FORT COLLINS — Colorado State athletic director Joe Parker wasn't surprised to see his name pop up as a candidate for the vacated AD's job at Michigan, but the leader of the CSU athletic department said he hasn't been contacted by the school.
"I wasn't," he said. "I think their current situation, they have an interim status, and at some point they were going to put themselves in a position for a permanent replacement, and my name has been mentioned in the past, so it wasn't a surprise for me. But a mention and that kind of speculation is a world of difference between a direction a university might go.