Kyon Clark commits to Montana

[spsyk]

Don't want to mix apples with oranges, however high school athletes will more than likely go with what they feel is there best offer.

Case in point, coach Tinkle, and his wife love the UM, however all three of their kids never even consider UM, however, making the decision more for the quality of education, in kind for the athletic ability they possessed.

And this while there father was employed at the UM.

The outstanding athletes making the next step, NFL, NBA, from the UM, where developed, and overachievers, that were overlooked by the FBS and the upper caliber schools, in fact some where walk-ons and where even overlooked by the UM, and that is the way it is always going to be.

Appreciate and enjoy the talented athlete that passes thru one of the respected FCS programs, the University of Montana.

After all look at the only poster on this forum "that played the game" even he went to Dartmouth, in lieu of Bozeman City College.

 

[mtgrizrule]

Coaching friends of mine in NV and CA have pointed out to me many of the recruits and their families are sold on the quality of people in Montana as a whole. They want their son or daughter to have solid local support in absence of the parents, coaches, and teammates not always being available.

I cannot speak for anyone else, but I do know, other than family, the great people of this area are what I missed about living here. The majority of people in Montana (the whole state, not just Missoula) have great hearts, listen, honest, and very trusted. The bad influences are a very small minority, which gives relatives, coaches, AD's, and trusted advisers a peace of mind that is hard to come by. Feel free to talk some of the parents and coaches from the larger areas of CA, Seattle, and Portland how important this is to their families? I've had quite a few tell me the people in this area were a huge selling point. That is something to be very proud of!

 

[krammer]

I don't know about all this stuff,,,,what I do know is mr clark is a man and gets rid of a blocker as well as anyone....welcome to the griz family kyon clark....

 

[WaGriz4life]

WaGRIZ4Life, you're right--I completely imagined that Oregon showed absolutely any interest in Kroy Biermann and Idaho offered Cory Proctor !!!

And I also have imagined that never have we successfully competed for a kid with the Mountain West Conference and/or Pac-12 and won the battle. Jamal Jones, Ellis Henderson, and Van Ackeren are all going to school at UM, and two of them started at their old schools--Van Ackeren and Jones, Hawaii and UW, or for that matter, Kjelby Oiland and Trevor Poole, both recruited by Bobby to UNLV, and both transferred back to UM.

The point is we need to compete with The Mountain West Conference and The Pac-12 in our neighborhood for kids while also finding hidden gems right here in Montana and the region, like Colt Anderson, Marc Mariani, and Brock Coyle.

To run a top-notch FCS program, we need to engage in those recruiting battles, and while we will not win all of them, we will and have won some of them !!! And that doesn't happen by the coaching staff telling themselves, "We are lowly Montana, from the lowly Big Sky, and the lowly FCS, and we simply are not worthy to compete with Boise State, Washington State, and Wyoming for student-athletes !!! We suck, they are FCS and invincible, and woe is us !"

The point is we can tell prospective student-athletes of our strengths: academics, a mountainous, rural setting, and success of some of our student-athletes in The CFL and NFL.

While most of those previously mentioned GRIZ may not have received a formal 1-A offer, the point is they were good enough to play in The NFL, and, therefore, they were easily good enough to play in The Pac-12 and The Mountain West, and our coaching staff is and should be confident when they are out recruiting kids that we can indeed compete for student-athletes with The Mountain West and The Pac-12.

And Reinell30 makes a great point about where do you have a better chance of seeing the field: Montana or Boise State, Colorado State, or The University of Washington?

Your coaches may or may not be accurate in their assessment of talent, and it's hard to get noticed if you are riding the pines. Remember, according to the collective wisdom of Big Sky coaches last year, Brock Coyle was2nd Team All Big Sky, not first team ... huh ?

:lol: :lol: :lol: Biermann did not get offered by Oregon and Jamal Jones never started 1 game at Washington, you don't know what you're talking about. We do not get recruits away from Oregon and Washington out of HS, never have.

 

[billingsgriz]

Well, WaGRIZ, in this country you have the right to be wrong, and I am glad to see you are taking full advantage of your right to be wrong !!! I think you use this right pretty liberally in your life, the right to be wrong !!! :shock: :mrgreen:

Jones played in 3 games for Washington as a redshirt freshman, was elected team captain for a game by his Husky teammates for their 2012 game against The University of Arizona after a stellar performance in UW's previous game, and earned a letter as a redshirt freshman as a young Husky. Sounds like he was doing pretty well in Seattle to me ... and as a redshirt freshman !!!

And while I will grant you that Biermann may not have had an offer from Oregon, they did demonstrate some interest in him early on but he chose Montana. Missoula is a lot more accessible to people in Hardin and SE Montana than is Eugene, Oregon. If Kroy is good enough to start in the NFL, could he have possibly played and started for mighty Oregon ?

Ah ... Hell Yeah !!!

 

[cclarkblues]

It looks to me that, like most Clarks, he also has some good moves around the dinner table. :thumb: :thumb:

 

[grizindabox]

 

[WaGriz4life]

Well, WaGRIZ, in this country you have the right to be wrong, and I am glad to see you are taking full advantage of your right to be wrong !!! I think you use this right pretty liberally in your life, the right to be wrong !!! :shock: :mrgreen:

Jones played in 3 games for Washington as a redshirt freshman, was elected team captain for a game by his Husky teammates for their 2012 game against The University of Arizona after a stellar performance in UW's previous game, and earned a letter as a redshirt freshman as a young Husky. Sounds like he was doing pretty well in Seattle to me ... and as a redshirt freshman !!!

And while I will grant you that Biermann may not have had an offer from Oregon, they did demonstrate some interest in him early on but he chose Montana. Missoula is a lot more accessible to people in Hardin and SE Montana than is Eugene, Oregon. If Kroy is good enough to start in the NFL, could he have possibly played and started for mighty Oregon ?

Ah ... Hell Yeah !!!

I hope you are joking. You said Jamal Jones was a starter at Washington. Wrong. Never started a game. You really think he transferred because he thinks Montana is a better school than the University of Washington??? Please he transferred because he thought he could start or get more PT than at Washington. Your post implied that Biermann chose Montana of the Oregon Ducks because of what? Location?? You're an idiot. We have never got a kid out of HS with a real offer from Oregon. Never. And we sure as hell won't anytime soon

 

[Umista]

This kid and others giving the nod to UM also get a damn good chance to play as freshmen and that is a BIG deal to kids.

Tinkles kid Tres was going to play for his father period If he (Tinks) stayed in Msla he would have played for the Griz! This from Tinks in my house! So some are as usual full of dog doo doo.

Also of note we will get some good players to come for many of the reasons mentioned by others including Msla being a great location, good education, good facilities etc.

 

[mtgrizrule]

Imagine that, one poster calling another wrong for his thoughts of why a player comes to Montana? Does it really matter why any one player is here? Can't we just be happy and support each GRIZ, without the pissing contests?

 

[WyomingGrizFan]

We have never got a kid out of (a Montana) HS with a real offer from Oregon. Never.

So, I guess this guy's just a walk-on?

http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205503987" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Or are you talking about something else? That the Griz haven't gotten a player that Oregon has ever offered as well?

 

[bobaloo]

My take or spin on Clark's verbal is a marketing ploy by him to increase exposure or looks from other FBS programs that may not be pursuing him a lot at this point He is not feeling the love and by verbaling to the griz is calling out for more looks from the big boys sooner rather than later.

 

[blackfootipa]

My take or spin on Clark's verbal is a marketing ploy by him to increase exposure or looks from other FBS programs that may not be pursuing him a lot at this point He is not feeling the love and by verbaling to the griz is calling out for more looks from the big boys sooner rather than later.

I also get that sense unfortunately.

 

[grizindabox]

We have never got a kid out of (a Montana) HS with a real offer from Oregon. Never.

So, I guess this guy's just a walk-on?

http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205503987" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Or are you talking about something else? That the Griz haven't gotten a player that Oregon has ever offered as well?

And he is at Oregon and not Montana. You are helping him prove his point.

 

[WyomingGrizFan]

We have never got a kid out of (a Montana) HS with a real offer from Oregon. Never.

So, I guess this guy's just a walk-on?

http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205503987" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Or are you talking about something else? That the Griz haven't gotten a player that Oregon has ever offered as well?

And he is at Oregon and not Montana. You are helping him prove his point.

Well, since when has there ever been anyone that would denigrate a student-athlete in accepting a PAC-12 scholarship over one from Montana? And if there has been, wherein lies the rightness in doing so? For instance, when did anyone berate Joslyn Tinkle in going to Stanford in place of the LG?

 

[grizindabox]

We have never got a kid out of (a Montana) HS with a real offer from Oregon. Never.

So, I guess this guy's just a walk-on?

http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205503987" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Or are you talking about something else? That the Griz haven't gotten a player that Oregon has ever offered as well?

And he is at Oregon and not Montana. You are helping him prove his point.

Well, since when has there ever been anyone that would denigrate a student-athlete in accepting a PAC-12 scholarship over one from Montana? And if there has been, wherein lies the rightness in doing so? For instance, when did anyone berate Joslyn Tinkle in going to Stanford in place of the LG?

WTF are you talking about. No one said anything bad about a Montana kid accepting a PAC12 scholarship over staying in-state.

 

[WyomingGrizFan]

So, I guess this guy's just a walk-on?

http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205503987" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Or are you talking about something else? That the Griz haven't gotten a player that Oregon has ever offered as well?

And he is at Oregon and not Montana. You are helping him prove his point.

Well, since when has there ever been anyone that would denigrate a student-athlete in accepting a PAC-12 scholarship over one from Montana? And if there has been, wherein lies the rightness in doing so? For instance, when did anyone berate Joslyn Tinkle in going to Stanford in place of the LG?

WTF are you talking about. No one said anything bad about a Montana kid accepting a PAC12 scholarship over staying in-state.

WTF are you fighting someone else's war for them? I asked the question of "WaGriz4life," asshole, not you!!!

"Evil is not so much of an infliction, but a deep set infection." - Boethius

That's one of the troubles with you white people. You're always fighting someone else's war for them, citing how much of a victim you all are in doing so, while you go around hiding your victimizing behind your so-called being a victim routine. So why don't you allow the person I asked the question of to answer? Get off your f***king high horse, creepo. You ain't the last word on everyone else's conversations.

 

[AZGrizFan]

And he is at Oregon and not Montana. You are helping him prove his point.

Well, since when has there ever been anyone that would denigrate a student-athlete in accepting a PAC-12 scholarship over one from Montana? And if there has been, wherein lies the rightness in doing so? For instance, when did anyone berate Joslyn Tinkle in going to Stanford in place of the LG?

WTF are you talking about. No one said anything bad about a Montana kid accepting a PAC12 scholarship over staying in-state.

WTF are you fighting someone else's war for them? I asked the question of "WaGriz4life," asshole, not you!!!

"Evil is not so much of an infliction, but a deep set infection." - Boethius

That's one of the troubles with you white people. You're always fighting someone else's war for them, citing how much of a victim you all are in doing so, while you go around hiding your victimizing behind your so-called being a victim routine. So why don't you allow the person I asked the question of to answer? Get off your f***king high horse, creepo. You ain't the last word on everyone else's conversations.

WHAT

THE

FUCK

?????

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

 

[WyomingGrizFan]

Well, since when has there ever been anyone that would denigrate a student-athlete in accepting a PAC-12 scholarship over one from Montana? And if there has been, wherein lies the rightness in doing so? For instance, when did anyone berate Joslyn Tinkle in going to Stanford in place of the LG?

WTF are you talking about. No one said anything bad about a Montana kid accepting a PAC12 scholarship over staying in-state.

WTF are you fighting someone else's war for them? I asked the question of "WaGriz4life," asshole, not you!!!

"Evil is not so much of an infliction, but a deep set infection." - Boethius

That's one of the troubles with you white people. You're always fighting someone else's war for them, citing how much of a victim you all are in doing so, while you go around hiding your victimizing behind your so-called being a victim routine. So why don't you allow the person I asked the question of to answer? Get off your f***king high horse, creepo. You ain't the last word on everyone else's conversations.

WHAT

THE

f***

?????

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

Is that the best you can do? Big fucking deal. Oh, by the way, you fighting someone else's war for them too, "AZGrizFan?"

That's another one of the problems with you white people:..you need an absolute 'Being' in order to be ethical; which only means your morality is but a sham.

 

[CDAGRIZ]

WTF are you talking about. No one said anything bad about a Montana kid accepting a PAC12 scholarship over staying in-state.

WTF are you fighting someone else's war for them? I asked the question of "WaGriz4life," asshole, not you!!!

"Evil is not so much of an infliction, but a deep set infection." - Boethius

That's one of the troubles with you white people. You're always fighting someone else's war for them, citing how much of a victim you all are in doing so, while you go around hiding your victimizing behind your so-called being a victim routine. So why don't you allow the person I asked the question of to answer? Get off your f***king high horse, creepo. You ain't the last word on everyone else's conversations.

WHAT

THE

f***

?????

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

Is that the best you can do? Big fucking deal. Oh, by the way, you fighting someone else's war for them too, "AZGrizFan?"

That's another one of the problems with you white people:..you need an absolute 'Being' in order to be ethical; which only means your morality is but a sham.

Oh, me next, me next! What the fuck are you talking about, and why do you have to be racist about it? Go!