Add Sept. 17 to my list

Here’s another good article from The Sports Network’s Craig Haley, listing 10 games he feels will shape the 2011 Football Championship Subdivision season. Notice he didn’t say “Top 10,” just “10 that will shape the season.” Craig’s crafty. On the list is the Sept. 24 game at Eastern Washington between the defending FCS champion Eagles [...]

Goodnight Taiwan?

The Spokesman-Review is reporting that Eastern Washington’s supremely talented running back, Taiwan Jones, is going to leave the school a year early to try for the NFL. Apart from wondering if any other underclassman at the FCS (formerly Division I-AA) level of football has even been drafted, I like the move by Jones. He’s as [...]

Why do I even try, Part II!?

I was perfect in my FCS playoff picks again last week, by which I mean a perfectly symmetrical 2-2. That brings me to 6-6 on the postseason. I got Georgia Southern over Wofford right, and Eastern Washington over North Dakota State. But for whatever reason I picked App State over a healthy Matt Szczur and [...]

Second round FCS playoff predictions

Isn’t that (to the left) sweet? We just have the sweetest guys at the UM athletic department! I kid. Some Griz fans don’t appreciate that the University of Montana took out what looks to be a quarter-page ad in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, wishing the Bobcats luck in the 2010 FCS playoffs. I’m OK with [...]

The Rivals

You’ve gotta love Cat-Griz — I call it Cat-Griz because I am 47 and when I was younger it didn’t matter which came first, Griz or Cats, and don’t get me started on Brawl of the Wild – but this Eastern Washington-Montana rivalry has some legs, doesn’t it? It’s safe to say everyone in the [...]

An FCS bump for Chase

Craig Haley, the new FCS executive director for The Sports Network, wrote this glowing piece about Chase Reynolds of the Montana Grizzlies, and what he projects as the top 10 running backs in the Football Championship Subdivision. The fact that Haley leads off his article with Reynolds is pretty high praise for the Drummond product [...]