FORT COLLINS — Since he was a teenager, Mike Bobo wore red. He wore the red of the Thomasville (Ga.) High School Bulldogs and then the red of the Georgia Bulldogs as a quarterback and then while on the coaching staff for 16 years, in two stints. Even during his only year away from the Georgia program, for the 2000 season, he was the quarterbacks coach for Jacksonville (Ala.) State, where the Gamecocks' major color is ... yes, red.
So this spring, not only is Bobo in his first year as a head coach at Colorado State, he is getting accustomed to wearing the Rams' green and gold as he settles into a workplace outside the talent-rich Southeastern Conference.