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22015015 BBobcatobcat HistoryHistory BookBook Find a good college football offense and you’ll usually fi nd that the guys that never handle the football are really good at their jobs. During the past few seasons, since the Bobcat offense began shattering records on a regular basis, this team’s offensive line has anchored the entire process. JP Flynn, (#75 near right) and John Weidenaar (#55 on the far right) enter this season as honors candidates, Weidenaar as a Preseason All- Big Sky selection and Flynn landing on preseason All- America squads. The two are part of an offensive line that is impressive in every way - for instance, among the starters are three engineering majors. 2015 MONTANA STATE FOOTBALL 1 22014014 BBobcatobcat HHeadlineseadlines Bobcats Post 13th Straight Junior Defensive Lineman Winning Season, Fourth Playoff Odin Coe Joins Different Team Appearance in Five Years It was a simple switch. Odin Coe swapped • Montana State extended school records by Montana State football’s navy blue for fi nishing with a winning record for the 13th Navy blue. But in doing so, the recent MSU straight season, and a winning mark in Big graduate who was named for the Norwegian Sky for the 14th straight campaign. The Cats god of war passed on his senior season of narrowly missed their fourth Big Sky title college football for a different calling. since 2010, although the team did qualify for Coe informed MSU coaches that he would the FCS Playoffs for the fourth time in the forego his senior season in order to apply past fi ve campaigns. for, and eventually join, the U.S. Navy Seals, • Two Bobcat seniors gained All-America his long-time dream. While his teammates honors at the end of the 2014 season - Deonte trained for the 2015 season, the unfailingly Flowers became the fi rst Bobcat cornerback positive, relentlessly hard-working Camas, since Joey Thomas in 2001 to become an All- WA product began an even more rigorous America, while Alex Singleton became the routing to prepare him for the journey ahead. fourth MSU linebacker in the last 11 years to join the school’s list of All-Americas. Coe’s football fi nale was impressive. As a • Offensive guard JP Flynn became the fi rst sophomore and junior he logged 15.5 tackles- Offensive Explosion Highlights Bobcat sophomore honored as a First Team for-loss and eight sacks. He had 2.5 sacks against Weber State and six tackles in his last 2014 Campaign All-Big Sky player since Cody Kirk in 2011. • Dakota Prukop’s 2014 season was one game against South Dakota State. for the ages. Montana State’s sophomore quarterback threw for 2,559 yards and rushed for 966 more. His 3,525 yards of total offense stands third on the Bobcat single-season list. • A quiet demeanor and underlying humility always belied Shawn Johnson’s imminent explosion on the football fi eld. Although Bakersfi eld, CA, product who played high school ball for former MSU quarterback Bryan Nixon had to wait three seasons for his shot as the primary Bobcat running back, Johnson was also the nation’s fi nest return man when healthy and a threat to be accounted for whenever he was on the fi eld. He rushed for 606 yards in only nine games as a senior, and fi nished his career with a school-record 4,453 career all-purpose yards. • Sophomore running back Chad Newell always said he thrives on football in bad weather and cold temperatures. He put words into action in Montana State’s home playoff game against South Dakota State. Newell tied a school-record by rushing for fi ve touchdowns on the coldest day in Bobcat Stadium history, when the temperature was one degree at kickoff. Ash Continues to Pile Up Wins • Rob Ash fi nished 2014 with 241 career wins, 32nd all-time and sixth among active college football coaches. • Rob Ash’s career win percentage at MSU is second-best in school history. • Rob Ash’s 65 wins is the most in Montana State history and eighth-most in Big Sky Conference history. • Rob Ash is the career wins leader at Montana State, Drake, and Juniata. 2015 MONTANA STATE FOOTBALL 2 22014014 BBobcatobcat HHonorsonors All-America Honors ThirdTeam: CB Deonte Flowers (3rd Team-College Sports Mad- 2014 Team Awards Sonny Holland Off. MVP ...................................... Dakota Prukop ness, Fab Fifty-College Sporting News), LB Alex Singleton (3rd Bill Kollar Def. MVP ...............................................Alex Singleton Team-College Sports Madness) Jan Stenerud ST MVP ..............................................Chad Newell Don Hass Inspirational................................................. Koni Dole Academic Honors FCS ADA Academic All-Stars: LB Cole Moore Coaches Choice Awards Dennis Erickson Offensive ...................................Offensive Line Joe Tiller Defensive .............................................Deonte Flowers 2014 Big Sky Honors Ken Amato Kick Teams ........................................Gunnar Brekke First Team: OG JP Flynn, TE Tiai Salanoa, LB Alex Singleton, Top Offensive Scout .......................................Johnny D’Agostino CB Deonte Flowers, ST Chad Newell. Second Team: OG Quinn Top Defensive Scout ............................................... Grant Collins Catalano, RS Shawn Johnson, DT Taylor Sheridan. Third Team: Top Kick Teams Scout ............................................... Will Krolick OT John Weidenaar, C Joel Horn, QB Dakota Prukop, RB Shawn Johnson, LB Cole Moore Hon. Mention: WR Mitch Griebel, RB Gunnar Brekke, FB Chad Special Teams Core Newell, K Luke Daly, RS Gunnar Brekke, DE Odin Coe, LB Na’a Bryce Alley-1, Mac Bignell-2, Nate Bignell-3, Gunnar Brekke-9, Moeakiola, P Trevor Bolton; ST Michael Foster. Cody Cleveland-9, Deonte Flowers-2, Michael Foster-3, Khari Garcia-4, Mitch Griebel-4, Devin Jeffries-2, Shawn Johnson-3, National Players of the Week Manny Kalfell-2, Will Krolick-2, Rob Marshall-1, Joey Michael-1, SPORTS NETWORK PLAYER OF THE WEEK Cole Moore-8, Chad Newell-10, Tiai Salanoa-1, Trace Timmer-8, RB Shawn Johnson vs. EWU; QB Dakota Prukop vs. SAC Rhett Young-9 BEYOND SPORTS NETWORK FCS ATHLETES OF THE WEEK (10 games graded) #2 Shawn Johnson and #3 Dakota Prukop vs. EWU; #2 Dakota Prukop vs. SAC CFPA PLAYER OF THE WEEK 2015 Spring Awards P Trevor Bolton vs. UCA, RB/RS Shawn Johnson vs. EWU, QB Dakota Tom Parac Most Improved Offensive Player....Austin Barth Prukop vs. SAC, RB/RS Gunnar Brekke vs. SAC, Performer of the Week Jon Montoya Most Improved Defensive Player Mac Bignell Dakota Prukop vs. UC Davis Chuck Karnop Award for Toughness . K. Godecke/W. Christensen Cliff Hysell Award for Courage .....................Desman Carter COLLEGE SPORTING NEWS NATIONAL ALL-STAR Hayden Ferguson Award for Academics .........Alex Eekhoff QB Dakota Prukop vs. UC Davis D’Agostino Family Strength Awards Linemen: JP Flynn Big Sky Players of the Week Stand-up Players: Beau Sandland S13-Dakota Prukop, Offense Skill Players: Bryce Alley S20-Shawn Johnson, Special Teams S27-Luke Daly, Special Teams 2015 Team Captains O3-Dakota Prukop, Off.; Gunnar Brekke, ST WR Mitch Griebel (Littleton, CO), RB Chad Newell (Billings), QB O10-Dakota Prukop, Offense Dakota Prukop (Austin, TX), DT Taylor Sheridan (Aurora, CO) O27-Dakota Prukop, Offense N8-Alex Singleton, Defense 2015 MONTANA STATE FOOTBALL 3 22014014 SStatisticstatistics RECORD:.................... OVERALL HOME AWAY ALL GAMES...................... 8-5 6-2 2-3 CONFERENCE..................... 6-2 4-0 2-2 Aug 30 at Arkansas State L 10-37 26143 SCORE BY QUARTERS 1st 2nd 3rd 4th OT Total Sep 06 BLACK HILLS STATE W 57-10 19187 Montana State 131 142 121 102 496 Sep 13 CENTRAL ARKANSAS W 43-33 17777 Opponents 110 88 87 148 433 Sep 20 EASTERN WASHINGTON L 51-52 19377 Sep 27 *NORTH DAKOTA W 29-18 19477 ALL PURPOSE G Rush Rec PR KOR IR Tot Avg/G Oct 04 *at Sacramento State W 59-56 6473 Shawn Johnson 9 606 285 107 480 0 1478 164.2 Oct 11 *at UC Davis W 77-37 7152 Gunnar Brekke 13 424 204 4 732 0 1364 104.9 Oct 18 *WEBER STATE W 23-13 19677 TOTAL OFFENSE G Plays Rush Pass Total Avg/G Nov 01 *at Cal Poly L 27-35 8,909 Dakota Prukop 11 433 966 2559 3525 320.5 Nov 08 *PORTLAND STATE W 29-22 16,627 Jake Bleskin 8 89 75 572 647 80.9 Nov 15 *IDAHO STATE W 44-39 16,577 Nov 22 *at Montana L 7-34 26,352 RECEIVING G No. Yds Avg TD Long Avg/G Nov 29 $SOUTH DAKOTA STATE L 40-47 7,477 Mitch Griebel 13 45 445 9.9 0 25 34.2 * conference game $ FCS Playoffs Tiai Salanoa 13 32 327 10.2 0 47 25.2 Mitchell Herbert 11 28 339 12.1 4 38 30.8 TEAM STATISTICS .....................................MSU OPP Gunnar Brekke 13 21 204 9.7 2 59 15.7 SCORING.................... 496/38.2 433/33.3 Shawn Johnson 9 18 285 15.8 4 65 31.7 FIRST DOWNS.......... 304/160-125-19 295/106-164-25 Tanner Roderick 12 15 275 18.3 3 39 22.9 RUSHING YARDAGE............ 614-3177 463-2508 Chad Newell 13 15 169 11.3 0 40 13.0 Yards gained rushing......... 3522 2775 Jayshawn Gates 11 13 382 29.4 3 67 34.7 Yards lost rushing............ 345 267 Justin Paige 10 12 379 31.6 3 75 37.9 Average Per Rush/Game... 5.2/244.4 5.4/192.9 Brian Flotkoetter 4 12 166 13.8 1 46 41.5 TDs Rushing.................... 43 25 Lee Perkins 12 6 72 12.0 1 20 6.0 PASSING YARDAGE................ 3175 3820 Will Krolick 10 4 38 9.5 0 18 3.8 Comp-Att-Int........... 228-347-13 285-479-8 Manny Kalfell 3 2 59 29.5 0 32 19.7 Average Per Pass/Catch..