If you read my Q&A with Justin Green in last Sunday’s paper, well, let me tell you, you don’t know the half of it. I left about half the interview on the cutting-room floor. That includes an interesting bit about Green briefly getting signed by the Jets, and then released the next day for failing [...]

I’m as happy as anybody – with the obvious exception of Ty Gregorak – that Gregorak was named defensive coordinator for the Griz, replacing Mike Breske. Gregorak didn’t have the easiest 2010, a year that included a divorce; a strange arrest on charges of theft for which he was later exonerated; the ensuing loss of [...]

What a day: Montana coach Robin Pflugrad unveiled his third recruiting class, though not quite all of it – running back Joey Counts signed his letter of intent later on Wednesday. One thing I didn’t get in my main story is that Tyrone Holmes, a defensive lineman out of Oregon, had originally committed to Portland [...]

Coach Robin Pflugrad and the Montana Grizzlies announced a 2012 signing class of 23 players, but right at closing time Wednesday they added one more: RB Joey Counts. This is from Montana media relations director Dave Guffey: PLEASE ADD TO GRIZ FOOTBALL CLASS OF 2012: Joey Counts, RB, 5-9, 205, Fr., HS, Mesa, Ariz. (Desert [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The dust has settled on Montana’s 30-24 win over Portland State Saturday, and after further review… there were more close calls than previously reported. I mentioned in Sunday’s Missoulian game story that the first half could have been worse, but the defense for the now No. 12th-ranked Griz came up with a goal-line stand after [...]