Bobcat Football Sunday Notebook
11/13/2006 12:00:00 AM | Football
INJURY REPORT: LB Will Claggett (knee) and WR Deon Toliver (collar bone) are likely lost for the balance of the season. The remainder of the Bobcat roster benefited from the open weekend physically, and enters Grizzly week in good health.
STUDENT-ATHLETE MEDIA AVAILABILITY THIS WEEK: Bobcat captains Brant Birkeland, Clive Lowe and Ryan Force are available to the media on Monday (November 13) at 12 noon in the Bill Ogle Hall of Fame in the Fieldhouse. After that interview session, Bobcat players are off-limits until following the Bobcat-Grizzly game on Saturday.
MIKE KRAMER THIS WEEK: Interviews with Mike Kramer should be arranged for Monday, November 13, through MSU Sports Information. Mike Kramer will also honor standing appointments, but would like to finish interviews as early in the week as possible.
MIKE KRAMER’S TENTATIVE MEDIA AND APPEARANCE SCHEDULE THIS WEEK
Monday: 6:45 am –Keynote Address, Montana Farm Bureau State Convention, Bozeman Holiday Inn
TBA –KJJR Radio, Kalispell (via phone)
Tuesday: 10 am – Coaches Corner, Holiday Inn
7 pm – Mike Kramer, Bobcat Quarterback Club, Great Falls
Wednesday: 6 pm – Cat Chat, Mike Kramer, hosted by Kris Atteberry, Old Chicago (100.7 KXLB-FM)
Thursday: 7 am – Mike Kramer with Pete and Colleen on XL Country 100.7 FM, Bozeman
2 pm - Bozeman in AA State Volleyball Tournament, Brick Breeden Fieldhouse
THIS WEEK’S PRACTICE SCHEDULE: Practice is 3:30 pm Monday through Thursday at Bobcat Stadium. All practices this week are closed to the public and media. MSU works out late Friday afternoon in Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
TEAM NOTES
• MSU’s six-game winning streak is the longest at Montana State since the 1984 squad won its last 10 games to win the I-AA National Championship, and it is Mike Kramer’s longest since he led Eastern Washington to the 1997 I-AA semifinals on the strength of an eight-game winning streak (which began, ironically, a week after his Eagles lost in Bozeman)
• Montana State owns five straight winning seasons for the first time since the program ran off nine straight from 1956 to ’64, and six straight winning Big Sky seasons for the first time ever
• Mike Kramer’s Bobcats are 1-3 coming out of bye weeks
• Since World War II, Montana State is 11-11 after in-season byes
• In the last 60 years, Montana State has played the Grizzlies coming off a bye week only twice – a 55-20 loss in Missoula in 1994, and a 10-9 win in Bozeman in 1961
• In spite of its six-game winning streak, MSU hasn’t won a game by more than a touchdown since topping Portland State 14-0 in Bozeman on October 7
• Saturday’s contest marks only the third time in the Division I-AA era that the Bobcats and Grizzlies square off with each team occupying a spot in the national polls
• Montana State has been outscored 59-45 in the third quarter this season, netting positive yardage only twice on its first offensive play of the second half, while the Grizzlies have thundered their opponents 111-13 in the third quarter
STUDENT-ATHLETE MEDIA AVAILABILITY THIS WEEK: Bobcat captains Brant Birkeland, Clive Lowe and Ryan Force are available to the media on Monday (November 13) at 12 noon in the Bill Ogle Hall of Fame in the Fieldhouse. After that interview session, Bobcat players are off-limits until following the Bobcat-Grizzly game on Saturday.
MIKE KRAMER THIS WEEK: Interviews with Mike Kramer should be arranged for Monday, November 13, through MSU Sports Information. Mike Kramer will also honor standing appointments, but would like to finish interviews as early in the week as possible.
MIKE KRAMER’S TENTATIVE MEDIA AND APPEARANCE SCHEDULE THIS WEEK
Monday: 6:45 am –Keynote Address, Montana Farm Bureau State Convention, Bozeman Holiday Inn
TBA –KJJR Radio, Kalispell (via phone)
Tuesday: 10 am – Coaches Corner, Holiday Inn
7 pm – Mike Kramer, Bobcat Quarterback Club, Great Falls
Wednesday: 6 pm – Cat Chat, Mike Kramer, hosted by Kris Atteberry, Old Chicago (100.7 KXLB-FM)
Thursday: 7 am – Mike Kramer with Pete and Colleen on XL Country 100.7 FM, Bozeman
2 pm - Bozeman in AA State Volleyball Tournament, Brick Breeden Fieldhouse
THIS WEEK’S PRACTICE SCHEDULE: Practice is 3:30 pm Monday through Thursday at Bobcat Stadium. All practices this week are closed to the public and media. MSU works out late Friday afternoon in Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
TEAM NOTES
• MSU’s six-game winning streak is the longest at Montana State since the 1984 squad won its last 10 games to win the I-AA National Championship, and it is Mike Kramer’s longest since he led Eastern Washington to the 1997 I-AA semifinals on the strength of an eight-game winning streak (which began, ironically, a week after his Eagles lost in Bozeman)
• Montana State owns five straight winning seasons for the first time since the program ran off nine straight from 1956 to ’64, and six straight winning Big Sky seasons for the first time ever
• Mike Kramer’s Bobcats are 1-3 coming out of bye weeks
• Since World War II, Montana State is 11-11 after in-season byes
• In the last 60 years, Montana State has played the Grizzlies coming off a bye week only twice – a 55-20 loss in Missoula in 1994, and a 10-9 win in Bozeman in 1961
• In spite of its six-game winning streak, MSU hasn’t won a game by more than a touchdown since topping Portland State 14-0 in Bozeman on October 7
• Saturday’s contest marks only the third time in the Division I-AA era that the Bobcats and Grizzlies square off with each team occupying a spot in the national polls
• Montana State has been outscored 59-45 in the third quarter this season, netting positive yardage only twice on its first offensive play of the second half, while the Grizzlies have thundered their opponents 111-13 in the third quarter
Wednesday, June 10
Friday, March 27
Monday, March 23
Friday, March 13
