Paytonlives said:
The best palyer I have seen in the state is the Bozeman Hawks QB/ATH Tanner Roderick...
Gotta believe that UM and MSU are hot on his trail
Now this is what I've been looking for right here. Now we got six out of 84, unverified. This is what has me in a kerfuffle: It looks like Montana has 33% or so Montana kids on the roster right now, and the coaches look to be goin' outta state for most of the boys for the future.
If a guy looks at the Eagle roster over at Eastern Washington, he'll see roughly 75% of those boys come from the home school's state of Washington. Yet, as I can gather, The Eagles over there have nowhere near the following of the Montana Grizzlies according to attendance figures.
Now, the logical deal is to point to the State of Washington's FBS programs as taking fans from the Eagles, whereas Montana ain't got that problem because it ain't got a FBS program.
This is where I get confused: the Cougars at Washington State have about 47% boys from Washington State, and The Huskies at Washington have about 46% boys from Washington State. Yet, both of these programs far outdraw the Eagles at Eastern Washington in terms of attendance and overall program support even though they ain't got near the number of homegrown boys on the roster. What's more, is the Cougars and Huskies are not particularly good programs.
If having hometown boys on the roster is such a big factor for support, why do the Cougars and Huskies outdraw the Eagles? All I'm saying is that it might have something to do with the fact that the Cougars and huskies play Division 1 ball, whereas the Eagles play a division down. In which case the percentage of Montana boys on the roster, which a lot of fellas have said was a major reason to stay in the lower division, wouldn't matter as much.
What do y'all think?