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2009 MONTANA GRIZZLY TENTATIVE SPRING PRACTICE SCHEDULE
Practice sessions, 3:30-5:30 p.m. at Riverbowl
Scrimmages at Washington-Grizzly Stadium–TBA
Monday, March 16 - No Pads
Tuesday, March 17 - No Pads
Thursday, March 19 - Pads
Friday, March 20 - Pads
Monday, March 23 - Pads
Tuesday, March 24
Thursday, March 26 - No Pads
Friday, March 27

March 28-April 5 - SPRING BREAK

Monday, 6-April - Team meeting/Team Conditioning
Tuesday, April 7 - Pads
Thursday, April 8 - Pads
Friday, April 10 - Pads
Monday, April 13 - Pads
Tuesday, April 14 - Pads
Thursday, April 16 - Pads
Saturday, April 18 - SCRIMMAGE in Corvallis, 1:00 p.m.

Griz open 2009 with first day of spring drills
by: Fritz Neighbor of The Missoulian
Tuesday, 3/17/2009


The crispest thing about the first day of spring drills was the air.

That was the indication from Montana Grizzlies football coach Bobby Hauck, anyway. The Griz, runners-up in the Football Championship Subdivision last fall, took to the River Bowl with some 90 players on Monday.

Eighteen of them are freshmen who redshirted last fall.

"That's a big class and this is their first spring drills," said Hauck, who was in full voice early and often at the River Bowl and inside Washington-Grizzly Stadium. "I'm not sure any of them remember fall camp because it was such a blur.

"I think tomorrow we'll be a bit faster and a bit stronger."

On Monday, some were fast and some were strong, but it was a noncontact practice that was less about scrimmaging and more about getting assignments down. If not all of them had everything down, they have 13 more practices and a spring scrimmage on April 18 in Corvallis to iron things out.

That said, several receivers, freshman Sam Gratton among them, made some impressive catches.

"Sam had a good day," Hauck said. "Obviously it's hard to tell how good we're doing the first day. You get some pads on these guys, have them go live and it'll be a little better indication."

http://www.montanagrizzlies.com/pages/n ... =7954&m=18

Gratton is gonna be a stud. Went to Sentinel HS with his dad....his DAD was a stud too....