Keeler: CSU Rams never showed up for Border War, shamed 28-0 by Wyoming

LARAMIE Wyo Reality check CSU was already checked out Wyoming came to play Saturday night The Rams came to pout Or maybe plan to a man for life after Fort Collins If the th edition of the Boundary War was a boxing match they d have called it after three rounds If it were a Broadway show they d have closed it at intermission If it was a harbinger it s going to be an awfully long awfully cold final four weeks in Fort Fun Wyoming CSU And that scoreline allegedly flatters the Rams who looked flat from the jump It was the Cowboys largest margin of mastery in a battle for the Bronze Boot since a - Pokes triumph That was also the last time CSU got blanked in the series It was three hours of negative superlatives each stacking on top of the other like poisoned LEGO blocks You can fake a lot of these things in this world You can t fake football when the administration fires the coach and sets fire to the rest of the season You can t fake giving a hoot in a rivalry competition when you don t That s not a knock It s just human nature Jay Norvell was given his walking papers last Sunday CSU s franchise QB Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi walked out right after him The pair dug a lot of the holes this campaign finds itself in right now granted But there isn t enough talent or brotherhood or camaraderie or trust left among the remaining pieces to climb out The lines between the NFL and the upper levels of the college contest are getting blurrier by the day But when everybody s a free agent that whole checking out thing becomes endemic Related Articles Grading The Week Chauncey Billups arrest FBI charges Michael Porter Jr warned us what was coming Keeler Will CSU Rams please stop urgent Sonny Lubick s heart Haven t figured it out yet he laments Keeler Thanks to loaded Nuggets roster Aaron Gordon can get back to doing what he does best Everything Keeler Broncos coach Sean Payton necessities to bench Broncos play-caller Sean Payton Renck vs Keeler Where does Broncos comeback win rank in Denver sports history You know how a pro locker room looks in December when the guys inside it wake up with a - record That s what CSU looked like Saturday guys taxis agendas In the old days a college coach even an interim one rarely lost a locker room entirely Too numerous guys would be too worried about keeping their scholarships never mind their snaps That s gone baby Thanks to the transfer portal greater part of these guys are gone too And they already know it The Rams - - Mountain West have four games left They might well be underdogs in all of them If Saturday was any indication they won t be close in a great number of of them If you re not going to show up for the Boot when are you ever going to show up And if I m interim coach Tyson Summers here s what I ve got to say to reach this CSU roster and its communal wanderlust You might not care about us Or about putting something on tape for us going forward But you re going to want to put something on tape for somebody gentlemen And I m not playing guys who don t want to put something on tape Or something along those lines Colorado State University interim head coach Tyson Summers speaks to the bureaucrats during their challenge against University of Wyoming at War Memorial Stadium on Saturday Oct in Laramie Photo by Milo Gladstein Wyoming Tribune Eagle Owen Long He s got tape good enough for anybody Power schools included After three quarters the CSU linebacker and California native had already piled up nine stops He collected four on the first seven Wyoming snaps of the evening Whatever that guy wants on the revenue-sharing territory you give him Whatever running back Jalen Dupree wants best listen Same with speedy runners Javion Kinnard and Lloyd Avant And Tanner Morley on the offensive line Among underclassmen after that Don t know Awfully short list Then again that s how a coach gets fired That and CSU s QB room right now If there was ever a time to ride with redshirt freshman Darius Curry of passing yards behind center though this would be it Because with Jackson Brosseau for three interceptions we ve already seen enough And we ve likely already seen his peak With left in the first quarter on first down from the CSU Brousseau locked eyes on wideout Tommy Maher on an out highway up the left boundary and never unlocked them despite an open man spilling past the hash marks Wyoming defensive back Desman Hearns followed Brousseau s eyes too stepping in front of Maher and cradling the pick at the CSU Same song Different Hearns The Rams threatened to make it enthralling again with left in the half facing a third-and- at their own while trying to dent a - Wyoming lead Brousseau rolled right this time only instead of setting himself he heaved a prayer off his back foot The ball no shock air-mailed past everybody Everybody in green at any rate Only at the last instant Pokes free safety and former Poudre High star Jones Thomas slid under the ball before it could hit the turf for Wyoming s second pick of the first half As daggers go it was as ironic as it was painful Thomas is the grandson of CSU legend Earlie Thomas A Rams legacy With six minutes left in the first half CSU was averaging yards per carry on eight totes Yet they were down - Why They d managed all of two passing yards Two At the half Brousseau had completed four of eight throws for yards CSU had logged offensive yards as a crew Wyoming had and led - Same song Different curse Both rivals brought new play-callers to the Limit War But only one side really demonstrated it While the Rams were shaking things up this past Sunday and Monday Wyoming kept pace After a - loss at Air Force Sawvel demoted Jay Johnson from offensive coordinator to analyst Enter Jovon Bouknight And exit huddles Wyoming s opening stalled at the Rams Wyoming s second punch alas landed The Pokes marched yards on plays capping the jaunt on backup QB Landon Sims keeper in the end zone from a half-yard out with to go in the quarter Turns out that was enough When Summers signed up to try and right a - 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