MONTANA STATE PRESS RELEASE
Montana State has scheduled two scrimmages and a mock game for its 2016 fall camp. This Saturday’s session, which first-year head coach Jeff Choate characterizes as “basically just another practice,” begins at 1:30 p.m. and is closed to the public and media.
“One of the few advantages we might have in early-season games is that opponents don’t know a lot about us,” Choate said of closing the first scrimmage. “To provide video footage or information on what we’re doing doesn’t benefit us in that regard.”
Saturday’s scrimmage, slated for around 60 plays, will feature both live and situational settings. But he said the primary focus is “personnel evaluation, getting a grasp on where different players are at. Some of it will be situational, but mostly we’ll just let them play football.”
Montana State’s open scrimmage of fall camp begins at 6 p.m. in Bobcat Stadium on August 19. The third game-like setting arrives August 23, when the team holds its annual mock game. That session, also closed to the media and public, consists largely of game-day logistics.
The three game-like practices lead to Montana State’s 2016 season opener at Idaho on September 1.
