Jeff Choate remembers the meeting room squabbles during his time at Boise State as the final weeks of the regular season wound down.
The former BSU assistant remembers Pete Kwiatkowski and Brent Pease, fellow members of Chris Petersen’s coaching staff, having some “healthy conversations” in the staff rooms the days leading up to the fiercest rivalry in the West. The heated conversations were not in the weeks the Broncos played Nevada or Idaho or Wyoming. Kwiatkowsi and Pease would argue and bicker and perhaps even wager when Montana State and Montana squared off.
“I’m not going in depth about what might’ve been on the line because I don’t want to get those guys in trouble with the NCAA,” Choate cracked on Monday with a chuckle. “But there was a lot of lively banter surrounding the Cat-Griz game.”
Choate is now in his first season as Montana State’s head coach. He will experience the rivalry first hand on Saturday as his Bobcats take on the Grizzlies at Washington-Grizzly Stadium in Missoula for the 116th rendition of one of the most bitter rivalries in all of college athletics.
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