CU football coach and former football player brings back Black fraternity

CAMPUS. OUR JUSTIN ADAMS HAS THE STORY. >> Reporter: BACK IN 2020 THE BUS WAS RUNNING WILD OVER THE ARIZONA WILDCATS. >> BROUSSARD RIPPED OFF ANOTHER BIG ONE 75 YARDS EARLIER, 59 HERE. >> Reporter: RUSHING OVER 400

YARDS, THE RUNS WERE MADE POSSIBLE BY CU CENTER JOSHUA JYNES. THE BIG MAN LED THE TEAM THAT DAY AND WAS SOON LOOKING TO LEAD ANOTHER GROUP ON CAMPUS. >> I DIDN’T LOOK INTO IT BECAUSE I JUST ASSUMED EVERY

COLLEGE HAD FRATERNITIES, SO BLACK FRATERNITIES OR SORORITIES. WHEN I WAS ON CAMPUS, THEY DIDN’T HAVE IT. >> Reporter: HE WAS LOOKING FOR OMEGA PSI PHI, THE POPULAR BLACK FRATERNITY FOUNDED IN 1911 AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY AND

PROMINENT ON CU’S CAMPUS IN THE ’90s. JOSHUA’S DAD AND UNCLE ARE PART OF THE FRATERNITY. SO HIS UNCLE CALLED HIS FRATERNITY BROTHER, DE’RON JASPER, WHO WORKS IN CU’S ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT. >> HE WAS LIKE OH, HE WANTED TO

BE AN OMEGA, BUT HE DIDN’T KNOW OMEGAS WERE EVEN AROUND AT THE TIME. I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF GAUGE SAYING I CAN SEE HIM FITTING IN AND HOW HE CAN HELP. >> Reporter: WORKING WITH

DERON AND A CLASSMATE THE TRIO OBTAINED STATUS ON CAMPUS. THE PROCESS TOOK A YEAR TO COMPLETE, BUT WHEN IT WAS DONE IN 2022, OMEGA PSI PHI BECAME THE FIRST OFFICIAL BLACK FRATERNITY. >> I SAY IT’S THERE AND IF I

WANT TO STRIVE TO BE IN THAT, I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY. >> Reporter: OMEGA’S FOUR CARDINAL PRINCIPLES ARE MANHOOD, SCHOLARSHIP, PERSEVERANCE, AND UPLEFT. JOSHUA HOPES TO SEE MORE OMEGA MEN LIVING THAT OUT IN CAMPUS IN PURPLE AND GOLD.

>> ALWAYS HAVING A BROTHER TO LEAN ON, ALWAYS HAVE SOMEONE TO CALL WHEN THINGS GET TOUGH, I CAN ALWAYS DO THAT. THAT’S

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