Category: Portland State Vikings
Lot of respect for Big Sky Conference in preseason polls
Nobody who follows NCAA Football Championship Subdivision schools should be surprised to learn that Appalachian State is the odds-on favorite to win another national championship.
All three major preseason polls listed the Mountaineers as the team to… more »
Three Pedersens (two of them twins) boost PSU's linebacking
Former Southridge standout returns to lineup, while Hawaii transfer and his brother join the mix
As if having to deal with one Pedersen at linebacker wasn’t enough for Portland State opponents, now other teams will have two more of them to worry abo… more »
Big Sky and regional players in the NFL
Other Big Sky teams with pros
Name Pos. NFL team NFL exp.
Montana
Cory Procter C Dallas 4
Jimmy Farris WR Washington 5
Kroy Biermann DE Atlanta R
Tuff Harris CB New Orleans 2
Lex Hilliard RB Miami R
Justin Green RB Baltimore 4
Montana Sta… more »
PSU football camp: Day 6
Six practices down after Saturday, and 23 left to go -- counting six sets of daily-doubles -- before the Aug. 30 opener against Western Oregon at PGE Park.
Vikings coach Jerry Glanville has been encouraged by some of what he has seen, but said he did… more »
Competition Wide Open as Portland State Opens Camp
As the first preseason practice neared its end this morning, Portland State football coach Jerry Glanville peeked at his watch and mumbled something nasty under his breath.
Glanville had 10 more things he wanted to do but only enough time to get to t… more »
Porland State's Glanville Sees a Whole Lot Of Boxes & Nobody Knows What's Underneath
The start of his second year at the helm of Portland State's fall football practice is less than a week away and head coach Jerry Glanville is getting excited about boxes.
Mind you, these are not cardboard boxes or boxes full of presents, but boxes h… more »
Tempered expectations
After struggling last year, Vikings look to improve, gain experience in 2008
For the two primary figureheads of Portland State football, Jerry Glanville and Darrell "Mouse" Davis, to speak about youth is, in a word, ironic.
But that is what Glanv… more »
Glanville must narrow down wide receivers
There are 21 on PSU's roster, but most are still trying to figure out the run and shoot playbook
As the first preseason practice neared its end Monday morning, Portland State football coach Jerry Glanville peeked at his watch and mumbled something na… more »
Vikings thrilled to have their fullback back
Coaches want strong-man McClintock to refine his running style
The Portland State Vikings took the field for their first football practice of the season on Monday, and no one was more excited about it than junior fullback Bobby McClintock.
After g… more »
'A work in progress'
Jerry Glanville overhauls the roster to give the Vikings a better chance to improve on last season's 3-8 record
Portland State coach Jerry Glanville popped the cap off the felt-tipped marker on his desk and scratched out a diagram of a 22-man footbal… more »
Glanville starts over, again, at Portland State
The biggest news out of the annual Big Sky Summer Kickoff was, perhaps, that the Montana Grizzlies were favored again to win the conference football title.
The second-biggest is that Jerry Glanville thinks his Portland State Vikings might be rated to… more »
Vikings love 'Camp Glanville' — or is it 'Camp Schantz?'
Personable linebacker from San Diego steals the show
“Camp Glanville,” Comcast Sports Network’s reality series featuring Portland State coach Jerry Glanville and his Vikings, has an inadvertent star.
It’s Andy Schantz, the senior linebacker whose… more »
For PSU, the best is likely to come later
Glanville expects to spend season grooming young players
Coaches and media agree that Portland State will finish sixth in the Big Sky Conference this season. At the risk of sounding like the all-time poor-mouthing champion of college football, Lou Ho… more »
The Top 10 quotes from Big Sky media days
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 »
The lazy summertime? Not for PSU's players
Voluntary workouts and 7-on-7 games will help the Vikings hit the ground running (and shooting) when preseason camp starts Aug. 4
Junior wide receiver Lavonte Kirven sat quietly in the second row of the Portland State meeting room, watching as three… more »