As 3-year run comes to an end, Bemidji State’s seniors look back fondly

Dec. 1—BEMIDJI — Season-ending losses are tough to get over. That’s especially the case when a player’s career comes to an end.

The Bemidji State football team had a number of long-tenured players in its 2023 iteration, some of whom had been in college since 2018, 2017 or even 2016. Yet last Saturday at Chet Anderson Stadium, it all came to a swift end with a 21-17 defeat to Central Washington.

Four days later, the Beavers’ seniors were still processing the abrupt end to their careers. They were trying to strike a delicate balance between appreciating all they had accomplished while coming to terms with the end of their days playing college football.

“I’ve cleaned my room probably like three or four times in the past two days,” said sixth-year safety Jarrett Klein. “I’m just bored. Not much to do. … It puts everything back into perspective. You take everything for granted while you have it, and then the moment it’s gone, it’s that slap-in-the-face realization moment where (you realize) I’m not going to be able to hang out with the guys anymore.

“It’s not so much even the football, football practice and everything like that. It’s more the locker room banter, being around your guys every single day and overall being a family, honestly. Everybody knows everything about everybody. That’s one thing that I’m going to miss for sure.”

BSU has now officially closed out a historic run the likes of which had never been seen before at the Chet. The Beavers won at least nine games in each of the last three seasons, winning 10 in both 2021 and 2022.

Additionally, Bemidji State reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 2021, then immediately won the program’s first playoff game. The Beavers repeated that feat in 2022 and 2023, reaching the second round each year.

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Author : The Bemidji Pioneer, Minn.

Publish date : 2023-12-01 16:17:00

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