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http://www.goviks.com/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=2905

Release
7/30/2007
Corporate Sponsorships - Along With Excitement - Grow For Viking Athletics
The Portland State Athletics program has added 18 new corporate sponsors for the 2007-08 academic year. That brings the total number of corporate sponsors to 45 with several proposals still on the table, according to Scott Herrin, Associate Athletics Director for Marketing and Sales.

Herrin says that sponsorships have grown 35% in the past year, and expects that to increase to near 50% before the fall athletics season begins.

Some highlights of the upcoming year include:

- Mt. Hood Beverage and Coors Light have signed on as sponsor of The Ultimate Tailgate Experience, which will take place at the corner of 20th and Morrison, two-and- a-half hours prior to every home football game. The Ultimate Tailgate Experience features music, food and entertainment for the whole family.

- Portland State Athletics will host the Viking Sports Luncheon sponsored by West Coast Bank at Old Spaghetti Factory, every Tuesday from noon to 1 p.m., beginning August 28. The luncheon takes place at the Old Spaghetti Factory location on 0715 SW Bancroft in Portland and will feature Viking football coaches and athletes as well as other Portland State sports. Cost is $10.

- Another new corporate sponsor, Re/Max, will be active with the Vikings this year, including sponsoring the Re/ Max Recap post-game show on all football and basketball radio broadcasts.

- During the months of September and October, Plaid Pantry will be promoting a Fan Fly Away to the Northern Colorado game. Fans will have an opportunity to win a trip for two to the game, with a VIP tour of the Coors Brewing Company.

- Portland State has teamed with The Oregonian for two promotions. In August, they will co-sponsor a contest in which two fans can win a trip to the San Diego State game on Sept. 22. The Oregonian is also sponsoring the Salute to Veterans at the November 10 game against Montana State. All active military and veterans will receive free admission to the game.

- Chevron will be sponsoring a Fan Fly Away contest to the Montana game on Nov. 3. In addition, Chevron will hand out 4,000 thundersticks at the home opener against UC Davis on Sept. 8.

- Cricket Wireless will sponsor a fireworks’ spectacular at halftime of the home opener on Sept. 8. Cricket Wireless will also co-promote Viking Athletics advertising on TriMet busses in the downtown area.

- West Coast Bank will give away 4,000 thundersticks at the Northern Arizona game on Oct. 6.

- The Oregon Lottery will hand out scratch off tickets at a game to be determined this season.

- MWave.com is back on board this year, after giving away laptop computers to fans last year. This season, MWave will sponsor Extreme Making Over - Viking Edition, coming soon on OregonLive.com.

A full promotional schedule for Portland State Athletics will be released later in August.

PORTLAND STATE ATHLETICS CORPORATE SPONSORS
(*new sponsors in 2007-0
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Media Partners
The Portland Tribune
The Oregonian*
KOIN 6*
FOX 12*
KTRO
Yellow Book

Auto Dealers
Gresham Ford*
KUNI BMW*
Miles Chevrolet
Wentworth Chevrolet
Weston Pontiac*

Restaurant Partners
Oba*
Hall Street Grill*
The Cheerful Tortoise
Chipotle
The Old Spaghetti Factory
PaPa John’s
Sweet Tomatoes

Hotel Properties
University Place
Shilo Inns*

Business
Benson Industries*
Chevron
Cricket*
DocuMart
Joe’s
Harsch Investment Properties*
JBL&K Risk Services*
Key Bank*
Les Schwab
MBNA/PSU Alumni Association
Mt. Hood Beverage*
MWave.com
McKenzie Athletic
Nike
NW Natural
The Oregon Lottery
Pacific Office Automation
Pepsi
Portland State Bookstore
Redmond Heavy Hauling*
ReMax*
Sprint
Washington Trust Bank*
West Coast Bank
Zenners
 
forestgreen said:
http://www.goviks.com/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=2905

Release
7/30/2007
Corporate Sponsorships - Along With Excitement - Grow For Viking Athletics
The Portland State Athletics program has added 18 new corporate sponsors for the 2007-08 academic year. That brings the total number of corporate sponsors to 45 with several proposals still on the table, according to Scott Herrin, Associate Athletics Director for Marketing and Sales.

Herrin says that sponsorships have grown 35% in the past year, and expects that to increase to near 50% before the fall athletics season begins.

Some highlights of the upcoming year include:

- Mt. Hood Beverage and Coors Light have signed on as sponsor of The Ultimate Tailgate Experience, which will take place at the corner of 20th and Morrison, two-and- a-half hours prior to every home football game. The Ultimate Tailgate Experience features music, food and entertainment for the whole family.

- Portland State Athletics will host the Viking Sports Luncheon sponsored by West Coast Bank at Old Spaghetti Factory, every Tuesday from noon to 1 p.m., beginning August 28. The luncheon takes place at the Old Spaghetti Factory location on 0715 SW Bancroft in Portland and will feature Viking football coaches and athletes as well as other Portland State sports. Cost is $10.

- Another new corporate sponsor, Re/Max, will be active with the Vikings this year, including sponsoring the Re/ Max Recap post-game show on all football and basketball radio broadcasts.

- During the months of September and October, Plaid Pantry will be promoting a Fan Fly Away to the Northern Colorado game. Fans will have an opportunity to win a trip for two to the game, with a VIP tour of the Coors Brewing Company.

- Portland State has teamed with The Oregonian for two promotions. In August, they will co-sponsor a contest in which two fans can win a trip to the San Diego State game on Sept. 22. The Oregonian is also sponsoring the Salute to Veterans at the November 10 game against Montana State. All active military and veterans will receive free admission to the game.

- Chevron will be sponsoring a Fan Fly Away contest to the Montana game on Nov. 3. In addition, Chevron will hand out 4,000 thundersticks at the home opener against UC Davis on Sept. 8.

- Cricket Wireless will sponsor a fireworks’ spectacular at halftime of the home opener on Sept. 8. Cricket Wireless will also co-promote Viking Athletics advertising on TriMet busses in the downtown area.

- West Coast Bank will give away 4,000 thundersticks at the Northern Arizona game on Oct. 6.

- The Oregon will hand out scratch off tickets at a game to be determined this season.

- MWave.com is back on board this year, after giving away laptop computers to fans last year. This season, MWave will sponsor Extreme Making Over - Viking Edition, coming soon on OregonLive.com.

A full promotional schedule for Portland State Athletics will be released later in August.

PORTLAND STATE ATHLETICS CORPORATE SPONSORS
(*new sponsors in 2007-0
icon_cool.gif


Media Partners
The Portland Tribune
The Oregonian*
KOIN 6*
FOX 12*
KTRO
Yellow Book

Auto Dealers
Gresham Ford*
KUNI BMW*
Miles Chevrolet
Wentworth Chevrolet
Weston Pontiac*

Restaurant Partners
Oba*
Hall Street Grill*
The Cheerful Tortoise
Chipotle
The Old Spaghetti Factory
PaPa John’s
Sweet Tomatoes

Hotel Properties
University Place
Shilo Inns*

Business
Benson Industries*
Chevron
Cricket*
DocuMart
Joe’s
Harsch Investment Properties*
JBL&K Risk Services*
Key Bank*
Les
MBNA/PSU Alumni Association
Mt. Hood Beverage*
MWave.com
McKenzie Athletic
Nike
NW Natural
The Oregon
Pacific Office Automation
Pepsi
Portland State Bookstore
Redmond Heavy Hauling*
ReMax*
Sprint
Washington Trust Bank*
West Coast Bank
Zenners
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That is incredible, everything is pointing in the right direction, lets make PSU Portland's team once again!

Thundersticks will make the games very very very loud.....
 
Get on board! The more the merrier. I know there's a long way to go, but the infusion of cash has to feel good over at the Athletics Dept. offices. Heck, even if the support is in the form of in kind publicity, and there's no actual cash involved, this is still wonderful news.
 
http://www.theoutlookonline.com/sports/story.php?story_id=118564911467278400

Ice cream social welcomes Portland State football coaches
FOOTBALL – Jerry Glanville and Mouse Davis to attend Monday night event
By David Ball

The Gresham Outlook, Jul 28, 2007

Jerry Glanville

Portland State University head football coach Jerry Glanville and offensive coordinator Darrell “Mouse” Davis will be on hand for a free ice cream social from 6-8 p.m. Monday, June 30, at Gresham Ford, 1940 E. Powell Blvd., in Gresham.

A raffle will be held to win a a pair of season tickets or autographed merchandise. Proceeds from the raffle will benefit the Gresham-Barlow Education Foundation.

Everyone in attendance will receive a free general admission ticket to the Vikings’ first home game Saturday, Sept. 8, against UC-Davis.
 
"Portland State has teamed with The Oregonian for two promotions. In August, they will co-sponsor a contest in which two fans can win a trip to the San Diego State game on Sept. 22. The Oregonian is also sponsoring the Salute to Veterans at the November 10 game against Montana State. All active military and veterans will receive free admission to the game."

Wow, that MSU game will be a huge crowd if they promote this right. Hopefully we'll see those east grandstands. :-)
 
http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story.php?story_id=118582501147698400


Stories from the coach
20 QUESTIONS • Jerry Glanville’s had a colorful past, and he has the tales to prove it
By kerry eggers

The Portland Tribune, Jul 31, 2007

JIM CLARK / Portland Tribune file photo

PSU coach Jerry Glanville dished about his offbeat NFL coaching career and other adventures in a 1990 autobiography.
If there is a bigger character in college football than Portland State offensive coordinator Mouse Davis, it might be his boss, new Viking head coach Jerry Glanville.

The 65-year-old Glanville is eccentric, brash, terminally young (like Davis) and a daredevil who takes life much like a 365-day-a-year amusement ride.

In 1990, just as he was becoming head coach of the Atlanta Falcons after four years running the show with the Houston Oilers, Glanville penned an autobiography titled “Elvis Don’t Like Football.” The reference was to his practice of leaving game tickets at will call for Elvis Presley, who had departed the planet years before.

Glanville’s book has long been out of circulation, but it still can be found online.

I didn’t have the heart to tell Glanville I purchased a used copy from Amazon.com for 43 cents (plus $2.95 shipping), especially since the coach was nice enough to sit down for a little game of 20 questions.



1. Why did you write a book at this point so early in your career?

Jerry Glanville: It was to help out the guy who wrote it with me (J. David Miller), who incidentally is now doing a book on June Jones. I said no about 100 times.

I said, if all my friends buy the book, we’ll sell three of them. But the advance money was huge, and they printed 20,000 copies. It sold out in 30 days.

2. Why the title?

Glanville: They picked it. I wouldn’t have picked the cover picture they used, either. I’m just glad I had a chance to proofread the galleys before it went to print. You say something while talking at 3 a.m. in a Mexican restaurant that’s probably not quite so appropriate when it turns up in a book.

3. You wrote about the Detroit News newspaper route you had as a kid growing up on Detroit’s east side. How was that?

Glanville: It taught me a lot. I don’t know if kids today even do that sort of thing anymore. You’re up at 5 every morning folding papers. You didn’t make any money unless you got tips, so you had to be kind to people. They didn’t want the paper in their bushes. Some of them wanted the paper around in the back in their milk box.

You had to buy your paper route and work off your debt. If a customer dropped, you had to report to your boss they no longer wanted the paper, and you hoped the reason wasn’t because of the way you delivered it, or you would lose your route.

4. Were you working the route the day you were shot in the eye with a BB?

Glanville: Yeah, somebody tried to hold me up. We’re talking east-side Detroit, the 8 Mile thing — Eminem made a movie about it. I was about 11 years old. I didn’t tell anybody for a day. Lucky I did — the surgeon was able to save the eye. If it had been an inch the other way …

5. You sound as if you were a roughneck by your high school years. You wrote you were 215 pounds with a 19-inch neck, and your philosophy on the field was, “If that’s my man, I’m going to rip his head off.”

Glanville: Not long ago, my old high school put me in their sports hall of fame, had a Jerry Glanville Day and retired my jersey. But they couldn’t do it until we were sure that all the game film was destroyed.

My senior year, we were asked to write down the MVP, and somehow, I was selected. I always thought there were four or five guys better than me. It was great; I went into the Hall of Fame the same day as (Detroit Tigers manager) Jim Leyland.

6. Were you and Jim the same year in school?

Glanville: Jim was three years younger, but we were very close. He was a quarterback in football. At one time, we were on three summer-league baseball teams together. That was really my sport until maybe my junior year in high school.

We were both catchers. We’d play a doubleheader. I’d catch the first game and play third base the second game. He’d play second base and then catch the second game.

7. Did you really ride your Harley to high school football practice?

Glanville: I’d park it right in the locker room, just to agitate the coach. Fifty guys in the locker room, and I’d pull right in. Rode it to high school every day — even in the snow.

8. At Northern Michigan, you wrote you were in the best fight in the history of the school. Did you win?

Glanville: I got a whipping. The guy was an ex-Marine who became an admiral commander in the U.S. Navy. He left me with a severe concussion.

9. Then, early in your college coaching career, you were on a recruiting trip when a guy tried to hold you up. You wrote you “whipped out a 10-inch knife that I always carried with me and asked the guy if he had ever been stuck.” Did that really happen?

Glanville: I was up in Canada. I couldn’t cross the border with a weapon, but they let me take a fishing knife in. I was sleeping on a park bench. A guy came up to me, and I pulled the fishing knife out. Lucky for me he took right off.

10. Did you carry that attitude with you into the NFL? With Houston, you wrote that your defenses were going to “pin our ears back and start smacking people.”

Glanville: Sure. The “House of Pain” was what it was all about with the Oilers in those years. We had as good a defense as anybody in the NFL.

11. You were direct in your apparent dislike for several NFL coaching adversaries, including AFC Central foe Chuck Noll of Pittsburgh. Did you really hate him?

Glanville: I was shocked he was offended that we out-hit them. What offended him was we beat them at their own game. If we had been playing Frisbee football, he wouldn’t have cared.

Some of his assistants told me later his entire offseason was dedicated to me. Every day it was, “We got to get this guy.” It makes you proud, because he has four Super Bowl rings. He absolutely hated us because he tried to hire me as an assistant.

He told me, “You go ahead to Houston. We’ll be beating you twice a year.” In two years, we were beating him twice a year.

12. Sam Wyche of Cincinnati was another coaching rival. Are you guys really enemies?

Glanville: I had coached Sam in Detroit. He was a quarterback and holder on kicks, and I was special teams coach. He also tried to hire me at Cincinnati, to be his defensive coordinator. Then I went to the Oilers as the head coach.

The AFC Central was different. There were four teams — Houston, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Cleveland — three of them were going to the playoffs, and all four were physically very tough.

There will never be anything like that division again. The players didn’t like each other, the coaches didn’t like each other, the cities didn’t like each other. At the league meetings, when they’d gather coaches of the respective divisions for coaches, they never got one of all four of us.

13. Jimmy Johnson, then the coach of the Dallas Cowboys, gets some play in your book, too.

Glanville: When he first came to Dallas, (the Cowboys) weren’t real good. Then when he started winning, people would say, “You and Jimmy Johnson are alike.” I said, “In what way? We’re not alike at all. My hair will move in a 40-mile-an-hour wind. His will not.”

14. It was during those years you started wearing black.

Glanville: What really started it was one day we were playing the L.A. Rams, and I couldn’t get the players’ attention before the game. And a player said, “Coach, turn around and look. There are 70 people wearing white. We can’t find you.” So I thought, “I’ll wear black and you can find me.” Then it took on a life of its own.

15. You’ve had a lifelong fascination with motorcycles, cars and driving fast. You’ve even driven some NASCAR races. Why?

Glanville: Just always loved it. Speed is good. Look at that photo on the wall (of two race cars side by side). That’s me passing Dale Earnhardt in turn three in Atlanta. Me and the man, side by side. The week before, we were in Rockingham (N.C.), and he wrecked me on lap four.

Now, that photo was during practice, but nobody has to know that. I figured if I could get next to him in practice and wreck him, it would outdo him wrecking me.

16. During your NFL career you left tickets for Elvis, James Dean, even D.B. Cooper. Will you leave tickets for anybody this fall at PGE Park?

Glanville: I never did that after I left Houston. It got so big, it was unbelievable. I never wanted to do anything that took away from the game. It got to the point where nobody cared who we were playing. They wanted to know who was getting the tickets.

17. Do you still listen to Jerry Jeff Walker? Are you still a country music fan?

Glanville: I like songwriters. They write a three-minute movie. I don’t have two and a half hours to go to a movie. I can put on one of these songs and you have a movie.

Mac Davis wrote “In the Ghetto” for Elvis. Best song ever. That’s a movie. Jerry Jeff Walker got thrown in jail in New Orleans and wrote “Mr. Bojangles.” He became a multimillionaire because he wrote a song about his cellmate. That’s a movie, too.

18. In the book, you mention a disdain for the NFL media. Do you still feel that way about the Fourth Estate?

Glanville: Norm Van Brocklin once went in for brain surgery and said he wanted a transplant from a sportswriter, because it would have never been used. But at every job I’ve ever had, somebody in the media has become one of my best friends.

19. In Houston, sportswriter Ray Buck wrote, “If you don’t like Jerry Glanville, he probably didn’t like you first.” What did he mean?

Glanville: I’m not quite sure. But it’s probably true.

20. Do you have another book in you?

Glanville: There are a lot of things that have happened since then. We could quadruple any stories that are in there. My four years coaching in Atlanta is a book itself, and then there were 12 years in broadcasting and 12 years driving NASCAR. There were some unbelievable things that happened. But probably not. I wouldn’t have the patience to sit down and do it.

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From Salt Lake:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6400981


Big Sky football
College Football: Colorful Glanville back in black
Ex-NFL coach brings humor, dire attire to Portland State
By Andrew Aragon
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 07/18/2007 09:59:06 AM MDT



PARK CITY - The man who once traded Brett Favre has come to the Big Sky Conference.
Jerry Glanville, the colorful and at times controversial former NFL coach, took over Portland State's football program in February. He'll be a head coach for the first time in 14 years.
It wasn't exactly a lifetime goal for Glanville to coach in the Big Sky, but the conference that includes Weber State - the Wildcats play at Portland State on Oct. 27 - is one he said he has always followed. When he was a coach for the Houston Oilers and Atlanta Falcons, Glanville said players would read the newspaper during their pre-game meals to find out how their alma maters fared on Saturday. He was the only one who wondered about the Big Sky.
"Here are my defensive ends looking at the Big Ten, this guy's looking at the SEC and I'm the only guy going, 'What happened to Montana State?' " Glanville said while addressing reporters who cover the Big Sky on Tuesday.
After serving as an assistant coach for 12 years, Glanville got his first head coaching job in the NFL at the end of the 1985 season in Houston.
Glanville was a part of a legendary feud when he coached in the AFC Central against Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Cleveland. Then-Steelers coach Chuck Noll once confronted him at midfield after the game, angrily pointed his finger at him and made threats.
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Sam Wyche's Bengals once beat Glanville's Oilers 61-7, kicking a late field goal just to add to their point total.
Glanville said he found some potential candidates to replace Wyche and Noll in the Big Sky in Montana's Bobby Hauck and Eastern Washington's Paul Wulff. The three spent some time together at a golf tournament on Monday.
"I was with two guys last night - the guy from Montana and the guy from Eastern Washington," Glanville joked. "Maybe we can get a hate going, you know."
In some ways, the 65-year-old coach hasn't changed.
Glanville still dresses all in black, and sometimes wears shades indoors. His quick wit can still floor you, like the time he told a referee when disagreeing with him about a call, "This is the NFL, which stands for Not For Long when you make calls like that."
Glanville won't be giving anything away for free at Portland State, as he did when he left tickets for Elvis Presley at a preseason game in Memphis. That was years after Presley had died, of course.
Glanville will make $165,000 this year and has already boosted season-ticket sales for the Vikings. That was part of the reason why he was hired at Portland State.
"It's crazy to think that the coach can bring so much more attention," said Vikings linebacker Jordan Senn. "As a player, I'd like to think that what we do would bring more fans."
After getting fired from Atlanta following the 1993 season, Glanville took a long break from coaching. He bought a stock car and raced it, and he worked as an NFL analyst for Fox. He returned to coaching at Hawaii, where he served as June Jones' defensive coordinator the past two seasons.
Glanville is one of four new coaches in the Big Sky, along with Idaho State's John Zamberlin, Montana State's Rob Ash and Sacramento State's Marshall Sperbeck.
Nothing Glanville will do at Portland State can possibly match what his career is most known for. After the 1991 season in Atlanta, when the Falcons advanced to the divisional round of the NFC playoffs, Glanville traded Favre to Green Bay. Glanville said Favre's talent was not in question. It was his hard-partying ways that forced the Falcons to deal him.
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http://www.grizzoulian.com/2007/07/articles/football/jerry-glanville-looking-at-playing-sec/


Jerry Glanville looking at playing SEC

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Colin O'Keefe
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Trackbacks In a move that doesn't include jumping to a team that won't get killed by teams from power conferences, Portland State head coach Jerry Glanville is looking at scheduling games with SEC teams.


"When we were at Hawaii, we had a chance to go to Alabama and I promise you, none of our kids will ever forget that trip," said Glanville, who was the Falcons' head coach from 1990-93 and the defensive coordinator from 1979-82.

Glanville said Portland State will open with a Pac-10 team for three of the next four seasons but he still wants to bring his team South. Glanville said he's talking to "a couple of SEC teams" but won't reveal which ones they are.


For what's it's worth before he's coached a single game, this Glanville hire is looking very very good. If PSU displays any kind of success in these FBS games and Glanville sticks around for a few years, I would not be surprised to see PSU take a very serious look at moving to the FBS. Based on his brash personality alone, Glanville looks like the type of coach who could get them there.
 
Glanville is either crazy or courageous, I believe it's the latter. I feel Portland State could have been Bosie State before Bosie State was Bosie State, but the right steps were not taken in the past. I hope future decisions will be better and with Glanville I believe they will.
 
In thinking about SEC schools one would have to assume Alabama would have been contacted given JG's connection to Saban.
 
The membership on our board would double if we played Alabama. /users/31/07/37/smiles/734511.gif They have so many die hard fans.
 
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The membership on our board would double if we played Alabama. /users/31/07/37/smiles/734511.gif They have so many die hard fans.
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Trust me they are diehard fans! I post on another board whose team played Alabama and within 3 months or so 50-75 Bama fans joined. A couple still post on the board.
 
I work downtown and noticed a sign with a picture of coach Glanville on it. The sign stated " Meet the coach" at the downtown remodeled Pendelton store at the Standard Insurance building next wednesday the 15th between 11:30 to 1:00. I'm know I'll be stopping by.
 
http://www.oregonlive.com/vikingsfootball/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/sports/11866281406630.xml&coll=7

Glanville works up appetite for funds
The PSU football coach is asking for donations for a training table to help keep his players fed

Thursday, August 09, 2007JIM BESEDA The Oregonian Staff
Jerry Glanville was an assistant coach at Georgia Tech in the late 1960s and early '70s, and the way he remembers it, the Yellow Jackets' football program had unlimited resources.

"Guess what our budget was at Georgia Tech?" Glanville said. "We had no budget. We did whatever we wanted to do."

That's not even close to being the case at Portland State, an NCAA Division I-AA (or Football Championship Subdivision) program.

Without a major television contract to provide operating revenue and with the rising cost of tuition, student housing, travel and almost every other expense connected to college athletics -- regardless of the level -- the Vikings have to watch every dollar.

Glanville's arrival has revitalized interest in Portland State's football program and helped the Vikings' athletic department tap into a number of new revenue streams. But that doesn't mean Glanville has carte blanche.

He still must get the athletic director's OK on most things.

Sometimes there is money to spend. Sometimes there isn't. And when there isn't, Glanville still can get what he wants if he's willing to go out and raise the money on his own.

Take the "I Feed A Viking Club," for instance.

Glanville has put a new twist on a long-standing PSU donor program, hoping to raise funding for a training table -- a program that provides planned meals three times a day for athletes in training -- that is more extensive than anything the Vikings have enjoyed in recent years.

"If you don't have a training table," Glanville said, "your 280-pound defensive tackle ends up about 260 when you're trying to win the ninth game, because they don't eat like they would if they had a training table."

The Vikings' ninth game this season is at Big Sky Conference favorite Montana -- a game that will likely influence this season's league championship.

"We want these players to still be big when they're playing in Missoula," Glanville said.

PSU athletic director Torre Chisholm said perhaps the best thing about Glanville's project is that he "not only has embraced the need to deal with the football program, but he also looks at this as something that we should be doing for all our athletes.

"In a larger context, Jerry's goal is to eventually be able to set this up for at least all the fall sports. That's a little different. A lot of times you have coaches who worry about themselves and their programs only. So it's neat that he sees it more from a global perspective."

Glanville said he and PSU offensive coordinator Darrel "Mouse" Davis learned a hard lesson about players and their in-season diets two years ago as assistants at Hawaii. The Rainbow Warriors went to Wisconsin and lost 41-24 in the next to last game of the season -- and before Hawaii implemented a more extensive training table the next season.

"We were warming up pre-game, and Mouse says, 'When Wisconsin comes out, don't look,' " Glanville said. "I said, 'Moooouse . . . ' And he goes, 'Don't look.' Well, when anybody tells you that, you've got to look.

"So then I felt the stadium shake and I look and . . . holy cow, they were humongous. All of a sudden the scale was no longer balanced. Wisconsin was still large. It wasn't fair. They had been eating and we hadn't."

Glanville would like to avoid a similar situation with the Vikings, but he said he needs help. He's asking anybody who would like to contribute to write him a check for at least $250 or as much as $5,000 toward the cause.

It is a violation of NCAA rules for a booster to directly provide an athlete with meals or meal money. Glanville's idea allows supporters to make a donation to the football program, which he then earmarks for the training table.

"Feed a Viking" donors receive a window sticker that features the school's new spear logo and reads: "I FED A PORTLAND STATE VIKING!"

"I want it on your car's back window," Glanville said. "When someone pulls up real close behind you, they can't see a bumper sticker. I want people to be able to see, 'I Feed A Viking.'

"This will shock some people. I've never had anybody that I've talked to who ever said, 'No.' The people in the city have supported us probably more than anybody at the school thought possible. And I'm not talking about just Portland State alumni. Those people have been tremendous to me. But I'm talking about people that have never set foot on this campus who are helping our program, people that are interested in trying to help it be successful. That's what makes the job fun."

Cody Feakin, the Vikings' 6-foot-6, 295-pound senior right tackle, said the menu at mealtimes hasn't changed significantly since last season. The biggest difference from a year ago is that the team eats after practice
"Last season, a lot of guys would eat, come out and throw up, or they wouldn't eat as much," Feakin said. "What will probably help me and other guys maintain or gain weight is practicing in the morning and then eating right after practice. We get back everything we lost right away.

"It's a good thing for me, because it's all I can eat, and that helps me keep my weight up."

Notes:

The Vikings turned down an opportunity to move the starting time of the Sept. 1 opener against McNeese State in Lake Charles, La., from an 8 p.m. Eastern start to an afternoon start that would have allowed the game to be televised nationally. "Television cannot make me bring those kids out there at noon," Glanville said. "It would be like playing in a swimming pool. That's how much you'd sweat." . . .

Glanville has been impressed with the work of his younger quarterbacks, including freshman Connor Kavanaugh. "Nobody told me Kavanaugh was left-handed," he said. "I was kind shocked. I thought, 'Man, I wonder if he can throw that well right-handed, too?' " . . . The Vikings, who sold 944 season tickets last season, said Wednesday morning that they had sold 2,676, according to marketing director Scott Herron.
 
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