and TV personality
Jim Ryan (USC '00), college football coach
== In popular culture ==
CSU Pueblo has a peripheral role in one of the most enduring urban legends in entertainment, specifically Van Halen's requirement in their technical rider that a bowl of M&M's, with all brown pieces removed, be present in their dressing room. Notably, media reports in the 1980s often claimed that the band had done more than $85,000 of damage to CSU Pueblo's Massari Arena after discovering brown M&M's backstage. The actual story, as told by David Lee Roth in his autobiography, was decidedly different. As background, Roth noted that the demand was added as a test of each venue's attention to detail after technical errors at smaller venues led to dangerous and even life-threatening situations. In Roth's telling of the CSU Pueblo incident, he admitted to having done about $12,000 of backstage damage after noticing brown M&M's, but indicated that over $80,000 of damage was done to the newly installed basketball floor because it …
