MSU Football Sunday Notebook
11/19/2006 12:00:00 AM | Football
INJURY REPORT: The physical nature of Saturday’s Cat-Griz game manifested itself on Sunday’s injury report. RB Evin Groves (knee) is likely lost for the remainder of the season. The most prominent of the bumps and bruises suffered by the rest of the team came to QB Jack Rolovich (upper torso) and CB Michael Beach (knee), but both are expected to play. LB Will Claggett (knee) and WR Deon Toliver (collar bone) are likely lost for the season.
STUDENT-ATHLETE MEDIA AVAILABILITY THIS WEEK: MSU’s media policy returns to normal this week. Bobcat student-athletes are available by request during Tuesday’s Papa John’s Media Lunch, which occurs as normal this week at a site to be determined. Please make requests through the MSU Sports Information Office on Monday.
MIKE KRAMER THIS WEEK: Interviews with Mike Kramer should be arranged through MSU Sports Information. The Papa John’s Media Lunch works best, and Coach Kramer also honors standing appointments.
MIKE KRAMER’S TENTATIVE MEDIA AND APPEARANCE SCHEDULE THIS WEEK
Monday: 7 am – KJJR Radio, Kalispell (via phone)
12 noon – Bobcat Quarterback Club, Billings
6 pm – Bobcat Quarterback Club, Bozeman
Tuesday: 10 am – Coaches Corner, Holiday Inn
7 pm – Mike Kramer, Bobcat Quarterback Club, Great Falls
Wednesday: 12 noon – Bobcat Quarterback Club, Helena
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
12 noon – Bobcat Quarterback Club, Butte
THIS WEEK’S PRACTICE SCHEDULE: MSU practices at 3:30 pm on Monday and Tuesday this week, at 11:30 am Wednesday and Thursday, all on the practice field, and 2 pm on Friday at the Stadium.
TEAM NOTES
• Montana State is one of three college football teams hosting playoff games in the Treasure State on Saturday, joining Montana (vs. McNeese State) in Missoula and defending NAIA National Champion Carroll College (vs. St. Xavier) in Helena
• The ‘Cats and Furman have never met on the gridiron
• Montana State’s five straight winning seasons is the program’s longest such string since the running off nine straight from 1956 to ’64
• MSU’s six straight winning Big Sky seasons is a program first
• Mike Kramer’s Bobcats are now 1-4 coming out of bye weeks, while the Bobcats are 11-12 since World War II
• Ten current Bobcats were in the program in 2003 the last time MSU qualified for the playoffs, and fifth-year seniors Clive Lowe (DE), Ryan Force (SS), Joe Hirst (OT), and Brant Birkeland (OG) traveled to Cedar Falls
• Montana State’s last home playoff game was December 8, 1984, when the ‘Cats beat Rhode Island to earn a trip to the I-AA National Championship game, in which MSU beat Louisiana Tech a week later
• A well-coiffed Mike Kramer served as an assistant on that 1984 Bobcat team, Associate AD and Bobcat Radio Network color analyst Dan Davies was an assistant, and safety Joe Roberts, the father of current MSU redshirt freshman Joe Roberts, returned an interception for a touchdown against Rhode Island
• Montana scored 118 points in the third quarter this year, but only seven of them against MSU
STUDENT-ATHLETE MEDIA AVAILABILITY THIS WEEK: MSU’s media policy returns to normal this week. Bobcat student-athletes are available by request during Tuesday’s Papa John’s Media Lunch, which occurs as normal this week at a site to be determined. Please make requests through the MSU Sports Information Office on Monday.
MIKE KRAMER THIS WEEK: Interviews with Mike Kramer should be arranged through MSU Sports Information. The Papa John’s Media Lunch works best, and Coach Kramer also honors standing appointments.
MIKE KRAMER’S TENTATIVE MEDIA AND APPEARANCE SCHEDULE THIS WEEK
Monday: 7 am – KJJR Radio, Kalispell (via phone)
12 noon – Bobcat Quarterback Club, Billings
6 pm – Bobcat Quarterback Club, Bozeman
Tuesday: 10 am – Coaches Corner, Holiday Inn
7 pm – Mike Kramer, Bobcat Quarterback Club, Great Falls
Wednesday: 12 noon – Bobcat Quarterback Club, Helena
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
12 noon – Bobcat Quarterback Club, Butte
THIS WEEK’S PRACTICE SCHEDULE: MSU practices at 3:30 pm on Monday and Tuesday this week, at 11:30 am Wednesday and Thursday, all on the practice field, and 2 pm on Friday at the Stadium.
TEAM NOTES
• Montana State is one of three college football teams hosting playoff games in the Treasure State on Saturday, joining Montana (vs. McNeese State) in Missoula and defending NAIA National Champion Carroll College (vs. St. Xavier) in Helena
• The ‘Cats and Furman have never met on the gridiron
• Montana State’s five straight winning seasons is the program’s longest such string since the running off nine straight from 1956 to ’64
• MSU’s six straight winning Big Sky seasons is a program first
• Mike Kramer’s Bobcats are now 1-4 coming out of bye weeks, while the Bobcats are 11-12 since World War II
• Ten current Bobcats were in the program in 2003 the last time MSU qualified for the playoffs, and fifth-year seniors Clive Lowe (DE), Ryan Force (SS), Joe Hirst (OT), and Brant Birkeland (OG) traveled to Cedar Falls
• Montana State’s last home playoff game was December 8, 1984, when the ‘Cats beat Rhode Island to earn a trip to the I-AA National Championship game, in which MSU beat Louisiana Tech a week later
• A well-coiffed Mike Kramer served as an assistant on that 1984 Bobcat team, Associate AD and Bobcat Radio Network color analyst Dan Davies was an assistant, and safety Joe Roberts, the father of current MSU redshirt freshman Joe Roberts, returned an interception for a touchdown against Rhode Island
• Montana scored 118 points in the third quarter this year, but only seven of them against MSU
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