New Colorado State coach Jim Mora wants "every kid in Colorado to aspire to be a member of this football program"

Veteran football coach Jim Mora has arrived in Fort Collins and was introduced by Colorado State University as their next Rams head coach on Monday. Colorado State announced on Wednesday that it had hired Mora.    

CSU is looking to turn around the football program, and Mora has proven he can take a struggling team and find success. He just took UConn, the coaching job he's leaving, which traditionally has not had much success in football, and brought the Huskies to two bowl games.

Mora said in his afternoon news conference that he wants to make CSU a major destination for football fans in Colorado.

"We want people that support this program to be proud to support this program," Mora said. "We want to see little kids running around with Colorado State jerseys on, you know, hats, and begging to come to school here. We want every kid in the state of Colorado to dream and aspire to be a member of this football program."

The Rams have some big aspirations coming up next season. They'll be leaving the Mountain West Conference for the Pac-12. And Mora says he wants to bring a Pac-12 title to Fort Collins.

"Good days are ahead. We're going to work every single day as hard as we can to be the very best we can be on that day and then we're going to wake up the very next day and do it again. We're not going to put any limitations on what we can be," Mora said. "Our goals will be set at a very high level and we will work every day to attain those goals. Because it's about the work. And one of my mottos is actions over words."

"We're going to talk a lot, but our actions have to match our words otherwise we're just spinning our wheels."