What's wrong with Montana All State Athletes??

waron · Post by **waron** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:48 am

In his senior year of high school, Montana High School Basketball coaches voted Jason Wright 1st Team All Conference- All State. He was first in free throws and 2nd in scoring. His coach said he was "The best I've ever coached in the state"! He was an average student, and never in trouble. MSU was not interested. [/u][/b]

mslacat · Post by **mslacat** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:09 am

Their are many players who are the best in the league/conference/ division/ or what ever, but are not very good candidates for the next level. Take the last 20 Heisman award winners. How many of them have gone on to become NFL super stars. As a matter of fact I would guess more have gone on to become NFL bust than super stars. The same can be said about about Montana high school athletes. This year Andy Garland is widely considered to be the best of the senior class in basketball this year. At 6-4 though, he is considered a tweener, simply not big enough to compete with D-1 power forward, and not quick enough to play on the perimeter. Still he will get some looks this winter.

Now also to your point I will say, though, that I would agree with you that in my opinion the Montana D-1 basketball coaches have historically rather taken chances on out of state athletes than in state athletes. Hasquet almost did not get offered by the instate coaches, McGillis got no interest, and neither did Crizwell both were offered walk-on opportunities at UM and/or MSU. I could continue with a list of players who were not offered, but went on to become all Conference players.

BTW there is also a list of 5-10 to 6-3 players who were scoring machines in high school that did bumpkist at the D-1 level.

Now tell me a little about Jason Wright size, pos, high school

Platinumcat · Post by **Platinumcat** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:11 am

I know nothing of this player. But, all-state does not translate into D-I offers.

Think about how many all-state kids there are every year in every sport. Not every one of those end up playing at that level.

Did he receive offers from other Montana/DI schools?

John K · Post by **John K** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:00 am

Perhaps this is a dumb question, but are you referring to THE Jason Wright....as in the guy who was allegedly murdered by Lebrum and Miller?

Slackjaw · Post by **Slackjaw** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:47 pm

I'm pretty sure he was.

He was about 5'10" graduated from park high (Livingston) in 98?

Post by **SonomaCat** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:17 pm

Has anybody figured out the point of the first very bizarre post in this thread? Would anyone mind if I just moved this on over to the smack board?

SACCAT · Post by **SACCAT** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:18 pm

Slackjaw wrote:I'm pretty sure he was.

He was about 5'10" graduated from park high (Livingston) in 98?

I did play-by-play for Livingston his senior year and can say he was not good enough to play for the Cats. He was a good class A ball player, but had trouble with guards that were quick. He also tended to drive to the whole without knowing what to do next. Just my opinion.

Post by **SonomaCat** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:22 pm

And considering that there are about 30 kids who make all-state each year, and only one or two generally get D-1 offers of any kind, it's pretty obvious that most are NOT going to get interest from MSU.

But the bizarre thing is that someone is bringing this up about a guy who was allegedly a cocaine dealer and was a murder victim.

For that reason, I don't believe this is a sincere thread and that it is instead just kind of creepy.

I'm moving it to smack ... I just don't think it's "Bobcat Athletics" board material.

grizatwork · Post by **grizatwork** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:39 pm

Bay Area Cat wrote:And considering that there are about 30 kids who make all-state each year, and only one or two generally get D-1 offers of any kind, it's pretty obvious that most are NOT going to get interest from MSU.

But the bizarre thing is that someone is bringing this up about a guy who was allegedly a cocaine dealer and was a murder victim.

For that reason, I don't believe this is a sincere thread and that it is instead just kind of creepy.

I'm moving it to smack ... I just don't think it's "Bobcat Athletics" board material.

I find this a very creepy subject as well. I am wracking my brain trying to figure out the point of this and why he chose Jason Wright as an example.