FORT COLLINS — The dead cat was back. The bounce was gone.

“(I) really want to commend our fans and our administration for the amazing turnout,” CSU Rams coach Jay Norvell said after a 31-19 Homecoming loss to Hawaii on Saturday. “Biggest crowd at (Canvas Stadium), and we need to do a better job and respond to that environment as a football team. And me as a head coach.”

Bingo.

So many eyeballs. So many hands. It was the game plan. It was the execution. It was the adjustments. It was the offense. But it was the timing, too. Saturday saw the largest football crowd in Canvas’ young, somewhat sad, checkered history — 40,416 strong. They left cold and confused.

Which sums up the Norvell Era so far as much as anything, doesn’t it? A football program striving for the next level, only to fa

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