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IRON MAN

Weidenaar rewrites record books with longevity and consistency

BY PARKER GABRIEL

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John Weidenaar once missed a full week of practice.

An awkward fall during 2012’s 16-7 triumph over Montana left his ankle swollen and painted a gruesome palette of black, blue and green, forcing the then-redshirt freshman to relinquish his post at left tackle for the third week of November.

When it happened, the Bobcats had the luxury of time. A 10-1 record and Big Sky championship secured a two-week break between their regularseason finale and a home playoff game against Stony Brook.

Weidenaar isn’t sure if he would have been able to play without the extra rest, but at the same time might have elected to try to soldier through if his team needed it.

Most would bet on the latter.

After all, the senior has since surrendered barely a minute to a sport that has taken so much time away from so many. Here, Weidenaar kept showing up for work every day. He kept demanding — mostly of himself — that he not miss a drill, a practice, a workout, a meeting, and thus kept building on a reputation.

Football is full of stories about tough guys, and Montana State is no different. In a place where sons of ranchers become linebackers and tackles and the thermometer is at risk of dipping below zero before the regular season concludes, a compelling gridiron tale is never far from the ear.

In the category of longevity, Mike Person and Brent Swaggert are leading examples. Person started 47 consecutive games between 2007 and 2010, coming within one of the mark Swaggert set nearly a decade earlier.

Nobody has ever started 49 straight here.

Until today.

When Weidenaar trots onto the Bobcat Stadium turf for his final collegiate game with 10 teammates and a career of battle scars in tow, he will have done so more times than anybody in program history.

“He’s just the toughest, most resilient person I’ve ever met,” said senior center Joel Horn, himself a two-year starter with more than a few bumps and bruises.

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John Weidenaar has started every game at left tackle since the beginning of his redshirt freshman season. He’s in position to break Brent Swaggert’s record of 48 consecutive starts. Said teammate Joel Horn, “I can’t imagine what it’s like for four years. It’s incredible that he’s done it.”

“He doesn’t ever stop and won’t ever let himself be taken out. He won’t miss anything. He’s just incredible that way.”

Every time the Bobcats have kicked off since the beginning of Weidenaar’s redshirt freshman year, the 6-foot-8 son of Brian and Gail has been in uniform.

At this moment, folded into a chair in MSU’s athletic offices and asked if he can wrap his mind around the totality of 49 games, his gut reaction comes from the present.

“My body can comprehend it,” Weidenaar said. “It hurts a lot right now.”

Then, the man who’s etched a legacy by putting one foot in front of the other and rarely allowing for anything but the next step also manages to look back.

“I was never out to prove anything to anybody,” he said. “I was just there and able to play and do my job. When I signed here at Montana State, my initial thinking was, ‘When you sign up to do something, you sign to do it your best.’”

For Weidenaar, playing one’s best means being available. It meant going from less than 220 pounds as a true freshman to nearly 270 in his redshirt

year knowing offensive line coach Jason McEndoo needed him at left tackle. It meant playing through whatever physical discomfort materialized.

“You’re not very valuable if you’re not there, especially with how football goes and how sports go in general,” he said.

“If you’re not available or you can’t play because you’re injured, you can’t help the team out.”

The Manhattan native said he’s started less than 10 games without some kind of nagging ailment.

“Usually it’s the first game of the season because you’re all jacked to start the season,” he added. “Then, some big games where you just have such an adrenaline rush that you don’t feel any pain.”

Glendive’s Person had a similar response.

“Four times, the first game of the season each year,” he joked before reducing the number even further. “My junior year, I went into Week 1 and I had two broken ribs, so you’re never feeling good.”

Swaggert is the anomaly. The Buffalo, Minnesota native said he only played in

one or two games where he didn’t feel “90 to 95 percent,” and now, as a teacher and football coach at Saint Francis High in his home state, he has trouble convincing parents he really never got hurt.

That temperament didn’t surprise his former teammate, MSU co-defensive coordinator Kane Ioane.

“The thing that I loved most about Brent Swaggert was how much fun he had on the football field,” said Ioane, who started the same four seasons as his offensive counterpart under coach Mike Kramer. “That guy came to work every day with a smile on his face and made it seem like he wanted to be out here every day. It didn’t matter if it was the middle of two-a-days or November and December in the middle of a snowstorm, Swaggert was out there with no sleeves on and playing and just having fun.”

Weidenaar was sleeveless in the blowing snow at practice recently, but doesn’t mesh with Ioane’s description of Swaggert as always being “a big kid on the field.”

Instead, the reserved man of deep Christian faith has a seriousness about him that comes from his family.

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His mother used to work for Montana State, but now is employed at the airport — “closer to home,” John says — while his father runs the family potato farm.

“When you talk to him and his dad, it’s ‘Were getting up at 5 in the morning and doing this, then John will be over for practice and then he’ll go back and get back on the farm and then he has some homework to do,’” MSU offensive coordinator Tim Cramsey said. “I just remember the one day we had off in (fall) camp this year, John went back to Manhattan and spent 10 hours on the potato farm, so his day off was harder than his days on. That’s just who John is.”

Weidenaar lived on campus most of his time at MSU, but currently resides at home and helps out when he can, an arrangement made possible by the decision to attend school 25 miles away.

He said he grew up without much interest in the ’Cat-Griz rivalry, but leaned toward the maroon and silver — “Thankfully not anymore. I’ve got my head on straight.”

He had scholarship offers from both and also Idaho. Football-wise, he wanted two things: to play at the FBS level, and to do it at defensive end. The Vandals offered both, and the Griz wanted him on defense.

He instead chose MSU, the FCS and the offensive line. “(One of the things) that won out was there was a lot of solid, Christian guys on

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“I just remember the one day we had off in (fall) camp this year, John went back to Manhattan and spent 10 hours on the potato farm, so his day off was harder than his days on.

That’s just who John is.”

— Tim Cramsey, MSU offensive coordinator

the team,” he said. “That aspect of the team really drew me in versus over there (in Missoula), it wasn’t as much of an influence.”

Five years later, the pull is toward the NFL and away from home. For most with any semblance of a chance to play professionally, the choice is a no-brainer. Weidenaar is not like most, however. He’s always made decisions his own way.

“I feel like I can. Is it something I want to pursue? It’s in the mind. It’s in the choices of what I want to do with my future,” he said. “Have I 100 percent decided? No, be-

cause we have two more weeks here and I don’t want to take away from anything that I have right in front of me.”

Swaggert and Person both know about that part of the path. Person is now with the Atlanta Falcons, his fifth team in as many seasons since being drafted by San Francisco in 2011. He didn’t start his first four years and was cut by the 49ers, Indianapolis and Seattle before completing his rookie contract. Now, he’s started all eight games for the Falcons, a sudden mainstay for a team in strong playoff contention.

“The big thing is to not get discouraged,” Person said. “After the season, for John it’ll be a big few months until the draft, and there’s going to be ups and downs, but don’t get discouraged by any means. It’s the same, too, with your career. Stuff is going to happen, and you just can’t let it get to you.”

That’s not likely to be a problem for a guy who said he wanted to do something to the best of his ability and subsequently forged a resume no MSU alumnus can match. It’s also not something Weidenaar will worry about just yet. He’s got one Saturday remaining here, and it’s a guarantee he won’t be thinking about records or future prospects.

“To me, what it means is I get to take the field with my friends for the 49th time in my career,” he said.

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REIGN MEN 2005 Bobcats last to topple rival Grizzlies at home

BY J O N M A L E T Z

T

ravis Lulay emerged from the heap of blue, gold, maroon and silver favoring his ankle.

Had Montana State’s season continued past that week, the swift-footed redhead doubts he could have played.

“It was tender for a couple months,” he recalls. “It would’ve been touch and go.”

He was staying put on this unseasonably warm November afternoon, however. Despite daunting circumstances, chief among them trying to navigate a mud-strewn, slick tract while under constant siege from Bobby Hauck’s

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aggressive Montana defense, Lulay was not leaving this game.

He was not leaving the game.

“It was never an option in my mind,” Lulay says. “If you see the old highlights, it’s funny because I was tossing the ball and trying to carry out the boot fake and everyone could tell I didn’t have the ball. I was really hobbling.

“It didn’t matter. I wanted to finish it the right way.”

So did classmate Mac Mollohan, who earlier in that 2005 campaign partially tore a hip muscle and was sidelined for three contests.

Had he grayshirted, the former Kalispell

Flathead standout linebacker could have returned to full strength the following fall and no doubt bolstered his professional prospects.

He would’ve missed this, however.

“I was kind of going back and forth with it,” Mollohan remembers, “but ultimately, I knew I wanted to finish with the guys I came in with.”

The class arguably was one of the most influential in program history.

They arrived in Bozeman on the heels of a winless 2001 campaign.

Travis Lulay

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CHRONICLE FILE PHOTOS

ABOVE: The Bobcats defense sacked Montana’s Cole Bergquist three times, forced 19 incompletions, held Lex Hilliard, the league’s second-leading rusher, to 75 yards and surrendered just 220 total in 2005’s matchup.

RIGHT: Jeff Hastings converted three field goals to help the Bobcats secure the victory.

By the time they departed, a town, an intense but one-sided rivalry and a long-dormant program had been resuscitated.

“I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or not, but it seemed like enrollment increased every year after that first one, and we were getting more in-state recruits,” former offensive lineman Jeff Bolton says. “I think it had a huge impact, especially around town. Everybody was flying the flag.”

Adds Lulay, “I remember distinctly when we were playing a November game against Portland State our true freshman year. Mathematically, we still are alive when it comes to the playoffs and winning the conference, and there are less than 10,000 people in the stands. … By the time I left, the stadium was always sold out, there was always excitement, we were a perennial Top-25 team and it was just a different atmosphere. I take pride in that — it’s exciting to know we were on the front of the wave of some really good years for the program.”

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That wave began when “The Streak” came crashing down in the snow and unrelenting wind on a 2002 afternoon in Missoula.

With precocious Lulay at the controls and a late assist from Mollohan — he appeared to be clipped on a kickoff, but still managed to lunge and trip a Grizzlies returner — the Bobcats prevailed, 10-7, snapping a 16game slide against their bitter rivals.

Lulay, unaware of MSU’s series futility until midway through that season — a fact that elicited some ribbing from upperclassmen — made good on his promise to “change things in a hurry.”

Bolton knew allegiances ran deep in the Treasure State — his high school coach in Hailey, Idaho, an MSU alumnus, once brazenly turned away Montana recruiters. Now, he was experiencing it firsthand.

“When we came home that 10 ’CAT-GRIZ 2015

says. “We weren’t going to lose to those guys. There was no way that was going to happen. … That rivalry, man, it really strikes a nerve, really makes you want to put on pads and get out there and hit somebody again.”

The Bobcats finished 7-4 overall and 5-2 in conference play that season. One week prior, they were effectively eliminated from postseason contention with a 34-17 defeat CONTRIBUTED PHOTO at Eastern Washington.

Bobcats, from left, Mac Mollohan, Jeff Bolton, Lawrence Figueroa, Travis No matter. The chance to Lulay, Grant Elliott, Nick Marudas and Ryan Force celebrate after the win. be 1-0 in the finale was all the motivation MSU needed. night — it was late — we had 19, 2005, when the Bobcats se“That game means everypeople standing outside the cured a rivalry win and a share thing,” Bolton says. “Just talking bus and cheering,” Bolton of the Big Sky crown for the about it now makes the hair on recalls with a grin while loung- third time in four seasons. my neck stand up.” ing in an area coffee shop on It was the best such run for Adds Lulay, “I don’t know a recent morning. “I wouldn’t the program since the 1960s. if it’s my quarterback brain or say it was overwhelming, but It was the last time MSU what, but I can recount plays, it was intense. It was a huge toppled UM at home. remember the play name, what deal.”

“It was easily the most the thought process was on my That wave concluded at emotional sporting event I’ve reads. I definitely remember it mucky Bobcat Stadium on Nov. ever been a part of,” Bolton quite well.

Former MSU linebacker Mac Mollohan said of 2005’s clash, “It was a mud pit. … The conditions obviously weren’t the greatest, but at least it wasn’t freezing cold. It made for an interesting game.”

“The scoreboard didn’t quite do the day justice, but it was a special time.”

The Bobcats defense sacked Cole Bergquist three times, forced 19 incompletions, held Lex Hilliard, the league’s second-leading rusher, to 75 yards and surrendered just 220 total.

Their offensive counterparts struck first with a 14-play, 90yard march capped by tailback Evin Groves’ 3-yard plunge, and bolstered their advantage with three Jeff Hastings field goals.

Lulay threw just one pass in the fourth quarter — Groves kept the chains moving with a career-high 143 yards, 96 in the final 30 minutes alone — and wound up 83 shy of the Big Sky’s total yardage record.

That was of little import, however, when he gutted out a third-and-short sneak with five minutes remaining, and then knelt three times in the final two minutes.

Mollohan remembers watching that clock intently with mixed feelings.

“That’s the really tough part at the end of the game, just knowing that you won but your time’s up,” he says. “It was like two highs. … When it’s done, it’s like, ‘What am I going to do now? How am I going to get this same feeling?’

“I had multiple déjà vu moments. I felt like I had seen the end of the game already play out — I could’ve called the plays before they happened. It was one big emotional build-up.”

The excitement spilled out of the bleachers after the final whistle blew and a 16-6 triumph was affirmed. Fans flooded the field to congratulate their heroes and giddily tear down the uprights.

“Even if we didn’t have the best season, people were coming down from the stands thanking us for beating the Griz,” Bolton says. “There was an older women with kids crying because we won — that’s how important this is to people around here, around this state.”

Adds Lulay, “I remember a bunch of people being on the field when we won in Bozeman in 2003 for the first time in almost 20 years. I wondered if we did it again if it would feel the same.

It did.

“I heard a goal post wound up at the R Bar. … It was chaos, but it was fun.”

The field would empty, but the classmates lingered as the sun slowly descended behind the snow-capped Bridgers.

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Bobcats players and fans celebrate on the field after securing a third victory in four seasons over the rival Grizzlies.

“It was a beautiful day,” Lulay says.

“That’s a special bond you form with guys in college. You come in as freshman, an 18-year-old leaving home for the first time, and you’re all from different places but you work your tails off for a common goal. …

We didn’t know what was going to happen after that, but for that moment, we felt invincible.”

Adds Mollohan, “We have bragging rights forever.”

That pride comes rushing back each fall, this week in particular. Cellphones will ring. Facebook profile pictures of teammates and former foes alike inevitably will be swapped for snapshots from the past.

Much has changed in a decade, but some things always remain the same.

Bolton, a father of two young girls and a firefighter and paramedic in Belgrade, will no doubt be jawing with his shift captain, a diehard Montana fan.

The well-traveled Mollohan, now an accomplished personal trainer at Equinox in Southern California, will be following the action intently from afar.

Lulay, a 10-year Canadian Football League veteran and 2011 Grey Cup

champion, will be donning his Bobcats gear and huddling with current BC Lions teammate and former Bobcat Zach Minter.

He will be eager to update the quarterback room whiteboard, where each signal caller’s alma mater and record are permanently displayed.

“It’s like any other tradition, like any holiday. It’s the time of year when I’ll be wearing my blue and gold proudly. Needless to say, every guy in the locker room knows I went to Montana State,” Lulay jokes.

Adds Bolton, “I’m sure if they win it’ll be a reenactment of 2005. I hope this is the year they bring the trophy back home where it belongs.”

“It was a beautiful day. That’s a special bond you form with guys in college. You come in as freshman, an 18-year-old leaving home for the first time, and you’re all from different places but you work your tails off for a common goal. … We didn’t know what was going to happen after that, but for that moment, we felt invincible.”

— Travis Lulay, former Montana State quarterback

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ZONE Montana State receiver, Bozeman native Kalfell prospers in final season

BY JON MALETZ CHRONICLE SPORTS EDITOR

H

e did not bother glancing back as he sprinted to his position and the call was barked from the sideline.

It did not matter that Manny Kalfell was not expected to be on the field; the opportunity arose solely because sophomore standout wide receiver Mitchell Herbert needed a spell and motioned for a replacement. It did not matter that the senior from Bozeman did not run “Tito” once during the previous week of practice.

He knew exactly what to do.

“I tried to just calm myself down, tell myself it was just another pitch and catch, just another day of practice,” Kalfell recalled of the first-quarter sequence during Halloween’s visit to North Dakota.

As Dakota Prukop fielded the snap and promptly tossed back to Mitch Griebel, Kalfell barreled upfield and streaked across the middle. Griebel, a former Air Force

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signal caller, lofted a near-perfect ball that hit his teammate in stride.

Kalfell gained separation, secured the pass and took off for the end zone, breathlessly diving across the Alerus Center goal line as a defensive back closed in.

The 61-yard touchdown connection, Kalfell’s first at Montana State, momentarily knotted the game.

“He didn’t realize I was calling that play, and got pretty excited when I did,” offensive coordinator Tim Cramsey said, jokingly adding, “I told Manny it was a good thing he was open by 15 yards, because he only made it into the end zone by 1.”

Added Kalfell, “I watched it over again, and I think it was less than 10 — maybe 9.

I’m lucky I had that full 9, though, because that was a pretty long ways.”

Kalfell is used to taking the long way.

A largely unheralded member of the Hawks’ 2010 Class AA state championship squad who caught just six balls in high school, he walked on at his hometown university.

He redshirted in 2011, was a scout team receiver the following season and logged

just one reception in 2013 while primarily appearing on special teams and backing up a talented receiving corps.

He figured 2014 would be different.

Prukop and position coach Kody Kempt sure did, too.

Kalfell sported a new number — swapping 83 for 8, which he wore at Bozeman High — and added muscle. He arrived for fall camp at 6-foot-2 and a robust 200 pounds, and projected an air of selfassurance that belied his experience.

“I sometimes have to do a double take,” Kempt told the Chronicle then. “He looks like a completely different person.”

One lauded for his persistence and versatility and expected to contribute at both X and Z positions. Cramsey even favorably compared Kalfell to former Bobcats standout Tanner Bleskin.

“He’s one of those types of guys that really represents our program with that whole attitude that, ‘I’m going to work until I get what I want, and I’m not going to take no for an answer,’” Prukop said. “Look at him now; he’s out here with the ones dominating.”

Kalfell secured a starting spot and caught a pair of passes for 59 yards. A promising opening stretch was abruptly derailed, however, with a Week 3 injury against Central Arkansas.

He was sidelined after tearing both a meniscus and articular cartilage.

He would not play again.

“It’s just a whole lot of adversity that you’ve just got to fight through,” Kalfell said. “I don’t see it as a wall, I see it as fuel for my fire. I’ve always had a chip on my shoulder — it’s a blessing and a curse — and it gets bigger with every setback.”

It must be enormous now.

He was on schedule through the spring and summer, and appeared healthy and determined come August. Kalfell was shelved with a hamstring injury, however, during the first week of drills.

“I might have been milking it a little bit and overcompensating on my right leg,” Kalfell admits. “My left hamstring didn’t like that too much.

“I was down on myself, sure, but then I knew I needed to get back, to keep pushing. I felt forgotten. I decided I needed to make myself seen again.”

That would take time.

Kalfell made a brief appearance in the opener against Fort Lewis, but didn’t suit up again until Oct. 24’s home game against East Tennessee State.

His 9-yard reception on a smoke screen understandably could have been overlooked — it was little more than a footnote in a 63-7 non-conference runaway.

Kalfell and Kempt knew better, though.

“That was a great feeling for Manny and for the entire team,” Kempt, a former MSU quarterback, remarked.

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“He’s always stayed cloud — beyond positive. He’s a detercloud nine. I’ve mined young man who just got to enjoy it, works extremely hard, appreciate it while so setbacks haven’t reit lasts. ally set him back. … A “It absolutely lot of guys in his situameant everything tion could’ve easily put to me. Every week their head down, not out here means worked very hard and everything to me. potentially been out I’m doing better for the whole season. at capturing every He wasn’t going to almoment because low that to happen.”

I know how easily Added Kalfell, “I and quickly things waited too long and can be taken watched too many away.” practices. It was such He knows better an amazing experithan to look ahead, ence, and I can’t even but Kalfell admits explain how excited I he’s given some was and how fortunate thought to the rich I felt to be back out subplots that could MSU wide receiver Manny Kalfell on playing against the Grizzlies in the final game present themselves there. of his career, “I hope I get the chance to contribute, and I hope we can win.”

“I was never going against the Grizto quit. I was never zlies in the final going to stop because game of his career. later with another career pass for my first touchdown of those guys out there, and I “I try not to think about milestone. Griebel was happy because we’ve been through it have a wonderful support sys- to share it with his former all together,’” the fellow senior that now, but yes, that’s going tem. Those kinds of setbacks to be one big game,” he said. roommate. said. “It was a pretty special make you want to push harder “I hope I get the chance to “He came up to me after, moment for us.” and harder.” contribute, and I hope we can and he’s like, ‘I wouldn’t want Added Kalfell, “It was just He was rewarded one week win.” anybody else to throw me that another pedestal, just another

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BY PARKER GABRIEL CHRONICLE SPORTS WRITER

The Brawl of the Wild traditionally conjures images of frigid conditions and rugged play, boys from opposite sides of the divide battling in the trenches, fighting for yards on something like permafrost.

Indeed, 51 of the 114 meetings between these rivals have totaled fewer than 30 points, and on 28 occasions, the sides have failed to reach 20.

While those kinds of clashes have become more sporadic in recent years, some of the most ferocious contests

— Montana State’s 16-6 win in 2005, Montana’s 13-7 triumph the following year, or MSU’s 16-7 victory in Missoula in 2012 — have also been among the lowest scoring.

When the teams arrive at Bobcat Stadium today, though, the same shift in offensive philosophy that has swept across the country will also have completed its move through the Treasure State.

The depth charts of the two teams combine to show seven starting wide receivers, one tight end and no fullbacks.

“I’m old enough that I go way back to where, when I was a kid, football was

just coming out of the single wing days and into the so-called modern tailback type of formations,” MSU head coach Rob Ash said. “There’s been a ton of evolution with the game now.”

That change, at least the latest stages of it, has been underway for three years in Bozeman under the guidance of Ash and offensive coordinator Tim Cramsey. It began in Missoula with the December hiring of Bob Stitt from Colorado School of Mines.

Stitt earned a following in college circles for his wide-open attack and for designing plays like the fly sweep, which now is found in the playbooks of many of the sport’s innovators.

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If you’re packed in, they run the jet sweep. If you’re spread out, they run inside zone.”

Cramsey has said repeatedly he dislikes the term “spread offense” because teams that line up in shotgun with multiple receivers don’t do the same thing. UM’s been through three starting quarterbacks because of injury this season, but a look at these two offenses at full strength highlights what the MSU coordinator is talking about.

“We’re going to have heavier personnel than they do. I think that’s a major difference between the two,” Ash said. “We still use two tight ends and an H-back kind of guy sometimes, and they never do. We still have that element.”

Brady Gustafson started the first three games, and the Grizzlies threw the ball 65 percent of the time. Even after two games with Chad Chalich under center, UM was still throwing at a nearly 60 percent clip. Only since Makena Simis took over has Stitt been forced to fully alter the play-calling for an athlete more comfortable running the ball.

“What we did early against North Dakota State, Liberty and Cal Poly, those are the things we kind of started with as a base offense and then we build throughout the year,” Stitt said. “You’ve got to adjust to your personnel, and it’s not exactly what we want to be, but we will recruit to what we want to be and implement as we go.”

Meanwhile, Cramsey wants to run the ball every week, and quarterback Dakota Prukop is usually a big part of that equation.

“Now, the quarterback is a tailback and you’re leaving guys unblocked — it’s really a throwback to option football,” said Ash, whose team has kept the ball on the ground on 59 percent of its snaps. “You’re working off the line and in the backfield instead of right on the line, which caused a lot of turnovers.

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“Cramsey’s offense is way different than anything I ever ran when I was coordinating with all the jet-sweep motion and unbalanced and wacky formations and play-action and so forth.”

Most of the time, those exotic looks are meant to either disguise something simple or give a tried-and-true scheme more room to be effective.

“I think that’s what the term ‘spread’ is — you’re recruiting a different athlete nowadays,” Cramsey said. “You’re recruiting a guy with speed and not so much a big guy that can bench press 500 pounds and squat 600 pounds. … If you force a defender to align three steps outside, you just got yourself another yard and a half of lanes you can get your athlete through.”

Against North Dakota, MSU scored a touchdown on a double pass. Prukop threw backward to Mitch Griebel, who hoisted it down the sideline to Manny Kalfell.

Later in the game, Cramsey called for the same action to

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Sophomore wide receiver Mitchell Herbert is among several weapons Montana State uses in its up-tempo offense. The Bobcats still rely heavily on the rushing game, but use Herbert and others to create mismatches.

the other side of the field, but had Griebel throw back across for Prukop instead of down the sideline. The UND defense pursued hard, and if not for an overthrow, Prukop was all alone.

While both would generally be referred to as trick plays, the sequence is really the same

concept as running power and mixing in a counter.

“It’s still a misdirection play, but let’s use 53 1/3 (yards, the width of the field),” Cramsey said. “You make them run even further back and forth.

If you spread the field out, they’ve got to take five steps as opposed to, if you load the box

and power and counter, they’re going to take one step and come back.

“With the athletes you’re playing against now on defense, that one step isn’t going to affect them that much. If they’ve got take five, that’s a long way to come back.”

Both offenses emphasize controlling tempo. Montana is averaging more than 84 plays per game, while MSU’s 75 probably isn’t as many as Cramsey would prefer. His unit is leading the Big Sky at 6.9 yards per play, however, while UM is at 5, tied for the secondlowest in the conference.

Quarterback issues make that number a bit misleading.

“You still have to win games and help the players that are playing for you in order to be successful,” Stitt said. “It’s not even close to what it will look like down the line.”

The offensive revolution is bound to continue at both schools, and as it does, lowscoring ’Cat-Griz affairs may very well become more and more rare.

ONE FOR THE BOOKS ‘CAT-GRIZ ALL-TIME RECORDS Longest rushing touchdown

79 yards 75 yards 74 yards 70 yards 70 yards

Roy Malcolm UM 1949 Emil Adams UM 1904 Mike Doerfler MSU 1979 Charles Fransham MSU 1908 Harry Adams UM 1919

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Longest passing touchdown

91 yards 86 yards 76 yards 75 yards 72 yards

John Edwards to Jimmy Farris • UM 2000 Shaun Shahan to Pet Bergman • MSU 1986 Mike Dunbar to Don Bagley • MSU 1973 Rock Svennengsen to Del Spear • UM 1974 Brock Spencer to Eric Hopkins • MSU 1994

Longest punt return for touchdown

80 yards 75 yards 74 yards 72 yards 60 yards

Jim Tuss MSU 1965 Marc Mariani UM 2008 Gary Popiel MSU 1966 Greg Anderson UM 1974 Milt Popovich UM 1936

Longest kickoff return touchdown

94 yards 90 yards 90 yards 88 yards 80 yards 49 yards

Greg Anderson UM 1974 Russ Dodge MSU 1966 Corey Smith MSU 2003 Sean Hill MSU 1993 Robie Holmes UM 1904 Alex Hunter UM 1986

Longest fumble return for touchdown

RUSHING Yards, career

61 yards 45 yards 23 yards 16 yards 12 yards

609 471 333 328 288

Jim Peterson MSU 1941 Ed Corbin UM 1903 Dwayne Hans UM 1988 Jules Benton MSU 1923 Jacob Yoro UM 1999

Don Hass MSU 1965-67 Lex Hilliard UM 2003-07 Yohance Humphery UM 1999-01 Steve Kracher MSU 1974-75 Milt Popovich UM 1935-37

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Attempts, game

Receptions, career

58 42 39 35 32 32 32

27 26 24 20

Paul Schafer MSU 1968 Don Hass MSU 1967 Ryan Johnson MSU 2002 Evin Groves MSU 2005 Bill Kelly UM 1925 Clyde Carpenter UM 1930 Lex Hilliard UM 2007 Attempts, career

96 Ron Hass MSU 1965-67 89 Lex Hilliard UM 2003-07 79 Yohance Humphery 1999-01 65 Milt Popovich UM 1935-37 63 Ryan Johnson MSU 2001-02 RECEIVING Yards, game

235 Rick Gatewood MSU 2004 205 Joe Douglass UM 1996 200 Joe Douglass UM 1995 194 Scott Gurnsey UM 1994 179 Joe Bignell MSU 1984 Yards, career

Tyrone Holmes Montana defensive end

13 13 13 12

426 Scott Gurnsey UM 1991-94 405 Joe Douglass UM 95-96 359 Brian Salonen UM 80-83 277 Joe Bignell MSU 1981-84 Receptions, game 14 Joe Douglass UM 1996 Joe Bignell MSU 1984 Rick Gatewood MSU 2004 Joe Douglass UM 1995 Ron Bain MSU 1968

395 Dave Dickenson UM 1993 386 Travis Lulay MSU 2004 386 Bert Wilberger UM 1994

Joe Douglass UM 1995-96 Brian Salonen UM 1980-83 Joe Bignell MSU 1981-84 Travis Walker UM 1996-99

Yards, career

999 779 739 721 661

Touchdowns, career

4 3 3 3

Scott Gurnsey UM 1991-94 Joe Douglass UM 1995-96 Jimmy Farris UM 1998 - 2000 Eric Allen UM 2006-07

Brian Ah Yat UM 1996-98 Dave Dickenson UM 1992-95 Rob Compson MSU 1995-98 Travis Lulay MSU 2003-05 Kelly Bradley MSU 1984-86

Attempts, game

56 56 50 50 49

Total yards, game

476 453 419 412 396

Grady Bennett UM 1990 Dave Dickenson UM 1993 Bert Wilberger UM 1994 Brad Lebo UM 1992 Dave Dickenson UM 1995

Brad Lebo UM 1992 Travis Lulay MSU 2004 Brad Lebo UM 1991 Brian Ah Yat UM 1996 Brian Ah Yat UM 1998

Completions, game

36 35 32 29 29

Total yards, career

925 853 826 763 758

Brian Ah Yat UM 1996-98 Dave Dickenson UM 1992-95 Travis Lulay MSU 2002-05 Rob Compson MSU 1995-98 Marty Mornhinweg UM 1980-84

Brian Ah Yat UM 1996 Brad Lebo UM 35 Dave Dickenson UM 1995 Kelly Bradley MSU 1984 Brian Ah Yat UM 1997

Completions, career PASSING Touchdowns, game

4 4 4 4 4

91 63 63 60 58

Marty Mornhinweg UM 1982 Scott Werbelow UM 1987 Dave Dickenson UM 1995 Brian Ah Yat UM 1998 Drew Miller UM 1999

Brian Ah Yat UM 1996-98 Rob Compson MSU 1995-98 Travis Lulay MSU 2002-05 Brad Lebo UM 1991-92 Marty Mornhinweg UM 1980-84

Touchdowns, career

9 8 6

Yards, game

410 Brad Lebo UM 1992 398 Grady Bennett UM 1990

Brian Ah Yat UM 1996-98 Dave Dickenson UM 1992-95 Marty Mornhinweg UM 1980-84

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SCORING Touchdowns, game

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Will Flaherty MSU 1902 Merritt Owsley UM 1912 Emil Adams UM 1904 Bill Kelly UM 1925 Lowell Dailey UM 1931

Touchdowns, game

14 8

UM 1904 UM 1986 and 1987

Rushing yards, game

561 UM 1904 458 UM 1941 425 UM 1920

Touchdowns, career

Passing yards, game

7 6 5 5

Total yards, game

Merritt Owsley UM 1912-13 Bill Kelly UM 1925-26 Will Flaherty MSU 1902 Lex Hilliard UM 2003-07

481 UM 1986 410 UM 1992 398 UM 1990 613 UM 1994

Longest field goal

59 51 49 45 44 44

Jan Stenerud MSU 1965 Dan Carpenter UM 2007 Ted McElhenney UM 1963 Pat Bolton MSU 1973 Bob Turnquist UM 1972 Eby Dobson UM 1984

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Field goals, game

4 3 3

Mark Carter MSU 1983 Pat Bolton MSU 1974 Jeff Hastings MSU 2005

Field goals, career

5 5

Pat Bolton MSU 1973-75 Kirk Duce UM 1989-91

Team points, game

79 59 55 49

UM 1904 UM 1986 UM 1987 UM 1999

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R I VA L RY 2007 — Griz 41, ‘Cats 20 In MSU coach Rob Ash’s first game vs. Grizzlies, UM finishes 11-0 season behind Lex Hilliard’s 181 yards and three touchdowns. Demetrius Crawford rushes for 115 yards and two scores and Jack Rolovich amasses 240 yards through the air.

2008 — Griz 35, ‘Cats 3 UM ignites crowd by taking field with yellow helmets for the first time since 1995 and use five MSU turnovers. Crawford breaks off 84-yard run on second play of game, but ‘Cats are held on downs. Griz take lead for good when Marc Mariani returns punt 75 yards for a score.

2009 — Griz 33, ‘Cats 19 Each team scores a safety and Griz finish 11-0 again. UM leads 9-5 at halftime, then scores quickly to make it 26-5. Joe Schreibeis scores first collegiate touchdown for Bobcats.

2010 — ‘Cats 21, Griz 16 Orenzo Davis runs for 140 yards and the Grizzlies fumble twice inside MSU’s 5-yard line in the second half as the Bobcats win at Washington-Grizzly Stadium for just the second time. Just two points are scored in the second half as wind and snow pound the field.

2011— Griz 36, ‘Cats 10 Both teams entered the game ranked in the national polls — the ‘Cats No. 1 and the Griz 7 — but the Montana running game dominated.

Peter Nguyen rushed for 123 yards and a touchdown and Dan Moore added 116 yards and another score. Averaging more than 36 points a game, the ‘Cats sported the country’s top-rated

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2013 — Griz 28, ‘Cats 14 The Grizzlies secured their fourth straight victory in Bozeman, and more important, handed their rivals a third consecutive loss to end the season and extinguish MSU’s playoff hopes in front of a record crowd of 21,527. Quarterback Jordan Johnson and Montana, which mustered just 19 yards of offense on its first five drives and failed on its first six third-down attempts, reeled off 21 second-half points to pull away. A fourth-quarter fumble from prolific tailbackback Cody Kirk all but sealed a loss for the ’Cats, who amassed just 277 yards of offense.

2014 — Griz 34, ‘Cats 7 Without Dakota Prukop, the Bobcats stood no chance at Washington-Grizzly Stadium. The sophomore quarterback tore his PCL two weeks prior, and junior backup Jake Bleskin threw five interceptions. MSU turned the ball over seven times overall and didn’t score until the fourth quarter.

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