Griz football fall camp: Week two report
8/16/2007 12:00:00 AM | Football
MISSOULA ?C The University of Montana Grizzly football team completed its first week of 2007 fall drills, and fifth-year head coach Bobby Hauck continues to be happy about his team??s progress to this point as its prepares for the season opener, Sept. 1 at home against Southern Utah.
??We??ve had good work and I like where the team is right now,?? said Hauck. ??We are on track to be prepared for our first game.??
Hauck said that UM??s veteran players are performing well, and some new names have surfaced and could play key roles this season.
??Most of the vets are doing what we expect of them,?? Hauck said. ??I do think that there are a few guys who are making a move up the depth chart. Those are players who we were wondering if we could count on, and they look like they will help us this season.
??Guys like (offensive lineman) Dan Carter (Bellingham, Wash.) and (offensive tackle) Brent Russum (Lewiston, Idaho) have played really well in camp,?? Hauck said. ??Our quarterbacks have played well. (Wide receivers) Mike Ferriter (Helena) and Ryan Bagley (Great Falls) have put in some great days of practice.??
Hauck said he is in no hurry to name a starting quarterback and that he expected several of them to contribute this season.
??We will name a starter (at quarterback) for our first game at some point,?? Hauck said. ??We do have numerous players at that position who will see action. What we want to see is one of those players putting together a string of great practices and having some consistency.??
Hauck said that UM??s three recent cornerback transfers, junior Ciarre Campbell (Colorado State), and sophomores Joe Smith (Mt. San Antonio College) and Mike Vandenberg (New Mexico), are developing their skills.
??We??re only a week in (to fall camp); we??re coaching them hard, and we??ve seen tremendous improvement in just a week or so of practice and they need to keep coming,?? Hauck said. ??They are not game-ready yet, but as with most of our transfers we don??t expect them to be in top form by the first week, we want them to keep coming along as the season progresses.??
The Griz will continue to stagger their two-a-day and one-a-day practice sessions, with final day of doubles slated for Friday, Aug. 24.
Montana??s first of two fall camp scrimmages is this Saturday, Aug. 18 in Washington-Grizzly Stadium, starting around 10:10 a.m. Fall scrims are free to the public.
??We practice pretty hard, so Saturday??s scrimmage will be more about our players who don??t have a lot of game experience getting some reps and some experience playing at the college speed of the game,?? Hauck said.
GRIZ GROWLS:
Montana has now been the preseason favorite selection by Big Sky coaches seven of the last eight seasons. Eastern Washington edged the Griz and was picked first in 2005, receiving 48 points, while UM got 43. The Grizzlies have also been the preseason favorite choice of the media during that time span (2000-06), with EWU getting the nod by a point (303 points to UM??s 302), also in 2005...
Junior center Colin Dow (Billings), a projected starter, is still recovering from an off-season accident, but he has resumed practice on a limited basis...
Junior linebacker Shawn Lebsock (Billings) will redshirt this season due to injury, but he does have a redshirt year left, as he played as a true freshman...sophomore safety Erik Stoll (Sandpoint, Idaho), a transfer from Idaho State, will redshirt in 2007 due to NCAA transfer rules, but he has a redshirt year available too, as he started the last seven games for the Bengals as a ??true?? freshman last season...
There were three Griz players named to the Sports Network preseason All-American team: senior end Kroy Biermann was a first team pick, while senior halfback Lex Hilliard and senior tackle Cody Balogh were second team selections on offense. The Big Sky Conference had 11 players named on the team...
The Griz had nine players named to the All-Big Sky preseason all-league team: Balogh, Hilliard, junior QB Cole Bergquist, senior WR Eric Allen, and senior K Dan Carpenter on offense; and Biermann, senior LB Tyler Joyce, senior FS Torrey Thomas, and junior SS Colt Anderson on defense...
DeAngelo Starr, a 2007 Griz recruit (cornerback) from Corona High School (Calif.), will not play this season because of NCAA rules, but will attend UM this year and begin playing in 2008...
Senior receiver Craig Chambers, listed as one of UM??s 2007 ??Honors Candidates,?? continues to try to rehab an injury and has yet to join the team for fall camp, and may not do so until school begins.
??We??ve had good work and I like where the team is right now,?? said Hauck. ??We are on track to be prepared for our first game.??
Hauck said that UM??s veteran players are performing well, and some new names have surfaced and could play key roles this season.
??Most of the vets are doing what we expect of them,?? Hauck said. ??I do think that there are a few guys who are making a move up the depth chart. Those are players who we were wondering if we could count on, and they look like they will help us this season.
??Guys like (offensive lineman) Dan Carter (Bellingham, Wash.) and (offensive tackle) Brent Russum (Lewiston, Idaho) have played really well in camp,?? Hauck said. ??Our quarterbacks have played well. (Wide receivers) Mike Ferriter (Helena) and Ryan Bagley (Great Falls) have put in some great days of practice.??
Hauck said he is in no hurry to name a starting quarterback and that he expected several of them to contribute this season.
??We will name a starter (at quarterback) for our first game at some point,?? Hauck said. ??We do have numerous players at that position who will see action. What we want to see is one of those players putting together a string of great practices and having some consistency.??
Hauck said that UM??s three recent cornerback transfers, junior Ciarre Campbell (Colorado State), and sophomores Joe Smith (Mt. San Antonio College) and Mike Vandenberg (New Mexico), are developing their skills.
??We??re only a week in (to fall camp); we??re coaching them hard, and we??ve seen tremendous improvement in just a week or so of practice and they need to keep coming,?? Hauck said. ??They are not game-ready yet, but as with most of our transfers we don??t expect them to be in top form by the first week, we want them to keep coming along as the season progresses.??
The Griz will continue to stagger their two-a-day and one-a-day practice sessions, with final day of doubles slated for Friday, Aug. 24.
Montana??s first of two fall camp scrimmages is this Saturday, Aug. 18 in Washington-Grizzly Stadium, starting around 10:10 a.m. Fall scrims are free to the public.
??We practice pretty hard, so Saturday??s scrimmage will be more about our players who don??t have a lot of game experience getting some reps and some experience playing at the college speed of the game,?? Hauck said.
GRIZ GROWLS:
Montana has now been the preseason favorite selection by Big Sky coaches seven of the last eight seasons. Eastern Washington edged the Griz and was picked first in 2005, receiving 48 points, while UM got 43. The Grizzlies have also been the preseason favorite choice of the media during that time span (2000-06), with EWU getting the nod by a point (303 points to UM??s 302), also in 2005...
Junior center Colin Dow (Billings), a projected starter, is still recovering from an off-season accident, but he has resumed practice on a limited basis...
Junior linebacker Shawn Lebsock (Billings) will redshirt this season due to injury, but he does have a redshirt year left, as he played as a true freshman...sophomore safety Erik Stoll (Sandpoint, Idaho), a transfer from Idaho State, will redshirt in 2007 due to NCAA transfer rules, but he has a redshirt year available too, as he started the last seven games for the Bengals as a ??true?? freshman last season...
There were three Griz players named to the Sports Network preseason All-American team: senior end Kroy Biermann was a first team pick, while senior halfback Lex Hilliard and senior tackle Cody Balogh were second team selections on offense. The Big Sky Conference had 11 players named on the team...
The Griz had nine players named to the All-Big Sky preseason all-league team: Balogh, Hilliard, junior QB Cole Bergquist, senior WR Eric Allen, and senior K Dan Carpenter on offense; and Biermann, senior LB Tyler Joyce, senior FS Torrey Thomas, and junior SS Colt Anderson on defense...
DeAngelo Starr, a 2007 Griz recruit (cornerback) from Corona High School (Calif.), will not play this season because of NCAA rules, but will attend UM this year and begin playing in 2008...
Senior receiver Craig Chambers, listed as one of UM??s 2007 ??Honors Candidates,?? continues to try to rehab an injury and has yet to join the team for fall camp, and may not do so until school begins.
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