![]() ![]() were speaking he was the point person (for those speeches).” “He came up in the late ’60s, and my father was on the Wisconsin campus when Muhammad Ali was traveling and speaking on college campuses when Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. “My father was a great man,” Norvell said Tuesday after his CSU introductory press conference. To Jay, all three people in the photograph were the greatest. ![]() One parent in the picture is the one Norvell tries to emulate the other gave him his personality. ![]() There was his father, Merritt, and his mother, Cynthia, standing with Muhammad Ali. Sometime later, the 24th head football coach at Colorado State University was cleaning out his dad’s belongings when he came across an old photo. Jay Norvell’s father died at the start of the week of Nevada’s first game in 2020 - an emotional 37-34 overtime win against Wyoming. ![]()
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