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22013013 BBobcatobcat HistoryHistory BookBook MSU coaching legends Sonny Holland (above left) and Jim Sweeney. Holland (also top right) was passed by current MSU coach Rob Ash (bottom right) as the school’s all-time winningest coach last fall. Current Bobcat quarterback DeNarius McGhee (bottom left) also passed Paul Dennehy last season as the team’s all-time wins leader as a quarterback. 2013 MONTANA STATE FOOTBALL 1 2012 Headlines Paths of Bobcat Schreibeis Schocks Coaching Legends the (FCS) World Bobcats Win Third Straight Intersect in 2012 Big Sky Crown From unassuming walk-on to • Montana State clinches third straight championship with second straight win in The careers of Rob Ash, Sonny unheralded starter to undisputed Washington-Grizzly Stadium Holland and Jim Sweeney best defensive player in the • MSU’s only regular season loss came when FCS, 2012 was quite a season Eastern Washington turned a pair of late converged on one magical Bobcat mistakes into a big road win Saturday in Bobcat Stadium for Montana State defensive end • The Cats won a home playoff game for the Caleb Schreibeis second straight year for the fi rst time It was a ride Rob Ash will never • For only the second time in MSU history, forget - into the night, into the history He shook Jerry Rice’s hand. He Montana State has won three consecutive books, on the shoulders of some of the chatted with Buck Buchanan’s widow, Big Sky championships (MSU also won the accepted praise from people he’d never league from 1966-68) greatest and most beloved players in dreamed of meeting, and accepted a • MSU has won or shared the Big Sky title 15 Bobcat football history. times in school history, including six times in Montana State’s sixth-year head trophy he had no idea he could win. the past 11 seasons coach topped North Dakota on October And when it was all over Caleb • The Bobcats spent the entire season ranked 27, 2012, for the program’s 48th win Schreibeis could still barely believe his in the nation’s top 10 under Ash’s direction. That pushed journey. the school’s sixth-year head coach into “It’s surreal,” the thoughtful and Schreibeis Wins Buchanan, fi rst place on MSU’s all-time wins list, cerebral mechanical engineering Bobcats Land Unprecedented one past the man Ash calls the greatest technology major said. “It’s been an Post-Season Honors Bobcat of all, Sonny Holland. amazing experience.” The amazing experience was • Caleb Schreibeis’ dominant season earned Holland’s connections to the MSU its fi rst Buck Buchanan Award program are well-known. The man triggered by an amazing senior season. • DeNarius McGhee won his second Big Sky who won 47 games as head coach Schreibeis forced an FCS-leading Offensive MVP award, while Jody Owens from 1971-77, and who was a three- eight fumbles, 15 tackles-for-loss, snagged the league’s Defensive MVP time All-America for the Bobcats, has which included 12.5 sacks, and seven • Center Shaun Sampson joined Schreibeis, traveled with the Bobcats throughout quarterback hurries. Schreibeis earned McGhee and Owens as Bobcat All-Americas Ash’s tenure. In addition to working as First Team All-Big Sky honors, and was MSU’s head coach and as an all-time a consensus All-America. MSU Legend Sweeney great player, Holland served as a Bobcat What made Schreibeis’ story more Passes Away in Fresno assistant during the 1960s. amazing is that he followed his brother • Won three Big Sky Championships during The man who brought Holland into Joe to MSU as a walk-on, and according his fi ve seasons at Montana State the coaching fold at MSU a half-century to Bobcat coach Rob Ash, “Worked as • Coached at Washington State and in the ago, of course, was the legendary Jim hard as he could every single day to NFL, but gained national acclaim with an Sweeney. With Holland and the rest of his prove he was worth a scholarship.” outstanding career at Fresno State He was a productive player almost • His 31 wins remains tied for sixth in staff, the Butte native and former prep immediately, including one memorable Bobcat history, and his winning percentage coaching dynamo extended and elevated stands as the school’s fourth-best mark Montana State’s run of dominance when moment on special teams from his he took over in 1963. Sweeney and the freshman year. His brother Joe forced Ash Claims Top Spot on MSU Bobcats won league titles in 1964 and a fumble on a kickoff that Schreibeis 1966-68. Three of those titles belong to recovered. “That was an amazing Wins List coincidence,” Caleb remembers, “but it • Montana State’s win over North Dakota Sweeney, and he was the architect of the was very special.” gave Rob Ash his 48th win as the school’s last series of Bobcat teams to win three head coach, passing Sonny Holland for fi rst straight Big Sky titles. place among all Bobcat head coaches As Ash and Holland shared the McGhee Makes History • Ash presently has 50 wins, three more than moment in the twilight following that • By grinding out a win at Sacramento State, Sonny Holland, who travels with the Bobcats game, one couldn’t help but trace the on November 3, DeNarius McGhee became • Rob Ash is the career wins leader at three great lineage of Bobcat coaches back to MSU’s winningest starting quarterback. He different schools, also topping the career Sweeney, who would pass away months now has 30 career victories. victories list at Juniata and Drake • McGhee became one of only 10 players to later in his adopted hometown of Fresno. win multiple Big Sky Offensive MVP awards. • McGhee enters his senior season with 9,116 passing yards and 71 TD passes in his career 2013 MONTANA STATE FOOTBALL 2 22013013 BBobcatobcat HHonorsonors Individual National Honors Buck Buchanan Award: DE Caleb Schreibeis 2012 Team Awards Sonny Holland Off. MVP ..................................... QB DeNarius McGhee CFPA FCS Defensive Performer of Year: Bill Kollar Def. MVP ........................................DE Caleb Schreibeis DE Caleb Schreibeis Jan Stenerud ST MVP ............................................. P/K Rory Perez AFCA Region 5 Co-Coach of Year: Rob Ash Don Hass Inspirational .......................................RB Tray Robinson Coll. Sports Journ. Frosh LS of Year: Jake Olson Coaches Choice Awards All-America Honors Dennis Erickson Offensive .................................C Shaun Sampson First Team: LB Jody Owens (AFCA, AP, Sports Network, Phil Joe Tiller Defensive ................................................LB Jody Owens Steele), DE Caleb Schreibeis (Sports Network, AP, Walter Camp, Ken Amato Kick Teams ...............................................Chase Young Phil Steele), QB DeNarius McGhee (AFCA; 2nd-Phil Steele). Top Offensive Scout .................................................... Austin Barth Fourth Team: C Shaun Sampson (Phil Steele) Top Defensive Scout ..............................................Luke Halliburton Top Kick Teams Scout ..................................... Vince DiGiallanardo Academic Honors CoSIDA Academic All-America: WR Tanner Bleskin (2nd Team) FCS ADA Academic All-Stars: WR Tanner Bleskin, QB DeNarius Winner’s Circle McGhee Offense: WR Tanner Bleskin, OG Quinn Catalano, WR Jon Ellis, RB Cody Kirk, QB DeNarius McGhee, RB Tray Robinson, OT Steven Foster, C Shaun Sampson Big Sky Honors Defense: James Andrews, Steven Bethley, Brad Daly, Deonte Offensive MVP ....................................... DeNarius McGhee, QB Flowers, Joel Fuller, Aleksei Grosulak, Darius Jones, Na’a Defensive MVP ..................................................Jody Owens, LB Moeakiola, Cole Moore, Jody Owens, Caleb Schreibeis 1st Team: S Joel Fuller, sr; QB DeNarius McGhee, jr; DT Zach Minter, sr; LB Special Teams: Michael Foster, Cole Moore, Tray Robinson, Jody Owens, sr; C Shaun Sampson, sr; DE Caleb Schreibeis, sr. Chase Young 2nd Team: WR Tanner Bleskin, jr; OT Steven Foster, sr; RB Cody Kirk, jr; DE (Players who graded out at 85% or better for season) Brad Daly, jr; CB Darius Jones, sr. Honorable Mention: OG Quinn Catalano, so; FB Tray Robinson, sr; PK Rory Perez, jr; RS Shawn Johnson, so; LB Na’a Moeakiola, jr; S Steven Bethley, sr; ST Michael Foster, so. 2013 Spring Awards Tom Parac Most Improved Offensive Player .....................Austin Barth Jon Montoya Most Improved Defensive Player ................ Sean Gords Big Sky Players of the Week Chuck Karnop Award for Toughness ........................... Tiai Salanoa S17-Tanner Bleskin, Offense Cliff Hysell Award for Courage ....................................Rob Marshall O1-Jody Owens, Defense Hayden Ferguson Award for Academics Cole Moore, Tanner Bleskin N5-Na’a Moeakiola, Defense D’Agostino Family Strength Awards N12-Caleb Schreibeis, Defense Linemen: Quinn Catalano, Bobby Daly, Preston Gale N19-Caleb Schreibeis, Defense Stand-up Players: DeNarius McGhee, Na’a Moeakiola, Cole Moore, Alex Singleton National FCS Freshman of the Week Skill Players: Steven Bethley, Shawn Johnson O15-John Weidenaar, OT 2013 Team Captains WR Tanner Bleskin (Great Falls), DE Brad Daly (Helena), RB FCS ADA All-Scholar Team Cody Kirk (Frenchtown), LB Na’a Moeakiola (Euless, Texas) Tanner Bleskin, Caleb Schreibeis AFCA Region 5 Co-Coach of the Year Rob Ash Strength Coach of the Year Alex Willcox Big Sky All-Academic Tanner Bleskin, Matthew Devereux, Cole Moore, Chase Young, Rick Haluszka, AJ Silva, Caleb Schreibeis, Cody Kirk, Kruiz Siew- ing, DeNarius McGhee, Aleksei Grosulak, Lee Perkins Preseason All-America LB Jody Owens, DT Zach Minter, QB DeNarius McGhee 2013 MONTANA STATE FOOTBALL 3 22012012 SStatisticstatistics RECORD:.................... OVERALL HOME AWAY ALL GAMES..................... 11-2 6-2 5-0 CONFERENCE..................... 7-1 3-1 4-0 Aug 30 Chadron State W 33-6 20,767 RECEIVING G No. Yds Avg TD Long Avg/G Sep 8 at Drake W 34-24 3,558 Tanner Bleskin 12 66 928 14.1 4 69 77.3 Sep 15 Stephen F. Austin W 43-35 17,147 Jon Ellis 13 53 555 10.5 6 49 42.7 Sep 22 *Northern Colorado W 41-16 18,637 Tray Robinson 13 34 256 7.5 4 26 19.7 Sep 29 *at Southern Utah W 24-17 8,417 B.