MSU added to its secondary on Tuesday. Montana State bolstered its last line of defense on Tuesday, when Cory Nicol transferred into the Bobcat program. Nichol comes to MSU from the University of Washington, where he attended classes last year wit… more »

Put nine football coaches, nine football players and more than a dozen media members in a cramped hotel room and what do you get? A few good quotes. If you’re lucky, sometimes they can all pump out one of those perfect novels 100 monkeys with 100 typ… more »

In coaching circles, it is called a connection. For Montana State, the latest link involves Les Miles. How does the head coach at Louisiana State factor in? Simple. He’s the connection. Montana State recently hired former LSU graduate assistant Jo… more »

Any college football program talented enough to win or share its conference championship 10 straight years should be a good bet to make it 11 in a row, right? That's what the brain trust in the Big Sky Conference obviously believes. It was announced… more »

PARK CITY, Utah - It's a familiar name atop the coaches and media preseason polls for Big Sky Conference football, meaning the Montana Grizzlies are still wearing the bulls' eye. The Griz, who've won or shared the last 10 Big Sky titles, drew seven o… more »

It's easy to see how prevalent it is for major-college football programs to buy off their smaller brethren in order to get them to come in for what is typically an easy victory (though Michigan and mighty Appalachian State would surely tell you otherwis… more »

Over in the Gem State, a former Big Sky Conference athletic department is sporting some major new digs these days: A glassed, high-ceiling weight room with a million-dollar hydrotherapy pool on the third floor. New and spacious locker rooms. Three footb… more »

Light and fast. That is how Rob Ash likes his players on the defensive side of the ball. On Wednesday, Montana State University signed the football team’s second University of Oregon transfer this month by adding John Laidet, exactly three weeks a… more »

Looking back, Rob Ash has no regrets. It was one year ago today that Ash stood in front of reporters on the corporate level at Bobcat Stadium and was introduced as the new football coach at Montana State University. Since then, the former Drake co… more »

Jordan Rasmussen was vying to be the starting quarterback at Montana State in 2008. Now he’s gone. According to an Associated Press shorty that just moved on the wire, Rasmussen has decided to leave the Bobcats. Here’s the brief: BOZEMAN, Mon… more »

Coincidence? Yeah, it almost certainly was. But who would have blamed Montana State athletic director Peter Fields if he had planned it that way? On Thursday afternoon at Bobcat Stadium, Fields and other MSU athletic officials unveiled a $100 million… more »

$100 million plan to bring stadium's capacity to 22,000. BOZEMAN - If the proposed expansion to Bobcat Stadium becomes a reality, Montana State University will boast a football facility that, according to athletic director Peter Fields, will rank "in… more »

A year ago, Travis Lulay and Drew Brees had little in common. Other than being quarterbacks, that is. Much has changed since then. Lulay and Brees are now not only teammates, but both have made good use of the same rehabilitation doctor. Lulay,… more »

Former Montana State star running back Don Hass remembers who gave him his nickname “Iron Tumbleweed.” To this day, however, he can’t explain why he got it. “I knew Norm, because he was from Terry,” Hass said. “(The nickname) just started showing up… more »

Why is no former Montana State player or coach enshrined in the National Football Foundation’s College Football Hall of Fame? That question has bugged me since I chronicled the achievements of the 1956 and 1976 national championship teams a year and… more »