Dave Griffiths of the Tenzone Blog has Griz as fourth-best in BSC
Before I launch too far into this, I want to point out that abcmontana.com's The Tenzone Blog has been pretty solid. The writers there have provided readers with excellent coverage; they often have insight and video straight from the Bobcats' and Griz fall camps. So, on that, well done. Now, other issues...
Dave Griffiths has the Montana Grizzlies as the fourth best team in the conference. I'm not trying to be a homer, honestly. In the four years I've been at the University of Montana, I've never been less hopeful going into a football season. But fourth in this sorry group of teams with high school stadiums? I don't think so.
Preemptive strike to the "wow, does a nice stadium equal a good team?" and "eventually the Griz will get what's coming to them" comments: it's nice having you back because you apparently missed the last ten or so years of Big Sky football. The Griz fall backwards out of windows into conference [co-]championships. Worst case scenario: they finish third and eGriz.com members threaten to burn the Adams Center offices to the ground unless Bobby Hauck, the football coaching staff and Jim O'Day resign immediately.
Here's Griffiths' blurb on Montana, a few of my comments in brackets.
When you've had a share of 10 straight conference titles, it's very hard to rank you down at 4th in a preseason poll, but as Varun has said in his blogs [This needs to be clarified. The Tenzone is a blog. What you, Varun and myself are writing are 'posts' or 'entries.' What articles are to newspapers, 'posts' or 'entries' are to blogs. You don't write multiple blogs on a blog. Wouldn't make sense. Glad we could figure that out], 10-12 freshmen should get a lot of playing time. With Coach Bobby Hauck relying that much on the young guys, I can't put UM any higher than fourth right now. Also, when I spoke with Hauck at a spring scrimmage, he said to me clear as day "we plain don't have a good football team right now". That might be coach speak, but hey, I can use that as a reason to put UM this low to start out. I expect junior QB Cole Bergquist [he's a senior] will be very good in his second full year as a starter, and he could even rival Matt Nichols for best QB in the conference [no he couldn't]. However, replacing the production of departed runningback Lex Hilliard will be impossible. On defense, former walk-on now senior S Colt Anderson is the leader of this team, and he'll have to be with several corners coming in with zero college football experience.
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