Tyson Summers’ departure took nearly everyone around the CSU football program by surprise.
Not the fact that he got offered a head coaching job, but simply how fast it all happened. One day he was CSU’s defensive coordinator, and the next he was the head coach at Georgia Southern, which sits about 140 miles from his hometown of Tifton, Georgia.
His departure, which came in the middle of preparations for CSU’s matchup with Nevada in the NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl, left a hole in CSU’s coaching staff with just nine days — four of which the team had off — until the Rams and Wolf Pack faced off in Tucson.