So, you're telling me that an African American kid from CA or WA has academics as one of his top priorities for choosing a school to play football? Every one of these kids who are good enough to play at the FCS level have the goal of playing in the NFL. Academics are way down the list for many of these kids. Montana used to put many more players into the NFL than any other Big Sky school. But we don't do it any longer, which is a direct indictment of how far down our recruiting has fallen, even though most will not admit it.
Kem suggests that our location in Missoula, Montana is a detriment to recruiting out-of state kids. While CA kids might say "where is Montana?", I am sure those same kids might say "where is Cheney?", or "where is Cedar City?".
Recruiting kids from Texas and Florida doesn't seem to be a problem for North Dakota State, and Fargo is certainly way behind Missoula as a "frozen tundra" location.
You can't tell me that a recruit who is visiting a game at UM, SUU, or EWU, does not come away thinking that the facilities, and game-day experience at UM blows the same away at SUU or EWU.
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