Colter_Nuanez

Big Sky Breakdown — Coaches call, second week of Octoberhttp://skylinesportsmt.com/big-sky-breakdown-coaches-call-week-6/ Montana State — Beginning Portland State 8:24 Southern Utah — 16:20 Weber State – 25:13Idaho State 32:47 Northern Colorado 43:12 Northern Arizona 48:41 UND 57:39 EWU 1:04:15 Cal Poly 1:10:46 UC Davis 1:19:16

Thanks for catching that for me, guys! I wrote referencing the correct poll but pasted the incorrect one. Good catch.

Jahn, Kidder, Taubenheim named Big Sky Players of the Week http://skylinesportsmt.com/first-week-october-pow/ UND breaks into the FCS top 25 in both polls http://skylinesportsmt.com/und-breaks-into-top-25-ewu-um-move-up-while-msu-psu-fall/ I will have UND senior linebacker Will Ratelle as one of my guest on the Big Sky Breakdown podcast this week. I'll be sure to post.

BIG SKY ROUNDUP: UND powers past Portland State, turnovers lift Southern Utah past rival Weber Statehttp://skylinesportsmt.com/big-sky-roun ... ast-weber/

I also agree with this. Montana State is reeling and in real trouble. The Bobcats, as of now at least, look like the league's most overrated team. Also, after Saturday's win, I would say UND has the undisputable best defense in the Big Sky at this point in the season. Montana State's defense is among the worst I've ever seen. MSU has given up 26 plays of more than 32 yards in the last three weeks and that's with allowing just two against Cal Poly. EWU had 16 plays of more than 29 yards and NAU had 7 yesterday. MSU can't cover anyone and can't tackle either. A few striking stats from my most recent Sunday Notebook: Montana State is giving up 36.5 points and 464 yards per game this season, including 44 points and 526.3 yards per game against Division I opponents. Against Eastern Washington, Cal Poly and NAU, MSU is allowing 287.3 rushing yards per game and 6.1 yards per carry. MSU is also dead last in the Big Sky with a passer efficiency defense rating of 219.1.

Not true. I am actually a University of Montana alum but hold no allegiance in the league.

Full slate of Big Sky games highlight first Saturday in October http://skylinesportsmt.com/full-slate-of-big-sky-games-highlights-first-sat-of-oct/

Skydome renovations at the center of NAU's success http://skylinesportsmt.com/skydome-renovation-the-center-of-nau-success/ Big Sky Breakdown podcast: A look at Northern Arizona on the eve of NAU hosting No. 11 Montana State — featuring interviews with Marcus Alford, Eddie Horn, Emmanuel Butler, Case Cookus, Casey Jahn and Jerome Souers. http://skylinesportsmt.com/big-sky-breakdown-a-look-at-nau-leading-up-to-montana-state-matchup/ Tootell & Tucker — Week 2 of Big Sky play: Each week, Skyline Sports senior writer Colter Nuanez makes an appearance on “Tootell & Tucker”, a daily sports talk show broadcast ESPN 102.9 FM in Missoula and throughout ESPN affiliates in Montana. In this week’s episode, Nuanez talks with Ryan Tootell and Tucker Sargent about the upcoming week of Big Sky Conference play. http://skylinesportsmt.com/tootell-and-tucker-week-2/

PODCAST: Big Sky Breakdown - Stars of the Big Sky featuring Montana defensive end Tyrone Holmes, North Dakota running back John Santiago, Weber State running back Eric Wilkes, Eastern Washington wide receiver Cooper Kupp and Arizona Daily Sun Northern Arizona beat writer Cody Bashore. http://skylinesportsmt.com/big-sky-breakdown-week-2-bsc-play/

Email director of operations Brooks Nuanez at Brooks.Nuanez@gmail.com and we will be sure to walk you through getting a trial membership.

Big Sky Breakdown podcast — Weekly Big Sky coaches call, Week 5 — http://skylinesportsmt.com/big-sky-breakdown-weekly-league-conference-call-week-5/ Montana State beginning until 7 minute mark Portland State 7:05 Southern Utah 16:44 Weber State 21:41 Idaho State 29:23 Montana 35:32 Northern Colorado 42:31 NAU 47:28 UND 54:23 Sac 58:14 EWU 1:04:40 Cal Poly 1:11:40 UC Davis 1:24:15

Big Sky Conference play officially opens with five league games on Saturday http://skylinesportsmt.com/big-sky-opening-weekend/

PODCAST: Big Sky Breakdown (formerly Stars of the Big Sky) — This week featuring SLO Tribune beat writer Lucas Clark, Weber State safety Jawain Harrison, Southern Utah linebacker Mike Needham, Northern Arizona cornerback Marcus Alford and Eastern Washington quarterback Jordan West. http://skylinesportsmt.com/podcast-big- ... wn-week-3/

Strength, speed comes in all shapes and sizes in the Big Sky Conference — Featuring a little bit about Will Ratelle http://skylinesportsmt.com/strength-speed-comes-in-many-forms-in-the-big-sky/#more-9461

PODCAST: Stars of the Big Sky — featuring Cal Poly fullback Joe Protheroe, Northern Colorado safety Taylor Risner, Portland State quarterback Alex Kuresa and North Dakota quarterback Keaton Studsrud http://skylinesportsmt.com/stars-of-big-sky-week-2/ Big Sky coaches' call - Week 3 http://skylinesportsmt.com/big-sky-coaches-call-week-3

We have a new feature: a podcast featuring the players of the week and other star performers from around the Big Sky Conference. We will produce it and post it each Thursday. PODCAST: Stars of the Big Sky: Week 1— featuring Portland State CB Aaron Sibley, Idaho State WR Madison Mangum, Eastern Washington WR Cooper Kupp and Northern Arizona WR Emmanuel Butler http://skylinesportsmt.com/stars-of-the-big-sky-week-1/ And the weekly coaches call featuring some questions from me to Bubba Schweigert http://skylinesportsmt.com/big-sky-coaches-call-week-2/

Nine of the league's 13 teams had a QB battle during fall camp. Around the Big Sky feature: QB battles abound throughout the Big Sky http://skylinesportsmt.com/qb-battles-abound-throughout-big-sky/ … Quotes from all 13 Big Sky coaches about QBs. UND becomes the first Big Sky school to pledge FCOA (got some short reactions from Ads at UM, MSU and EWU) http://skylinesportsmt.com/und-becomes-first-big-sky-school-to-offer-fcoa/

Greetings UND fans,Colter Nuanez here. I'm the director of creativity and senior writer for Skyline Sports, a new independent subscription-based newspaper-style website covering the Big Sky Conference. Some of you may know me as the guy who formerly ran Bobcat Beat, an online news gathering outlet covering Montana State athletics in association with the message board Bobcat Nation. I've covered the league for various newspapers since 2006. You can read more about us here: http://skylinesportsmt.com/about-us/ With our new endeavor, we will have beat reporting about Montana State along with frequent features and podcasts about all the other teams in the Big Sky. I wanted to introduce myself to those of you who do not know me and let you know that I will be providing features and other coverage about North Dakota throughout the season. I frequent this board because I love Big Sky football and because of that, I know that some of you do know me. Last season, I wrote and broadcast on our podcast that I thought UND would struggle. Some of you took me to task! I was proven wrong and I admitted such on our most recent UND podcast. Our goal is to reach a point where we can cover the entire league with the same prevalence. Any interest we can get going at UND would be a huge plus. Thanks for reading, nice to meet you and don't hesitate to drop a line with comments, questions or feedback. Colter Nuanez Colter.Nuanez@gmail.com Here's the Big Sky-angled stories pertaining to UND so far: Big Sky preview podcasts — North Dakotahttp://skylinesportsmt.com/north-dakota ... w-podcast/ AROUND THE BIG SKYBig Sky officials, coaches react to addition of instant replayhttp://skylinesportsmt.com/instant-replay/State of the Big Sky is strong, Fullerton sayshttp://skylinesportsmt.com/state-of-the-big-sky/Unbalanced league scheduling interesting issue for Big Sky http://skylinesportsmt.com/big-sky-team ... ach-other/ Offensvie excellence in the Big Sky depends on the men in the trencheshttp://skylinesportsmt.com/offensive-ex ... -trenches/ Ratelle, UND defense trying to earn respect it deserveshttp://skylinesportsmt.com/ratelle-und-defense-looking-for-respect/ Other Big Sky stuff PODCASTSBig Sky preview podcasts — Sacramento Statehttp://skylinesportsmt.com/sac-state-preview-podcast/Big Sky preview podcasts — UC Davishttp://skylinesportsmt.com/big-sky-prev ... -uc-davis/Big Sky preview podcasts — Portland Statehttp://skylinesportsmt.com/big-sky-prev ... and-state/Big Sky preview podcasts — Northern Coloradohttp://skylinesportsmt.com/northern-col ... w-podcast/Big Sky preview podcasts — North Dakotahttp://skylinesportsmt.com/north-dakota ... w-podcast/EASTERN WASHINGTONLIFE WITHOUT VA: EWU moves on without star quarterbackhttp://skylinesportsmt.com/adams-depart ... pions-ewu/UC DAVISAggies hoping to prove they can hang in the Big Skyhttp://skylinesportsmt.com/davis-provin ... g-big-sky/SAC STATESac looking for help around dominant Darnell Sankeyhttp://skylinesportsmt.com/sac-looking- ... dominance/PORTLAND STATEVikings hope to win to keep Barnum aroundhttp://skylinesportsmt.com/portland-sta ... or-barnum/NORTHERN COLORADOWhye has walked path less traveled at UNChttp://skylinesportsmt.com/whye-has-wal ... -traveled/UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Grizzlies acclimating to Stitt's stylehttp://skylinesportsmt.com/differences-under-stitt/LIVING UP TO A LEGACY: Holmes hopes to be next great Montana defensive end http://skylinesportsmt.com/tyrone-holmes-campaign/Wagenmann anoints Kidder as next Griz No. 37http://skylinesportsmt.com/wagenmann-an ... riz-no-37/Last edited by Colter_Nuanez on Tue Aug 18, 2015 1:21 pm, edited 30 times in total.