Analysis

MSU recruiting pitch remains unchanged despite struggles of 2016

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Michael Pitre is in his first year as Montana State’s recruiting coordinator. The third-year assistant has spent his tenure at Bozeman mentoring several all-conference running backs, including electric speedster Shawn Johnson and two-year captain Chad Newell.

Pitre has long held a passion for recruiting despite the 31-year-old’s young coaching career. As a player at UCLA, he immediately recognized the potential talent can make if you find the right fit to bring to a program. As a recruiting coordinator for two high schools in the Trinity League in Southern California, as a graduate assistant at Colorado and in his first full-time job at Montana State, Pitre has carried that understanding with him.

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About Colter Nuanez

Colter Nuanez is the co-founder and senior writer for Skyline Sports. After spending six years in the newspaper industry with stops at the Missoulian, the Ellensburg Daily Record and the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, the former Washington Newspaper Association Sportswriter of the Year and University of Montana Journalism School graduate ('09) has cultivated a deep passion for sports journalism during his 13-year career covering the Big Sky Conference. In August of 2014, Colter and brother Brooks merged their passions of writing and art to found Skyline Sports.

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