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Wow, this is going to be a great weekend. We got a Division II team coming in and we're going to beat the holy hell out of them. Isn't this great? Really? We don't have to risk going on the road and playing a challenging opponent. That means we are much less likely to lose. Yep, bring on all the home playoff games we'll be completely unprepared for. What does it matter when it's all about the money?

A majority of Griz fans come into this game a little less than enthused. Hell, it's a Division II school. They have eight kids on scholarship. If you don't already know how I feel about the game, you're an idiot. Here's how the Fort Lewis coach feels about the game:

"We're tired of going against each other," Skyhawks head football coach Ed Rifilato said Thursday, just before the team boarded its buses for Missoula, Mont., and its Saturday game against Division I-AA opponent the University of Montana.

"We're looking forward to playing a game."

"We just have to play our butts off - fight," Rifilato said of the money game. "Next week we get (University of Nebraska at) Kearney, and that's what this game is for. We just need to find a way to compete, that's the biggest thing."

Fort Lewis is 0-5 in the Subdivision the last three years, games that leave little chance of victory but big gains financially in the program's pocket book. Montana defeated Fort Lewis 55-0 two years ago at Washington-Grizzly Stadium in Missoula.

"I'd like to see us be aggressive, work hard and know our assignments," Rifilato said. "They're going to out-athletic us anyway.

"We're getting closer, we just need to play and see what we're made of."

You're made of eight scholarships and Division II mediocrity. If we don't win, the football program should be shut down and all funding should go towards hoops.