Brian Goracke looked out the window to see all the snow-capped mountains as his plane began its descent into Bozeman.
Despite it being Goracke’s first trip to the state, he found a sense of familiarity once he landed.
A member of Matt Logie’s first full recruiting class at Point Loma Nazarene, a Division II school in San Diego, Goracke was in town to take his official visit to Montana State. Goracke needed to decide if he and Logie were going to continue their careers together.
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