Sonny Lubick
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 12, 1937 Butte, Montana |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1970–1977 | Montana State (assistant) |
| 1978–1981 | Montana State |
| 1982–1984 | Colorado State (OC) |
| 1985–1988 | Stanford (assistant) |
| 1989–1992 | Miami (FL) (DC) |
| 1993–2007 | Colorado State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 129–93 |
| Bowls | 3–6 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1 Big Sky (1979) 3 WAC (1994–1995, 1997) 3 MWC (1999–2000, 2002) |
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Louis Matthew "Sonny" Lubick (born March 12, 1937) was the 15th head football coach at Colorado State University from 1993 to 2007. Far and away the winningest coach in school history, 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 1994.
Lubick's success has made him the most recognizable figure in the CSU and Fort Collins community, so much so that when Pat Stryker, head of the Bohemian Foundation, decided to donate $15.2 million toward extensive renovations of Hughes Stadium, she did so with the stipulation that the field be named after Lubick. The stadium is as a result now known as Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium. As a result of the donation, CSU added 4,400 new seats and a video scoreboard in 2004, a new press box and suites in 2005, and a new FieldTurf surface in 2006. In 2016, the university announced that the field at its new football stadium, set to open in 2017, would also be known as "Sonny Lubick Field", following an anonymous $20 million donation for that specific purpose.
A native of Butte, Montana, and a graduate from Western Montana in 1960, Lubick's coaching career began in Bozeman as an assistant coach at Montana State in 1970. After eight seasons with the Bobcats, Lubick was named head coach at Montana State prior to the 1978 season. Lubick's first season was wildly successful, as the Bobcats finished 8–2 overall and second place in the Division I-AA Big Sky Conference at 4–2. The following year the Bobcats won the Big Sky with a 6–1 league record (6–4 overall).
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