Stephen Thomas Fairchild was born on June 21,1958 and is an American football coach and former player who is the head coach of the Alphas of The Spring League.
20 Facts About Steve Fairchild
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Steve Fairchild graduated from Patrick Henry High School in San Diego, CA in 1976.
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Steve Fairchild is a 1981 graduate of Colorado State, where he spent three seasons as a quarterback and earned All-WAC second-team honors behind BYU's Jim McMahon.
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Steve Fairchild excelled in the classroom at Colorado State, earning first-team academic all-conference honors, the Merill Gheen Award for athletic and academic achievement and the NCAA District Athletic Achievement Award.
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Steve Fairchild earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Colorado State and later a master of education from Azusa Pacific in 1983.
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Steve Fairchild initially attended and played football for San Diego Mesa College, where he was named an All-American.
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Steve Fairchild split playing time with Keith Lee for his first two seasons, and was red-shirted in 1979.
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Steve Fairchild graduated from Colorado State University in 1980 with a degree in economics.
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From 1986 through 1993, Steve Fairchild held assistant coaching jobs at University of New Mexico and at San Diego State University.
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In January 2013, Steve Fairchild was hired by Mike London at the University of Virginia as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
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In 2001, Steve Fairchild was hired by the Buffalo Bills to serve as running backs' coach.
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Steve Fairchild left for the St Louis Rams in 2003 where he served as an assistant offensive coordinator for three seasons, before returning to the Bills in 2006 for a season-and-a-half as the offensive coordinator.
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Steve Fairchild was a coach in The Spring League in 2017.
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In December 2007, Colorado State University announced that Steve Fairchild would be returning to his alma mater to serve as head coach.
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Steve Fairchild succeeded Sonny Lubick, under whom he had previously been an assistant.
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Steve Fairchild ran for two touchdowns, the final being a game winning 77-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter.
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Steve Fairchild became the first coach in CSU history to post a winning season in his first year with the program.
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Steve Fairchild was fired by new athletic director Jack Graham on December 4,2011, one day after his Rams lost to the Wyoming Cowboys in the Border War.
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Steve Fairchild was named head coach of the Alphas of The Spring League on October 15,2020.
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Currently Steve Fairchild is a Football Player Development instructor for the online sports-career training school Sports Management Worldwide.