The trip to Ronan on Saturday reminded me of any other trip I’ve made up 93 to watch a Montana Grizzlies’ football scrimmage. Cold. Windy. Little offense. I mentioned in my story notes that two other trips north netted some pretty dismal passing numbers. The exception was 2008 in Polson: Cole Bergquist, Andrew Selle, Jeff [...]

A few things were left over from my visit to the Griz football offices, ahead of the first practice of fall drills for UM, that aren’t in my Tuesday Missoulian story: Montana Grizzlies’ coach Mick Delaney on Jordan Johnson: Johnson has been suspended from the football team until the outcome of whatever happens, his arraignment [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The 111th Brawl of the Wild had it all, including a couple Big Sky Conference players of the week and some major hits (not including the collision with one of UM’s band bus drivers). Too many things to get in the paper really. I shrugged off the newfangled helmets that the Bobcats and Griz wore [...]

That was impressive. Say what you will about Weber State missing starting quarterback Mike Hoke, but the now-No. 10 Montana Grizzlies’ 45-10 win over the Wildcats Saturday was a thing of beauty. For example: That first touchdown pass to Peter Nguyen. The screen play has been off and on over the years for the Griz, [...]

There were impressive moments in the now No. 14-ranked Montana Grizzlies’ 33-0 win at Idaho State Saturday, including the play of Gerald Kemp. The junior played a few snaps at quarterback but was used more heavily as a slot receiver. Kemp’s first of eight receptions, for 13 yards, ended with him “trucking” an Idaho State [...]

Here’s the most recent look at Saturday’s game between No. 16 Montana and the Idaho State Bengals, who are playing in a better-lighted, nicer-carpeted, noisier Holt Arena these days. It’s the first of several possible tipping points for the Griz, who played their most complete game way back in week 2, in a 37-23 win [...]

This should be called Things I wish I’d recorded: Somehow, in all the homecoming hoopla, I forget to set my DVR for the Montana Grizzlies’ 55-28 win over Northern Colorado Saturday. Well, there’s this: At the 1:25 mark of Amanda Beterman’s Missoulian video of the game, you can see 368-pound UNC noseguard Marcus Felker going [...]