CSU Athletics: Joe Parker focused on team building

Colorado State athletic director Joe Parker (white shirt, center) is focused on scoreboards all the time, from the results of competition to the athletic department's graduation rates. (Jenny Sparks / Loveland Reporter-Herald)

Moving Forward

The Reporter-Herald will take a three-week look at the Colorado State athletic department, focusing on the ideas and projects athletic director Joe Parker is pursuing and the goals the Rams hope to accomplish.

FORT COLLINS — For Tony Frank, the idea of rather intelligent people backing themselves into false choices has become a pet peeve.

Colorado State's president watched it happen far too often in academic circles. For example, Frank said, the question of…