Here’s my updated list of verbal commitments for University of Montana football, including Hawaii transfer Ellis Henderson and Temecula, Calif., native Anthony Goodwin, who had a great season at Mt. San Antonio College. It appears the Griz are stocking up on defensive backs. Trimmed from the list is receiver Marquis Bundy, who decided to head [...]

Tim Hauck, Griz great and former Montana football assistant, landed on his feet in the NFL. He’s trading lake fishing for fly-fishing — Pacific fronts for Lake Effect — to join the Cleveland Browns. I always figured that wherever Jeff Fisher landed as a head coach (St. Louis) that would be where “Hitter” went, since [...]

Here’s a little something on the latest verbal commitment to the Montana Grizzlies, J.R. Nelson. He played a lot of receiver for Wilson High School in Hacienda Heights, Calif., then ran for 1,704 yards on 211 carries in his one season as running back. Nelson will be a defensive back at Montana. He brings the [...]

I dug up this article on John L. Smith* from the Dec. 7 Deseret News, which covered his introductory press conference as head coach at Weber State. He might be 63, but the man can coach. Michigan State fans may disagree, but Smith was successful at Utah State (relatively) and Louisville and Idaho where, believe [...]

Good news for Eastern Washington: The Eagles’ new football schedule has one more home game from a year ago. That means five home games instead of four for the Eags, who stumbled out of the gate in 2011 and missed the playoffs a year after winning the NCAA Division I Football Championship. I don’t begrudge [...]

The Big Sky Conference confirmed Tuesday what my pal Greg Rachac of the Billings Gazette reported Monday night: That 18 Big Sky football games, including the Cat-Griz game between between Montana State and Montana, will be televised on Root Sports, a DirecTV sports property. It signals a pretty big change for the Big Sky, which [...]

The Montana Grizzlies took another hit to their coaching staff with the hiring of offensive coordinator Jonathan Smith by Boise State. Smith will be the quarterbacks coach at Boise State and yet receive a nice bump in pay: The Broncos pay their assistants anywhere from $140,000-310,000, and I’ve heard that they’ll pay Smith somewhere in [...]

Colt Anderson was recently voted the Philadelphia Eagles’ special teams player of the year by his coaches and teammates – this despite missing the last four games with a torn ACL suffered at Seattle on Dec. 1. The Butte Missile is still deserving, and his injury was bad on several levels. For one thing several [...]

The Montana Grizzlies just lost their defensive coordinator, Mike Breske, to Mike Leach and the Washington State Cougars. Now that Brent Pease has been whisked away from Boise State to become the offensive coordinator at Florida, I have to wonder if that might have a domino effect on UM as well. One story has Boise [...]

Nick Holt VI is the latest football player to commit to the Montana Grizzlies, though he spent the past few months at the University of Washington as a redshirt. The rare opportunity to play for dad — though Holt was listed as a fullback for the Huskies, while his father was their defensive coordinator — [...]