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Louis Matthew "Sonny" Lubick (born March 12, 1937) is a retired American football coach. He was the 15th head football coach at Colorado State University from 1993 to 2007. . Lubick won or shared six Western Athletic Conference or Mountain West Conference titles, guided the program to nine bowl games and was named National Coach of the Year by Sports Illustrated in
Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium was an outdoor college football stadium in the western United States, located in Fort Collins, Colorado.It was the home field of the Colorado State Rams of the Mountain West Conference from 1968 through 2016; the team moved in 2017 to the new on-campus Colorado State Stadium (now Canvas Stadium).
It replaced Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium, which had been the Rams' home since 1968. Canvas Stadium has a seating capacity of 36,500, but can hold as many as 41,000. [5] The field has a conventional north–south alignment at an elevation of 5,003 feet (1,525 m) above sea level.
Seven coaches have led Colorado State in postseason bowl games: Bob Davis, Earle Bruce, Sonny Lubick, Steve Fairchild, Jim McElwain, Dave Baldwin, and Mike Bobo.
Under Sonny Lubick, the Rams played in their two of their biggest bowl games to date. The first was the 1997 Holiday Bowl 35–24 victory over the Missouri Tigers while the second was the 2000 Liberty Bowl 22–17 victory over the Louisville Cardinals .
The field at Hughes Stadium, named "Sonny Lubick Field" after the Rams' coach, underwent a $15.2 million renovation for the fall 2005 season. [4] Hughes Stadium was replaced for the 2017 season by the new Colorado State Stadium (capacity 41,000), whose playing field also bears Lubick's name; the stadium's name was changed to Canvas Stadium in 2018.
Led by third-year head coach Sonny Lubick, the Bobcats compiled an overall record of 4–6 and a mark of 3–4 in conference play, tying for sixth place in the Big Sky.
In their first season under head coach Sonny Lubick, the Bobcats compiled an 8–2 record (4–2 against Big Sky opponents) and tied for second place in the Big Sky. [1]