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Montana Tech 97 Simpson 0

I've heard Simpson is like historically bad. My next door neighbor is a high school Senior, and a few weeks ago, he went on a recruiting visit to Carroll and the game he attended was against Simpson. He said they were so bad that it looked like nobody on their was trying at all. Said that it looked like they were literally giving zero effort.
 
I was in attendance. That was the worst football team I’ve ever seen. I do believe all our intramural flag football teams could take them.
 
Money! said:
I was in attendance. That was the worst football team I’ve ever seen. I do believe all our intramural flag football teams could take them.
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If you are attending this many games across the state, you are not fulfilling your obligation as a college student to party hard enough on Friday night. You're supposed to be too hungover for a game like Tech vs Simpson.
 
Record is 0-7, and they WANT TO MOVE UP:
College of Idaho 65-0
Pacific Lutheran 43-0
S. Oregon 70-7
Carroll 52-0
Willamette 21-18
Ottawa 76-14
Tech 97-0

Moral of the story might be 'be careful what you wish for...'
 
I know I've been critical of the scats scheduling creampuffs, but this leaves me speechless, almost. It's like they have nowhere to move  DOWN to. Some of the game recaps, newspaper writeups, and Box Scores show how bad they really are. A few big plays through third stringers, or nada.
Good question about Willamette, though. They must be the SECOND worst team in football, hands down.
 
Is it also the first year any of these kids have played football in their lives? Is the entire team made up of unrecruited freshman? I mean there’s high schools out there that would put up a better fight😂. I mean shit, 3/4 of Tech’s roster played high school football in montana in the last couple years while I’m assuming most all these kids played in Cali.

Update: So after writing the above part, I started to question if this isn’t another Bishop Sycamore High School scenario on a much grander scale. I did a quick dive into their roster and I’ll just say it seems very odd. To begin with there’s 123 kids on roster with 101 of them from Cali. The other 22 come scattered from Hawaii to Georgia, Texas to Alaska and Ohio. There’s six seniors, 39 juniors, 15 sophomores, and 63 freshman. I’m assuming they’re given a pass on roster size being a first year program although they did have a scrimmage season last year. Interested in a coaching history of a coach that would take on such a challenge, I checked his bio and he sounds legit. He’s been coaching 20 years but got his first job from his alma mater, a Christian school, immediately after graduation. His assistant head coach sounds like he’s got a cool story, playing along side the head coach four years after retiring from 20 years of active service in the Army and Guard. He did another 10 years in reserve while playing and then also immediately getting into coaching. The really odd part though is when you start looking into the players bios. All six Sr’s, about 3/4 the Jr’s, and one So have suited up for another college team in their career. Only about 1/4 of them gave credit for a stat and all the ones that did were like “Smith played in 2 games and recorded 1 tackle while at Such n’ Such.” All the rest of the bios have the exact same “Johnson is from Such n Such and attended Such n Such High School.” Zero mention of any high school credentials. I find it hard to imagine not a single one of these kids earned some sort of recognition while playing high school football. I imagine the logical answer is they chose for some reason to keep everyone’s generic since probably only a handful of the 123 did earn some award. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks the coaches wanted to put a bunch of very inexperienced football players together on a team, get them into a conference, and put together a couple of seasons to hopefully get a great feel good story out of it to sell to the public. Imagine they take on all these kids with no experience a build a team to compete in an established football league. Obviously this is gonna take several seasons so you’re guaranteed to get a couple years of viewership. I’m sure my brain has built this up way more then it is but just imagine the story.
 
alabamagrizzly said:
Is it also the first year any of these kids have played football in their lives? Is the entire team made up of unrecruited freshman? I mean there’s high schools out there that would put up a better fight😂. I mean shit, 3/4 of Tech’s roster played high school football in montana in the last couple years while I’m assuming most all these kids played in Cali.

Update: So after writing the above part, I started to question if this isn’t another Bishop Sycamore High School scenario on a much grander scale. I did a quick dive into their roster and I’ll just say it seems very odd. To begin with there’s 123 kids on roster with 101 of them from Cali. The other 22 come scattered from Hawaii to Georgia, Texas to Alaska and Ohio. There’s six seniors, 39 juniors, 15 sophomores, and 63 freshman. I’m assuming they’re given a pass on roster size being a first year program although they did have a scrimmage season last year. Interested in a coaching history of a coach that would take on such a challenge, I checked his bio and he sounds legit. He’s been coaching 20 years but got his first job from his alma mater, a Christian school, immediately after graduation. His assistant head coach sounds like he’s got a cool story, playing along side the head coach four years after retiring from 20 years of active service in the Army and Guard. He did another 10 years in reserve while playing and then also immediately getting into coaching. The really odd part though is when you start looking into the players bios. All six Sr’s, about 3/4 the Jr’s, and one So have suited up for another college team in their career. Only about 1/4 of them gave credit for a stat and all the ones that did were like “Smith played in 2 games and recorded 1 tackle while at Such n’ Such.” All the rest of the bios have the exact same “Johnson is from Such n Such and attended Such n Such High School.” Zero mention of any high school credentials. I find it hard to imagine not a single one of these kids earned some sort of recognition while playing high school football. I imagine the logical answer is they chose for some reason to keep everyone’s generic since probably only a handful of the 123 did earn some award. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks the coaches wanted to put a bunch of very inexperienced football players together on a team, get them into a conference, and put together a couple of seasons to hopefully get a great feel good story out of it to sell to the public. Imagine they take on all these kids with no experience a build a team to compete in an established football league. Obviously this is gonna take several seasons so you’re guaranteed to get a couple years of viewership. I’m sure my brain has built this up way more then it is but just imagine the story.
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I read your story and enjoyed it. I can see you making this into a great movie or tv series about a coach trying to make a football team to get into a movie or TV series. I like it.

It may just be that their athletic department has no experience in what to put on the roster page, and it was just thrown up by a random IT staffer before the start of the season, and that IT staffer could not have given less of a shit about it.

Also, did you watch the BS High documentary? I was enthralled. That coach is one of the few times I have seen such sociopathic behavior
 
ElrodGrizzly said:
I read your story and enjoyed it. I can see you making this into a great movie or tv series about a coach trying to make a football team to get into a movie or TV series. I like it.

It may just be that their athletic department has no experience in what to put on the roster page, and it was just thrown up by a random IT staffer before the start of the season, and that IT staffer could not have given less of a shit about it.

Also, did you watch the BS High documentary? I was enthralled. That coach is one of the few times I have seen such sociopathic behavior
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I appreciate it. I think it definitely would make great TV to watch the kids grow up on the field. I’m sure there’s some great back stories that would lead to redemption stories. I’m a big Wrexham fan and this would definitely have that same vibe. That is if they start scoring some points. Nobody’s gonna wanna watch these kids get blown out by 60 every week😂.

I did not know about the documentary but now I’m gonna check it out. I’m sure I’m making much ado about nothing. To the web sites credit though, they did have a ‘23 roster also during their scrimmage season. So they have had time to properly give credit where credit is due but I’m also sure you’re right that some IT dude was tasked with this and maybe even a student. I know if I was tasked with it though, I’d want it to be as accurate as possible to properly give these kids their recognition. That’s just the perfectionist pride I take in my own work. I don’t carry that into any other parts of my life. Work takes it out of me😂.
 
alabamagrizzly said:
Is it also the first year any of these kids have played football in their lives? Is the entire team made up of unrecruited freshman? I mean there’s high schools out there that would put up a better fight😂. I mean shit, 3/4 of Tech’s roster played high school football in montana in the last couple years while I’m assuming most all these kids played in Cali.

Update: So after writing the above part, I started to question if this isn’t another Bishop Sycamore High School scenario on a much grander scale. I did a quick dive into their roster and I’ll just say it seems very odd. To begin with there’s 123 kids on roster with 101 of them from Cali. The other 22 come scattered from Hawaii to Georgia, Texas to Alaska and Ohio. There’s six seniors, 39 juniors, 15 sophomores, and 63 freshman. I’m assuming they’re given a pass on roster size being a first year program although they did have a scrimmage season last year. Interested in a coaching history of a coach that would take on such a challenge, I checked his bio and he sounds legit. He’s been coaching 20 years but got his first job from his alma mater, a Christian school, immediately after graduation. His assistant head coach sounds like he’s got a cool story, playing along side the head coach four years after retiring from 20 years of active service in the Army and Guard. He did another 10 years in reserve while playing and then also immediately getting into coaching. The really odd part though is when you start looking into the players bios. All six Sr’s, about 3/4 the Jr’s, and one So have suited up for another college team in their career. Only about 1/4 of them gave credit for a stat and all the ones that did were like “Smith played in 2 games and recorded 1 tackle while at Such n’ Such.” All the rest of the bios have the exact same “Johnson is from Such n Such and attended Such n Such High School.” Zero mention of any high school credentials. I find it hard to imagine not a single one of these kids earned some sort of recognition while playing high school football. I imagine the logical answer is they chose for some reason to keep everyone’s generic since probably only a handful of the 123 did earn some award. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks the coaches wanted to put a bunch of very inexperienced football players together on a team, get them into a conference, and put together a couple of seasons to hopefully get a great feel good story out of it to sell to the public. Imagine they take on all these kids with no experience a build a team to compete in an established football league. Obviously this is gonna take several seasons so you’re guaranteed to get a couple years of viewership. I’m sure my brain has built this up way more then it is but just imagine the story.
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It's very possible. There are tons of kids who want to play college ball but don't have the talent, even for the NAIA level. There also could be kids who never even played in HS because they were cut every year. I grew up in a pretty small town and even we had kids like that in bball. If any of them got a call from a CBB coach, they would jump at the chance.

I think I've asked this before, but it's kind of related: Has anyone heard of parents/players "buying" PWOs? Like, I'll see some kid whose only offers are from places like Whitworth or Willamette and then he signs with Florida (or some big program) on a PWO. My conspiracy theory is that those PWOs are purchased with the understanding that he'll never see the field, but the kid can hit the portal with the big-name on his resume. IDK, it just seems strange. Sorry for the tangent.
 
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