As of three days-plus after the Montana Grizzlies’ 31-28 loss at Sam Houston State, I’ve watched the replay a couple times and am, first and foremost, amazed at how the Griz picked themselves off the canvas. The Bearkats are excellent but to borrow a word from Caleb McSurdy: Dudes, that game was winnable. And those [...]

Wow, we left a lot of stuff on the cutting room floor Friday night. Night games like Montana’s 48-10 FCS playoff romp over Northern Iowa mean 5-6 less hours to distill the action – and there was plenty, including: a) The degree of difficulty on Sam Gratton’s two TD catches. The junior caught TDs covering [...]

It’s less than half an hour until kickoff for the Grizzlies’ quarterfinal game against Northern Iowa. By 9 p.m. we’ll know if Peter Nguyen, Caleb McSurdy and the rest of the Griz are again ready for prime time — and for the Panthers’ Tirrell Rennie. I’ve got a feeling that the Griz could be replaying [...]

Here are a couple things I found interesting. First, it seems that at least one Northern Iowa Panther won’t be wearing long sleeves Friday, when UNI squares off against the Montana Grizzlies in the FCS quarterfinals. Offensive tackle Jay Teply, who the Des Moines Register exposed as a Green Bay Packers’ fan:  “I’m actually pretty [...]

Here’s what I didn’t know about the Grizzlies’ 41-14 win over Central Arkansas on Saturday. Adam Archuleta’s receivers coach at Arizona State was Montana coach Robin Pflugrad. Not only that, Pflugrad recruited him. Not only that, but, “I got him to walk on,” Pflugrad said Tuesday. And upon further review, the announcing tandem for the [...]

No TIWIW yet for the Grizzlies’ 41-14 playoff win over Central Arkansas; until then here’s an interesting story that features Montana coach Robin Pflugrad today from the Arizona Republic. It mentions a few possibilities for the Arizona State Sun Devils’ open coaching job, including Pflugrad. Along with mentioning that Pflugrad was an ASU assistant whose [...]

As often happens, the feature I did for our GameDay section is already online at missoulian.com; we profiled junior running back Dan Moore this week ahead of the No. 5 Montana Grizzlies’ home playoff game with No. 15 Central Arkansas. Moore was notable for his return to the lineup for the 111th Brawl of the Wild: [...]