How many teams with 3-7 record have beaten Griz in stadium?

[SACCAT66]

1983 we went 1-10 with a win over um in Bozeman
1985 we went 2-9 with another win over um in Bozeman

In 1984, Cats went 12-2 and a National Championship. The change from 1983 to 1984 was the "biggest turnaround" in collegiate football history, and I'm pretty sure the same was true of 1984 to 1985, in the other direction.

And 1984 was only Dave Arnold's second year, and he won using somebody else's recruits.

Then, when, according to prevailing egriz theory, he got his "own" recruits in his third and fourth years, he went 2-9 and 3-8, and was summarily fired. His dismal record hurt the program so much, the 'Cats were never really contenders again for anything until Mike Kramer finally brought the program back to a BSC championship in 2002, an 18 year dry spell of humiliation and degradation that can result when a program's momentum is broken. :shock:

How did Arnold do that in 1984?

Careful...If you don't have video proof of this, then it didn't happen according to Egriz

 

[UMGriz75]

Careful...If you don't have video proof of this, then it didn't happen according to Egriz

How did Arnold allegedly do that in 1984? And is it true he was a Sasquatch?

 

[ordigger]

1983 we went 1-10 with a win over um in Bozeman
1985 we went 2-9 with another win over um in Bozeman

In 1984, Cats went 12-2 and a National Championship. The change from 1983 to 1984 was the "biggest turnaround" in collegiate football history, and I'm pretty sure the same was true of 1984 to 1985, in the other direction.

And 1984 was only Dave Arnold's second year, and he won using somebody else's recruits.

Then, when, according to prevailing egriz theory, he got his "own" recruits in his third and fourth years, he went 2-9 and 3-8, and was summarily fired. His dismal record hurt the program so much, the 'Cats were never really contenders again for anything until Mike Kramer finally brought the program back to a BSC championship in 2002, an 18 year dry spell of humiliation and degradation that can result when a program's momentum is broken. :shock:

How did Arnold do that in 1984?

I disagree. IMO Earl Solomonson is one of the greatest coaches in Bobcat History. I'd put him right up there with Cliff Hysell. Those years between Kramer and Arnold were awesome for us Griz fans.

 

[ordigger]

1983 we went 1-10 with a win over um in Bozeman
1985 we went 2-9 with another win over um in Bozeman

In 1984, Cats went 12-2 and a National Championship. The change from 1983 to 1984 was the "biggest turnaround" in collegiate football history, and I'm pretty sure the same was true of 1984 to 1985, in the other direction.

And 1984 was only Dave Arnold's second year, and he won using somebody else's recruits.

Then, when, according to prevailing egriz theory, he got his "own" recruits in his third and fourth years, he went 2-9 and 3-8, and was summarily fired. His dismal record hurt the program so much, the 'Cats were never really contenders again for anything until Mike Kramer finally brought the program back to a BSC championship in 2002, an 18 year dry spell of humiliation and degradation that can result when a program's momentum is broken. :shock:

How did Arnold do that in 1984?

He was an assistant briefly for the Bobcats prior to his hiring as head coach, so he may have had some of his "own" recruits for 1984. Plus he had a couple of years at Michigan State.

 

[argh!]

whatever happened to 'throw out the records, it is a rivalry game and they don't matter'?

 

[UMGriz75]

whatever happened to 'throw out the records, it is a rivalry game and they don't matter'?

Griz didn't play like it was a rivalry game.

 

[JDoub]

Another head scratcher -- what other team has won 3 of 4 consecutive games they've played in WaGriz? Are the Bobcats the only team to do that? I don't know of any others.

 

[biga75]

Another head scratcher -- what other team has won 3 of 4 consecutive games they've played in WaGriz? Are the Bobcats the only team to do that? I don't know of any others.

'member 2014?

 

[JDoub]

Another head scratcher -- what other team has won 3 of 4 consecutive games they've played in WaGriz? Are the Bobcats the only team to do that? I don't know of any others.

'member 2014?

yep

like I said, I don't think there's been another team that has won 3 of 4 in Missoula since WaGriz opened
2010 Bobcats win 21-16
2012 Bobcats win 16-7
2014 Griz win 34-7
2016 Bobcats win 24-17

tried some research, I thought maybe EWU, but even though they won 4 in a row against the griz, three of those wins were in Cheney ('12-'14). The best they've done is win two in a row in Missoula since WaGriz opened, in '90 and '92. SUU has won 2 in Missoula WaGriz (out of 6 games) but quite a ways apart '98 and '12. Cal Poly has won 2 in WaGriz, ten years apart -- '05 and '15.

 

[biga75]

Oops jdoub, I misread your first post...read it as 3 or 4 consecutive rather than 3 of 4.
Reading comprehension matters....

 

[mtgriz]

That leads me to ask, has any visiting team ever won 13 of 15 consecutive games they have played in the stadium formerly known as Reno H. Sales and now Bobcat Stadium? Are the Griz the only team that has done that?

 

[JDoub]

That leads me to ask, has any visiting team ever won 13 of 15 consecutive games they have played in Bobcat Stadium? Are the Griz the only team that has done that?

close, but this being a thread about 'in stadium' (WaGriz), so comparatively

the griz are 7-2 in Bobcat Stadium
the griz were 7-6 in Reno H. Sales Stadium
the griz were 2-6 at Gatton Field

Bobcat Stadium 1998-present
Reno H. Sales stadium 1973-1997
Gatton Field 1957-1971

EWU and the griz have the best records in Bobcat Stadium of conference foes, both are 7-2