And so it begins: Griz football practice gets rolling
This football season may very well end with the Griz winning their third FCS National Championship. It could also end with the Griz missing the playoffs for the first time in more than a decade -- but I wouldn't count on it.
The campaign for a team that many believe is the best Griz squad in years officially got underway yesterday with the first full-team practice.
The practice marks the first time the transfers in the secondary have gotten reps with the team. The Missoulian has some background on the pack of FBS transfers in their article on yesterday's practice.
[Ciarre Campbell], 6-foot-2 and 195 pounds, is a Colorado State transfer whose brother, Severin, is a redshirt freshman linebacker for the Griz. Ciarre Campbell redshirted at CSU in 2005 and lettered last season, and was athletic enough to take second in the Mountain West Conference indoor track championships in the long jump, marking 25 feet.MontanaGrizzlies.com has a chunk of media from fall camp, including a several great images and some interesting interviews.
[Joseph Smith], out of Mount San Antonio College, is 5-10 and 185. He started in 2006 for the Mounties, who were the Mission Conference champs and won the Beach Bowl title.
[Mike Vandenberg] played mostly receiver at New Mexico last year, after spending the 2005 season as a redshirt. He had 11 interceptions and 85 tackles as a senior at Campolino High School in Moraga, Calif.; he also had 35 catches and nine touchdowns as a receiver.
Campbell is from South High School in Denver, and Smith prepped at Damien High in LaVerne, Calif.
