No one took 2012 harder than Gregorak. In order to turn things around, he believes the Griz coaching staff must do as much improving as the players.
“Just those games we had become so accustomed to winning we dropped,” he said. “I think it was a culmination of a lot of outside distractions and coaching changes and new coordinators – a lot of excuses to lose those games and nobody wants to hear excuses, especially Griz Nation. Hopefully we learned from our mistakes.”
A punch word in summer workouts has been “finish.” As in finish strong – something the 2012 Griz failed to do in tight games against Eastern Washington, Northern Arizona, North Dakota and Montana State.
“That goes for the coaches, too,” Gregorak offered. “With a year under our belt and some new ideas with some of the new (assistant) coaches that have come in, I expect us to go be finishers.
“We’re fired up, I can tell you that. We can’t wait to get rolling on that fourth or fifth day of August and obviously that last Saturday of August under the lights will be about as electric as the last time they came to our place.”
Montana’s opponent on Aug. 31 is Appalachian State. Their last meeting in Zootown was an epic struggle in the snow that launched UM into the 2009 FCS title tilt.
Since then Montana has missed the playoffs twice in three years. In a “production-based business,” as Gregorak calls it, that’s not good enough.
Judging by what’s happening in July, you can expect an increase in production.
FULL ARTICLE: http://missoulian.com/sports/college/montana/football/speltz-boys-of-summer-bent-on-turning-things-around/article_062b62d6-ec47-11e2-ae91-001a4bcf887a.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Classy comments by Gregorak. A big year is in store!!!
“Just those games we had become so accustomed to winning we dropped,” he said. “I think it was a culmination of a lot of outside distractions and coaching changes and new coordinators – a lot of excuses to lose those games and nobody wants to hear excuses, especially Griz Nation. Hopefully we learned from our mistakes.”
A punch word in summer workouts has been “finish.” As in finish strong – something the 2012 Griz failed to do in tight games against Eastern Washington, Northern Arizona, North Dakota and Montana State.
“That goes for the coaches, too,” Gregorak offered. “With a year under our belt and some new ideas with some of the new (assistant) coaches that have come in, I expect us to go be finishers.
“We’re fired up, I can tell you that. We can’t wait to get rolling on that fourth or fifth day of August and obviously that last Saturday of August under the lights will be about as electric as the last time they came to our place.”
Montana’s opponent on Aug. 31 is Appalachian State. Their last meeting in Zootown was an epic struggle in the snow that launched UM into the 2009 FCS title tilt.
Since then Montana has missed the playoffs twice in three years. In a “production-based business,” as Gregorak calls it, that’s not good enough.
Judging by what’s happening in July, you can expect an increase in production.
FULL ARTICLE: http://missoulian.com/sports/college/montana/football/speltz-boys-of-summer-bent-on-turning-things-around/article_062b62d6-ec47-11e2-ae91-001a4bcf887a.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Classy comments by Gregorak. A big year is in store!!!
