Mike Brohard / Loveland Reporter-Herald)
FORT COLLINS — Though his memory needed a reminder, Jake Bennett is where he wanted to be in the end.
Coming out of Bear Creek High School at a time when Colorado State's football program had hit a dry spell, Bennett was keeping his options open, going against the grain of his thinking as a youth.
His father had attended CSU, and his uncle and his friends had graduated from there. He even has a picture of himself as a youngster at Hughes Stadium.
"I've got a picture of myself on the sidelines back when it was grass up here," said Bennett, now the senior center for the Rams.