Bobcat Football on The Bozeman Daily Bee

Bobcats offensive line holds, mostly, in first full-pad scrimmage

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:38:39 +0000

The Montana State Bobcats strapped on full pads for the first time this fall Saturday at Bobcat Stadium, and if you ask Randy Pflug — and nobody did, but he’ll tell you anyway — the whole season lives or dies right there in the trench.

Head coach Brent Vigen watched from the sideline with a clipboard and the expression of a man who has seen seventeen Augembers and knows the seventeenth feels exactly like the first. “We’re evaluating communication up front,” Vigen said. “The schemes don’t matter if the five don’t move as one.”

Bobcats open fall camp under watchful eye of new indoor facility's space heaters

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:01:38 +0000

MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY — The Bobcats took the field Monday for the first day of fall camp, which is what we call it when 115 large men gather in August to hit each other while Coach Brent Vigen watches from a golf cart.

The big story this year is the quarterbacks. Redshirt freshman Jake Metcalf of Belgrade is competing with Tyrell Washington, a transfer from Houston who has never seen snow but owns three heated vests. Metcalf’s dad owns Metcalf Feed & Seed. Washington’s dad owns a logistics company. Both threw nice balls Tuesday. Both also threw two interceptions. Vigen said the position will be decided by “who protects the football and runs the offense,” which is coach speak for “please stop throwing it to the other team.”

Bobcats open fall camp with familiar question: will the line hold

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:13:49 +0000

BOZEMAN — The Montana State Bobcats took the field at Bobcat Stadium Thursday morning for the first practice of fall camp, and if you listened closely between the whistle blasts and the clatter of helmets, you could hear the same question that has echoed through this valley since the Eisenhower administration.

Will the line hold.

“Everything comes down to whether the line holds,” said Randy Pflug, who has covered Bobcat football, prep wrestling, and the Tuesday night co-ed softball league at Kirk Park with identical gravity for twenty-three years. “Same as it ever was. Same as the softball league. If the line holds, you got a chance. If it don’t, you’re just watching the other team celebrate.”