Rob Tesch left MSU as its all-time leading receiver
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#84 - 84 Days til Kickoff 2012
6/7/2012 8:23:00 AM | Football
A look at Montana State players who have worn #84 through the years
Bobcat by the Numbers takes a look at current and past Bobcats that correspond to the number of days remaining before Montana State opens the 2012 football season against Chadron State in Bobcat Stadium's first night game on August 30.
#84
Brian Flotkoetter, WR: A promising young receiver, Brian Flotkoetter caught his first pass as a Bobcat in the team's playoff loss at Sam Houston State. Flotkoetter was a multiple-sport standout at Laurel High, and became the first Locomotive to join the Bobcats since offensive lineman Chris Smith about a decade earlier.
Spotlight: Make no mistake about it, Cliff Hysell did not like throwing the football. Montana State's coach from 1992-99 proudly told anyone who would listen – except potential quarterback and receiver recruits, presumably – that his goal was for the Bobcats to be able to play an entire game without throwing a forward pass. One of the players that made that an impossibility was Tony Vallez, a fantastic receiver who wore #84 in 1997. Touchdown Tony wasn't necessarily fast or flashy by the video-game standards of the Big Sky Conference in the 1990s, led by ahead-of-the-game offensive coordinator Jim McElwain the Bobcats were discovering the forward pass the way an awkward teenager might discover girls at a junior high dance. And even with sleek receiver Chip Hobbs on the scene, Vallez was the belle of the ball. He 974 receiving yards in 1997 stood as third-most in school history to that point, and he became the first Bobcat to log a 200-yard receiving game (doing so twice).
Chronology: Del Layman (1956), Norman Phillips (1957), Ed Popik (1959), John Hahn (1960), Jim Ratcheye (1961-63), Gary Richards (1964-66), Bob Workman (1967, '69), Ray Schneider (1968), Phil O'Meara (1971), Randy Fought (1972-73), Mark Allison (1974), Bob Lubig (1975), Mark Mading (1976), Greg Adolph (1977), Eric Harlington (1979), Bruce McKean (1980), Kent Schaefer (1982), Shawn Bohannan (1984-85), Andy Holmlund (1986), Rob Tesch (1988-92), Erik Iverson (1993), Chad Farrington (1994-95), Matt Neumann (1996), Tony Vallez (1997), Cody Van Horne (1998), Phil Espinoza (1999), Corey Smith (2000-03), Brandon Bostick (2004-08), Brian Flotkoetter (2010-)
#84
Brian Flotkoetter, WR: A promising young receiver, Brian Flotkoetter caught his first pass as a Bobcat in the team's playoff loss at Sam Houston State. Flotkoetter was a multiple-sport standout at Laurel High, and became the first Locomotive to join the Bobcats since offensive lineman Chris Smith about a decade earlier.
Spotlight: Make no mistake about it, Cliff Hysell did not like throwing the football. Montana State's coach from 1992-99 proudly told anyone who would listen – except potential quarterback and receiver recruits, presumably – that his goal was for the Bobcats to be able to play an entire game without throwing a forward pass. One of the players that made that an impossibility was Tony Vallez, a fantastic receiver who wore #84 in 1997. Touchdown Tony wasn't necessarily fast or flashy by the video-game standards of the Big Sky Conference in the 1990s, led by ahead-of-the-game offensive coordinator Jim McElwain the Bobcats were discovering the forward pass the way an awkward teenager might discover girls at a junior high dance. And even with sleek receiver Chip Hobbs on the scene, Vallez was the belle of the ball. He 974 receiving yards in 1997 stood as third-most in school history to that point, and he became the first Bobcat to log a 200-yard receiving game (doing so twice).
Chronology: Del Layman (1956), Norman Phillips (1957), Ed Popik (1959), John Hahn (1960), Jim Ratcheye (1961-63), Gary Richards (1964-66), Bob Workman (1967, '69), Ray Schneider (1968), Phil O'Meara (1971), Randy Fought (1972-73), Mark Allison (1974), Bob Lubig (1975), Mark Mading (1976), Greg Adolph (1977), Eric Harlington (1979), Bruce McKean (1980), Kent Schaefer (1982), Shawn Bohannan (1984-85), Andy Holmlund (1986), Rob Tesch (1988-92), Erik Iverson (1993), Chad Farrington (1994-95), Matt Neumann (1996), Tony Vallez (1997), Cody Van Horne (1998), Phil Espinoza (1999), Corey Smith (2000-03), Brandon Bostick (2004-08), Brian Flotkoetter (2010-)
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