MSU Hires New TE Coach

The Bobcats have hired a new coach for tight ends, E.J. Arnold. Bobcat fans sure remember his father, Dave Arnold, coach of the Bobcats in 1984 when they won the national I-AA championship. Here is the article:

MSU SIGNS ARNOLD TO STAFF: Montana State has added E.J. Arnold to its coaching staff, head coach Mike Kramer said on Thursday.

Arnold will coach MSU's tight ends.

The move was necessary after Jeremy Thielbahr was switched from tight ends to the defensive line earlier this month.

Arnold was a graduate assistant at the University of Texas-El Paso last season after working as special teams program coordinator the previous year. His father, Dave, was Montana State's head coach from 1983-86, leading the Bobcats to the 1984 national championship.

E.J. Arnold was a quarterback at Albion College, earning academic all-conference honors as a senior in 2000. He was assistant quarterbacks coach at Albion the next season and worked with wide receivers and tight ends as well.

"He grew up around the sport," said Kramer, who said he has known Arnold since he was born. "He'll be in this business a long, long time."

Dave Arnold, who in 1983 gave Kramer his first college coaching job at MSU, is now special teams and tight ends coach at Colorado State.