How to attack the Griz 3-3-5?

[GoldstoneCat]

This probably won't help anyone and if it does it'll probably only be temporary , but I bet the fans are more nervous about the game than the players. As a fan there's nothing you can do about all the pent-up energy. You have no control over anything. The players know they have some control and they go to practice, which is probably a great escape from just thinking about it.

"This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard" in 3.....2.....1.....

Not stupid. This is the longest. Week. Ever. Ever. Still not Saturday.

[ilovethecats]

This probably won't help anyone and if it does it'll probably only be temporary , but I bet the fans are more nervous about the game than the players. As a fan there's nothing you can do about all the pent-up energy. You have no control over anything. The players know they have some control and they go to practice, which is probably a great escape from just thinking about it.

"This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard" in 3.....2.....1.....

I think this is no doubt the case. They're athletes so they'll obviously have the nervous energy. But they can actually control the outcome. All of us just have to sit back and see what happens.

Kind of the same as how the fans treat the rivalry versus the players. Fans are awful to one another. Players hang out with each other in the summer.

Hell, Taco met his future wife who is a griz by texting Gillman!

[D-Wreck]

This probably won't help anyone and if it does it'll probably only be temporary , but I bet the fans are more nervous about the game than the players. As a fan there's nothing you can do about all the pent-up energy. You have no control over anything. The players know they have some control and they go to practice, which is probably a great escape from just thinking about it.

"This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard" in 3.....2.....1.....

Not stupid. This is the longest. Week. Ever. Ever. Still not Saturday.

I hate this week, love the game. At least I'm old enough to know it's because I'm neurotic!

[BobcatBuiltTexan]

Again your emitting are getting in the way of you reading. I never said it isn't big to YOU. I never said it isn't important. What I have REPEATEDLY said is to act like there is no other rivalry like this is small minded. It can be big to you, that's fine. It can be the biggest to you, that's fine... but for you to act like there is no other rivalry and kids not from mt just don't get it is very very small minded. I get it, it's a big damn deal.... it's the biggest of damn deals to you and many others in the state of mt...I literally get it...I actually understand. You say I don't get this rivalry, I say you didn't grow up Texas where football is an ACTUAL religion. You don't get how dusky we take HIGH SCHOOL football... people commit felonies beyond high school diurnal in the name of rivalries down here....I totally get it. I think you are believing in trying to down play it, I'm not... I'm just saying you're acting like there's nothing like it... I'm just just saying yes there is.

Ya I think we're going around in circles here. I think it's obvious that I know there are other rivalries in the country. I mean we have a whole "rivalry week".

My point is we are talking about OUR rivalry. I want OUR players to understand OUR rivalry. It does no one any good if we have a kid coming in here and he knows there is a rivalry between Florida and Florida State. Who cares? Now if they played for Florida I'd expect them to think that Florida State is the biggest rivalry in the country. Why would that kid care that kids in Alabama think their rivalry with Auburn is the biggest? How would that matter in the slightest?

Listen to former players. Hell just yesterday our former player Mike Rider said he had no idea the scope of this game until he experienced it first hand. We have had COUNTLESS former players on record saying they didn't understand the big deal of the game until they played in it. And then it was like nothing they have ever experienced. Are they lying because they're not playing for Ohio State against Michigan?

It has been common practice for as long as I have followed this program to make sure new players understand the meaning of this game. ALL players. The difference between Montana kids and not is simply Montana kids grew up here and know the importance of this game. But even they don't fully understand it until they play in it. This isn't me saying this. This is literally former players.

So again, we are talking about THIS game. THESE two teams. The Cats and the griz. For THESE two teams, THIS is the biggest rivalry in the country and the only one they care about. And I don't think these players are small minded at all. Hell, I'd even venture to guess that when all is said and done, if we're lucky to hang on to the Texas kids the whole time and they get to play in 3-4 of these games, even THEY will say this is the biggest rivalry in the country to them. Because they would have fought in it. And like all of us Bobcats, because one you're here you're a Bobcat, they won't care if other people around the country that know rivalries don't consider Cat griz to be the biggest one.

I don't think we disagree just different perspectives. Again my point is that many players have in fact been in big time rivalries and understand how wild it gets. I bet my butt to an oatmeal cookie that those players that day they didn't get it until they played in it didn't grow up playing in big rivalries with large fans bases in big stadiums. So yes I agree a lot of players don't get it and yes it does need to be made clear this isn't just another game. It's bragging rights, it's seeding, it's everything all wrapped up into one. I agree totally our players should definitely feel this is the biggest rivalry in America. I've been out with guys from that played at ut, his that played at fla and guys that played at bama... each of them will die on the hill that theirs is the biggest in America. They should feel that way, that's what helps make you play hard. So I'll end this back and forth by saying we agree on a lot and disagree on others and that's OK. Go cats go

[BobcatBuiltTexan]

This probably won't help anyone and if it does it'll probably only be temporary , but I bet the fans are more nervous about the game than the players. As a fan there's nothing you can do about all the pent-up energy. You have no control over anything. The players know they have some control and they go to practice, which is probably a great escape from just thinking about it.

"This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard" in 3.....2.....1.....

I think this is no doubt the case. They're athletes so they'll obviously have the nervous energy. But they can actually control the outcome. All of us just have to sit back and see what happens.

Kind of the same as how the fans treat the rivalry versus the players. Fans are awful to one another. Players hang out with each other in the summer.

Hell, Taco met his future wife who is a griz by texting Gillman!

That's WILD lololol but I agree the players look at it differently. They affect the game directly so their approach has to be different. Again that's wild about taco!!!

[nanacat]

This is the article about Taco and his fiancee
https://nbcmontana.com/sports/local-spo ... r-marriage