LOGAN — Utah State University’s football stadium will have a new name beginning next year, honoring a family whose ties to the university and Cache Valley stretch across generations. USU announced Monday that Maverik Stadium will become Jim Laub Family Stadium effective Jan. 1, 2027, recognizing Jim and Carol Laub and their family’s decades of support for Utah State athletics and the university. “This is a great honor, something that I would have never envisioned or never anticipated,” Jim Laub said during the announcement. “When Athletic Director Walker came to me with this proposal of the name change, I wasn’t quite prepared for it. I was kind of taken back a little bit, but I’m so humbled and so honored.” Several luminaries were in attendance for the announcement, including former Utah State directors of athletics Scott Barnes, Randy Spettman and Chuck Bell, former coaches Craig Smith and Matt Wells, and former Utah State President Stan Albrecht. For Laub, the connection to the stadium goes back almost as far as the facility itself. He was a freshman at Utah State when the stadium opened in September 1968 and attended its first football game. “I do remember my first football game here,”