FORT COLLINS — Jim Mora got over the line at Fort Fun with a tush push from Clay Millen’s dad. Small world.

“I think CSU had a heck of a lot of boxes that Jim needed checked,” Hugh Millen, the former Broncos quarterback and father of ex-CSU signal-caller Clay , explained to me over the phone Friday while the Rams’ season met a merciful end. “But it started with, ‘Do they have the support system to get to (my) goals?’ ”

Mora, who on Monday will be introduced as CSU’s fourth football coach since 2018, decided they did. But not before doing his homework.

Among the voices the Connecticut football coach reached out to in recent weeks was Millen, his old Washington Huskies teammate. He knew Clay was a Rammie. Another of Millen’s sons, Cale, played for Mora at UConn.

So they began a ser

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