In the spring of 2016, Mo Bandi was riding in the car with his father when he decided to bring up a touchy subject.
"I asked him, 'If, by chance I play football for CU, you won't be mad, right?'" said Bandi, who, at the time, was in his first semester as a student at Colorado. "He was like, 'Oh man, you're thinking about that again?'"
Bandi dropped the subject for a couple of days before revealing to his parents, "'I actually signed with the football team.'
"They were both kind of shocked."
A walk-on defensive lineman and 2015 graduate of Niwot High School, the 6-foot-5, 260-pound Bandi has a football body, but the native of India was raised to develop his mind.