Football

As the Warriors prepare to play their Mountain West home opener on Saturday, head coach Nick Rolovich issued a challenge to CSU coach Mike Bobo to compete in the pregame garbage-can battle. It is a drill the UH quarterbacks go through daily as they try to toss a football into a garbage can from at least 30 yards away. “It came to me yesterday,” Rolovich said of the challenge. “I like Bobo. He’s a former quarterback.” Rolovich said the rules, […]

With last year’s participation in the Sydney Cup and extensive recruiting in Australia, the Warriors have developed relations with the land down under. Journalist Jeremy Pierce, who plans to do a story on the Warriors, and his wife Angie and daughter Trinity attended today’s practice as part of their 10-day vacation. After practice, Jeremy chatted with Australia-raised players Ryan Meskell, Stan Gaudion, Max Hendrie and Ben Scruton. By the way, Trinity is a running back on a club football team […]

After a loooong road trip to Laramie and a short mourning period, the Warriors were back practicing this morning on the grass field. The Warriors spent extended sessions working on CSU’s schemes. That, of course, is the advantage of practicing at home. With a limited travel roster, the Warriors do not get to practice against the scout teams on the road. At home, the scouts can provide several different looks because of their large personnel. Defensive tackles Viane Moala and […]

During today’s news conference, CSU coach Mike Bobo noted how the Warriors employed a physical running attack. The statistics prove that point. The Warriors are averaging 215.5 rushing yards per game in 2017. That’s the highest average since 223.4 in 1995, the last season the Warriors ran the triple-option offense. Even in 2010, when the Alex Green ran for a school-record 327 yards against New Mexico State, the Warriors averaged 114.6 rushing yards per game.

A third of the season has been completed, and this is what we’ve learned: > Diocoemy Saint Juste and Ryan Tuiasoa are a powerful 1-2 punch. The Warriors also found ways to get Saint Juste the ball on screens and slip passes. It might be intriguing to see Tuiasoa the target of screens, too. > It’s one thing to identify the need to avoid relinquishing chunk plays; it’s another to stop them. The Warriors practice against it, emphasize it, and […]

LARAMIE — The beauty — and controversy — of baseball is no two stadiums are alike. And Laramie is what’s intriguing about college football. Like BYU and volleyball, football in Wyoming is different than other places because of the elements. High altitude? Yes, it really does matter, at least according to my own experience (two nose bleeds in two days). And because it’s sitting on top of the Rocky Mountains, when it’s windy, it’s really windy, and when it rains, […]

Some days you’re having so much fun … you forget to write a blog post. The Warriors had a 2-hour workout at East High in Cheyenne, which is about 45 minutes away from Laramie (if you exceed the 70-mph limit). And then the Warriors feasted on Chick-Fil-A: And then a sunny day turned into this: So I sped back to Laramie, dropped off Reardon at the hotel, and then went to UW to get UW-made sausages: And then it was […]

After arriving in Denver this morning, the Warriors visited defensive lineman Kalepo Naotala at the Craig Hospital in Englewood. Naotala is being treated for a spinal injury he suffered during an accident off Waikiki on July 1. He was transferred to Craig, which specializes in neuro rehabilitation. UH media relations director Derek Inouchi provides these photos: