EWU vs Montana Recruiting - Not pretty for Griz

[cats25061]

How has no one brought up the off the field issues they had. Lack of institutional control comes to mind almost the death penalty. Why would a parent want to send their kids their ...glory days are behind them.

The off field issues have been a partial cause in both student recruiting and athletics.

I cant find it now but a BN thread had a 2-deep comparison of MT kids, there are only a handful on um's 2-deep, while MSU is almost half.

Edit: found the thread, um has 7 (1 offense, 6 defense) montana kids on their 2-deep beginning of season, MSU has 21 (11 offense, 10 defense) mt kids on their 2 -deep. Doesn't count 2 kickers from Montana

What's your point? Is MSU that poor at recruiting that Montana kids can make their two deep?

MSU has been winning the MT recruiting battles in recent years. More kids are going for a STEM degree rather than a degree in dance interpertation.

"Montana kids should be just happy to walk on, we need scholarships for out of state kids" --Bob Stitt

My point is, what are you winning?

other than last year we have pretty much been at or near the top of the league every year for the last 15 years or so, I don't think Montana's record in the league need to be rehashed since the early 90's, these are teams with the largest part of the roster being from Montana. If you don't think that MSU is a contender and yo think that you blew out um last week I think you are delusional.

EWU is a good team, I always give you the respect that you have earned, its nice that you live in a state that has a lot more available players due to numbers but speed isn't everything. SAC and UCD live in the heartland of speed, they don't even have to travel 500 miles to recruit, and yet neither has made a lot of noise in the BSC. Its pretty easy to see that it takes more than a lot of fast players born close to your school to make a good football team.

I be the first to admit that MSU has never been known to be fast, and for the most part neither has UM. but year after year we go up against teams with some amazingly fast, athletic players and most often we finish the year ahead of most of those teams.

 

[sammamisheag]

http://missoulian.com/news/local/university-of-montana-enrollment-drops-but-officials-optimistic/article_fe0d494b-d38e-5445-99a1-a905953c945c.html

MSU 16,000 vs UM 12,000

UM has been declining over the years as MSU is the primary STEM school in the region and enrollments continue to climb in Bozeman each. This is a problem for UM in terms of budgeting. In fact, an MSU alum donated $19M for new Engineering labs and buildings last year.

 

[clawman1]

cat2506;
one correction- speed IS everything!
You can teach a kid most anything, you can even make him bigger and stronger but you can not make him faster.

 

[cats25061]

http://missoulian.com/news/local/university-of-montana-enrollment-drops-but-officials-optimistic/article_fe0d494b-d38e-5445-99a1-a905953c945c.html

MSU 16,000 vs UM 12,000

UM has been declining over the years as MSU is the primary STEM school in the region and enrollments continue to climb in Bozeman each. This is a problem for UM in terms of budgeting. In fact, an MSU alum donated $19M for new Engineering labs and buildings last year.

that is based on last years enrollment, hering um is down even more and MSU FR class is almost 1000 more than last year which was record size, MSU applying to BOR to begin building another dorm, (just opened one last year) and um still figuring our where to cut costs due to reduced funding.

 

[cats25061]

cat2506;
one correction- speed IS everything!
You can teach a kid most anything, you can even make him bigger and stronger but you can not make him faster.

no doubt it helps, but if that was true, SAC would be BSC Champs every year, carry on :thumb:

You cant coach a kid to have heart

 

[LDopaPDX]

cat2506;
one correction- speed IS everything!
You can teach a kid most anything, you can even make him bigger and stronger but you can not make him faster.

no doubt it helps, but if that was true, SAC would be BSC Champs every year, carry on :thumb:

You cant coach a kid to have heart

I'd differ in my opinion, speed gets tired, but strength is a constant.

That said, no chance Sacramento State has been anywhere near equal to our team speed over the last decade. If we've had an issue over the last few years, it's been physical toughness and durability. We've never lacked for speed at our level.