I think Coach Stitt is a good man and a good recruiter, at least when it comes to WR's--he left Coach Hauck both Sammy Akem and future NFL WR Samori Toure. But while Coach Stitt tried to recruit O lineman, he wasn't so successful there. A lot of his O linemen he recruited from Colorado, for example, were three-star studs on paper but soft three-star duds on the field. ( So why didn't Coach Hauck and O line Coach Germer go to the portal and just load up on 5-7 FBS and FCS transfer O linemen starting on Dec. 9, 2017 ? The transfer portal didn't launch until Oct. 15, 2018 with kids allowed to enter the portal in Dec. of 2018, too late to help Coach Hauck's first 2.0 team in '18.)
During 2018 Brawl, the Shi##ty Kitties so-called " Miracle in Missoula," we had a Sirmon kid from Washington recruited as a LB, that was asked by Coach Hauck shortly after he returned to Missoula to bulk up to play the O line so putting the team first, he did. And if my memory hasn't completely failed me, he went into that game playing our starting LG @ 272 pounds--kudos to him, huge to me @ 145 pounds but pretty puny for a Div. 1 offensive lineman, especially when the SK DT's were like 290 +, so no wonder our O line got blown up on that play on the goal line !!!
Picture this: early September of 2026 or '27, Coach Stitt makes his return to WA-GRIZ as his Div. II Colorado School of Mines plays Coach Hauck and his Montana Grizzlies in a nonconference game. This is not a slam dunk --may not ever happen, but this game pitting former GRIZ HC Bob Stitt vs. Coach Bobby Hauck, the man that succeeded him, could happen and while Mines as a Div. II school would be a big underdog, the game--if it ever happens--would definitely have some buzz surrounding it !!!