1. Your new coach is not named, and cannot be named, "Coach Mac." In case it comes up down the road, your RBs cannot be nicknamed "Whizzer" or "Speedy." And your LBs from Highlands Ranch cannot be named the "H Boys."
2. Scheduling better opponents is actually quite difficult these days. Here are your future schedules:
2013
08/31 - Colorado (Denver)
09/07- at Tulsa
09/14 - Cal Poly
09/21 - UTEP
09/28 - TBA or open date or MWC
2014
08/30 - Colorado (Denver)
09/06- Tulsa
09/13 - TBA or open date or MWC
09/20 - at UTEP
09/27 - TBA or open date or MWC
2015
09/05 - TBA
09/12- Minnesota
09/19 - Colorado (Denver)
09/26 - TBA or open date or MWC
10/03 - at Texas-San Antonio
2016
09/03 - Colorado (Denver)
09/10- TBA
09/17 - TBA or open date or MWC
09/24 - at Minnesota
10/01 - Texas-San Antonio
So, you are currently scheduling home-and-homes with the likes of Tulsa, Minnesota, and UT-SA. Those TBA dates, if you went after quality opponents (and/or big paydays), would only result in one-off away games (see Colorado @ Ohio State, 2011). Maybe you could grab some BCS teams to do 2-for-1s. But even if you pull off the stadium, your quality opponents won't start rolling into town for several years, best case scenario (due to how far out these contracts are signed). And if you take those 2-for-1s, you'll be getting you teeth kicked in on the away dates (and I think everyone is in agreement that CSU needs to start winning consistently to generate the revenue necessary to keep the stadium from being a financial pitfall).
I'll go on the record that I want to see CSU build a new stadium and have it succeed. The only way I see it succeeding are through 1) huge private donations and 2) a consistently full stadium, beyond the honeymoon phase. Considering how hard it has been for CU to get large private donations (and from a larger and wealthier alumni base), I'm not sure I see how CSU is going to get that kind of money (from a smaller and relatively poorer alumni base), unless Graham himself writes a HUGE check. I don't doubt that a new stadium would sell out the first year. But if the team struggles, you're looking at a North Texas-type situation.