The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Issue date: 4/17/09 Section: News

Media Credit: Brandon Iwamoto Former CSU football head coach Sonny Lubick holds up the brochure from his recent induction to the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame on Thursday after accepting the position of community outreach director for the business college in March.

Sonny Lubick has been in his new office at CSU for nearly a month, but Thursday was the first time he took note of the fact that his name had been put on the door -- and that only happened when a man poked his head in the room to let him know.

"Oh is it now?" said Lubick, the College of Business' new director of community outreach, when the man notified him, getting up to go look at his new nameplate.

"I hadn't noticed."

The office is simple and straightforward. Some would even call it boring. Lubick's desk is neatly organized with only a monitor, a desk calendar, a phone and a few other small desk supplies. There are no pictures on any of the beige-colored office walls. 

Only a Colorado Hall of Fame induction ceremony program that sits on a small bookshelf, a signed football and a CSU football team plaque, all tucked away in unobvious areas of the office, indicate that Lubick was the head coach of CSU's football team for the most successful era in the Rams' history.

"You can take a look at (the ceremony program) if you want," Lubick tells the Collegian reporter sitting in his office. "But I'm going to need it back to write some thank you letters." 

The former coach, who was hired part-time last month by the College of Business to bring more visibility to the program in the community, is back after a nearly year-and-a-half-long hiatus from CSU after he was let go from his coaching position in late 2007.

"Life is good," he says.

Lubick says his induction this week into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame is an honor, but really, he says, it's a testament to the people who worked with him over the years. "It means I had a lot of great coaches here and even better players," he says.

Lubick has lived in Fort Collins for nearly 20 years, first coming to CSU as an assistant coach in 1982. After a three-year stint at CSU, he went on to coach at Stanford and the University of Miami until returning to lead the Rams in 1993. 

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