pokes haven't lost 10 games in a season for like 107 years or something like that. We didn't score the trifecta this season with wins over the rivals (CU, AFA, WYO), but two out of three isn't bad. Embarrassing the Buffs and Cowboys will always be a good time.
Magic Number: 5 (and counting)
Is Lubick "da bomb" or what? I can't believe I just said "da bomb" by the way, but "step off" or my "peeps" who "pack nine" will -- well, they'll do something... Anyway... in Sonny's eight years the Rams have won or shared 5 conference championships ('94,'95,'97,'99,'00) and led CSU to 5 bowl games. I still remember the press conference being played over and over on the local and national news, old Earle Bruce pounding his fist on the podium, crying like a girlie man because he liked to slap his players around a bit. Hey, if it won us a Freedom Bowl trophy in '90/'91 then what's wrong with a little tough love on the practice field, I thought at the time anyway. That of course was two seasons after the big Freedom Bowl win and Earle had gone a combined 8-15 in those years. CSU President Al Yates and the State Board of Agriculture actually discussed moving the Rams down to Division I-AA or II as well as killing the program altogether. Imagine the shame in potentially having been pasted by the boys from Greeley during their back to back NCAA Div II championship years... Ahh... what might have been. Back to reality: Lubick's initial Rams campaign checked in at 5-6. Bummer... Maybe we should've killed the program. Maybe not: Sonny since that campaign has gone 61-22, or 66-28 overall for a .702 win percentage. Comparatively he's ahead of Bob Davis (1947-1955 .618) and the "immortalized in name of a concrete block I consider an incomplete stadium" Harry Hughes (1911-1941 .618). Ain't it great? To really put the success in perspective, before Lubick CSU had a total of THREE 9 win seasons EVER. 1925, 1977, and Earle's 1990 Freedom Bowl year. This is Sonny's third season of 9 wins or greater all on his own, and one was a 10-2 and one was an 11-2 year. A win in the Liberty gives him his third 10 wins or greater season.
So Now What?
Well... now it's time to start winning those bowls... close doesn't cut it anymore... although as much as winning the game itself, I just hope we get a good contingent of fans in New Orleans. I can't figure out why we can have such great football success on the field, but we lack inthe stands so often. It's awfully disappointing to see on most of our 7 nationally televised games this year, empty seats in the stadium. Worse than just empty seats, the top corners of the student bleachers are regularly bare at times. To be fair, most games fill up nicely at kickoff and through the first half, our future CSU alumnists however apparently are working on making The Princeton's Reviews' Top Party School list like our friends down in Boulder. Seems like our student populous can't even wait out a thrashing of BYU to go start pounding Busch Lights. This is one of the things that has to change, along with continued success on the field, for CSU to hope to ever be a national power like CU once was (RTD - Return To Dormat).
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