Thank You Coach Green!!!!

Well hello everyone, sorry for the break in between my last blog, school just has been really kicking my behind lately and I’ve been trying to keep up with everything. So if you all haven’t heard, Coach Green retired, he decided to call her quits after twenty four years of head coaching duties here at Montana Tech. I would just like to thank him for recruiting me to come play football at Tech and that I really have enjoyed playing under is rein the past four years. So I guess the search for Coach Greens replacement has already begun, I think that it will be a good thing to get some fresh blood in the football program, just like Coach Green said, the new coach will have twenty three new scholarships to give out, a new scoreboard and probably a new conference. Don’t get me wrong I really liked Coach Green and all that he has done for Digger Football. So hunting season is officially over, I shot a nice buck and then a doe, my dad and I both didn’t even get a shot off on one, it is the first time in about fifteen years, so that sucks that we will have to buy burger this year instead of having our usual supply of elk burger.

Reasonable Manner

Well hello everyone, I hope that you all are enjoying our first real snow day that we have had this year. I can’t believe how nice of weather we have had lately, usually its freezing cold with snow. My topic for this blog is going to be grading in the college system. When I say grading I mean the time it takes for our professors to grade stuff we turn in. I believe that if we the students are held responsible for studying for tests, or turning in homework on time, or writing papers, that we should have the right to have whatever we turned in back in a reasonable manner. I have classes that we turned stuff in during the first week of the semester and haven’t gotten back yet, which means that I don’t know if I’m currently passing or failing classes, which isn’t a good thing. I know that professors are really busy and teach many classes upwards toward five, but if they have such a heavy load they should not assign so many assignments, papers, or test that they will have to eventually grade. Not knowing where we stand in a class by a letter grade can be very discouraging, how can our school system expect so much out of the students when we don’t get anything we turn in back. So on less serious note, football is almost over which is very sad, I’m going to really miss a couple of our seniors. I can’t believe that I’m going to be a senior in football next year; gosh it feels like just yesterday that my parents were helping me move into the dorms before my first two-a-days. This season hasn’t gone at all like we planned it, but it has been a really fun ride and I would like to thank all of our seniors.

When I Say “brown” I Mean Elk!!!

Hey everyone, well hunting season has officially started. Today wasn’t the “official” opening day since they changed the regular opening day from Sunday to Saturday. Right now I really down care for this rule change since I’m still playing football and I can’t hunt on Saturday’s during football season, which means that the elk are already spooked for us on Sunday. But after next year I will really enjoy this new rule because then I can hunt a full weekend. So today my father and I went out hunting, we didn’t see any “brown”, when I say “brown” I mean elk. We did though run across a wolf, it was mind boggling, we were on our way back from hunting and we had one run across the road on us, it was massive and looked like a German Sheppard. This was the first time I have ever seen a wolf in the wild, I still can believe that I saw one. One thing that really bothered me while hunting today was all the beer cans my dad and I picked up on the trail, I bet we picked up ten beer cans; I sure would like to punch the person responsible. First of all who drinks and hunts and second of all if you’re going to bring crap into the wild just bring it out. I’m not a “tree hugger” by any means but it’s just respect for our wilderness and the sport. On a liter not I would like to talk about something at Montana Tech, I would just like to thank Chancellor Gilmore on a job well done while he has been in power. I really enjoy talking with Chancellor Gilmore on occasion a lot and really respect his open-door policy that he has on campus with all of his students. Even though we are not a very large campus, Chancellor Gilmore always has time for the students; even if the task is something as silly as pulling raffle tickets for our football team on home-games for our football team. I would just like to thank Chancellor Gilmore for everything that he has done here at Montana Tech.

Nothing Like It!!!

Well happy Monday everyone, if there is such a thing. Well this last weekend went very good, first of all we got a win against the Western Bulldogs for our homecoming weekend and second of all, my mom and dad stayed the whole weekend, which I really like when they do. So this weekend I will be traveling up to Helena because the whole Frontier Conference is off this weekend, which means that we all have bye’s this weekend which also means that have some much needed rest to catch up on. While in Helena this weekend, I will be doing some fishing depending on the weather, but for sure will be sighting in my hunting rifle for this upcoming hunting season. I can’t wait for hunting season to start, hunting is just so relaxing, there’s nothing like walking through the woods during a cold winter morning while the sun is just waking up and is coming over the mountain across from you. If any of you are hunters you all know exactly what I’m talking about and if you’re not you need to try it sometime. Well everyone I hope you all have a great week…..

Well everyone it’s Friday, I love Fridays! I love Fridays because that means that the weekend is here and we no longer have to get an education for two whole days, unless our professors who don’t I don’t think understand the meaning of resting our brains, gives us homework. Well we play Carroll College tomorrow, for first place in the Frontier Conference. Our record against CC hasn’t been good for the past years, but there’s just something about this team, a breath of fresh air that I believe will make us prevail over CC. I would like to talk about the Eat Shit Carroll Shirts, well this year we had to take off the “Eat Shit Carroll” off our shirts, I don’t agree with this at all. Football rivalries are a great thing that can bring together a school; I believe that there are a lot worse things that we could do. A lot of people think that having that on our shirts is “classless” but I believe that it’s just a shirt. Other colleges with much more heated rivalry than our Tech Carroll have shirts that are way worse than ours. I feel like it really takes the fun out of the Tech Carroll game when rules are applied to what fans care wear and say to and at games. I don’t also get how that CC can tell other schools what not to wear to games when they have a terrible setup for their tailgating before games. Us the players have to run through their tailgate before every game many times and they yell things at us that are way way way worse than anything we could put on a shirt, they also in the past have pushed players on our team, but yet we can wear a stinking shirt. So on a lighter note, the game tomorrow is going to be crazy, I hear that there are going to around 10,000 fans for the game. Well everyone I hope you all have a safe weekend, if you’re going to the game please don’t drink and drive and always, GO DIGGERS!!!!!!

Big Win!!!

Hello everyone, well to start off we won last weekend up in Havre, Montana against the Northern Lights. It was a very hard fought game and our defense, simply played amazing and really picked our offenses slack up.

Well these past two weeks of school have been awesome, last week I only had school one day, since I don’t have school on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s, last Monday was Labor Day so no school and then Friday we left early enough so I didn’t have to go to any classes. So this week we don’t have school on Monday and Tuesday because of the Economic Summit, yet again I don’t have school Tuesday and Thursday so I only have school on Wednesday and Friday this week, jeez what a life, (LOL).

So this week we play the Rocky Mountain Bears from Billings, they are on a little bit of a hot streak since they almost beat Carroll College and then beat Western last weekend, so they will be coming into Alumni Coliseum ready to play.

I don’t know about everyone else but I’m really getting excited hunting season to start up, I drew a cow tag in 335 which is up at the cabin we usually go to every hunting season. I really hope that I can get back up to Malta with Vance this hunting season to try and shoot another buck, I really enjoyed hunting out of a blind, and hunting dear is just really fun to do, especially after hunting elk and walking your buns off.

On a different note I would like to talk about something that I saw today that really bothered me, people who ride in the electric carts at stores and really don’t need them. There was a lady at Walmart today that I saw get up and walk perfectly fine all the way out to her car which was our further than my truck was. I saw this lady driving the cart around Walmart and she almost ran me over when I was grabbing something off the shelve. I got really mad about it because the isle was jam packed and she was weaving in and out of people and just didn’t wait until it cleared up and I wasn’t the only person who got mad about it this. Don’t get me wrong, I think that if people really need these carts because they are older or really need them, but when people are just lazy it really bothers me.

Big Game This Weekend!!!

Well hello everyone, I hope that all of your first weeks of school went great. So my school schedule this semester is AWESOME. I only have school on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays. I have four classes on those days so I have a pretty hefty load. So this last weekend we lost our first game of the season. Our defense played out standing, our offense on the other hand just couldn’t get things rolling for some reason. I personally think that up front with our offensive line, it was just chemistry; we have had a lot of injuries during camp which means a lot of younger guys have got valuable playing time, which means that our starters haven’t played a lot together this fall. So my aunt Debbie came down for my first game this past Saturday, she came down last Wednesday afternoon and stayed with me at my house until yesterday Sunday. On Wednesday when she got here we went out to dinner at the Hanging Five, then my mom came down Thursday and then we went out to Metals for appetizers. My house was pretty full this past weekend; I had my mom, dad, sis, Vance, April and my aunt Debbie, so there were beds everywhere, but it was sure fun having the family together since my family on both sides don’t have family reunions and such. So when I got back from Denver my shoulder mount of my deer was finished up when my parents got here this weekend they helped me hang them on the wall, so take a look. This weekend we play Eastern Oregon, last year they beat us here in Butte but we beat them in Oregon so it should be a great game. Well everyone, I hope you all come out and support us this weekend at Alumni Coliseum.