Next Level Flag Football at WaGriz

[Silenoz]

My boys are psyched for another season of flag football in a DI stadium with all of the parents in the stands cheering for them, wearing their own personal jersey, competing for a ring, playing against some of the best athletes in the area, being coached by the players they love watching play on Saturdays.

The problem? It's at MSU.

UM needs to get on-top of this and reach out to Next Level. Or setup their own thing. Anything. You have these facilities, you have athletes that are happy to be paid for giving back to the community, and you have a generation of kids that would love to be getting playcalls from Junior Bergen and Eli Gillman. And you run it in the spring so that it doesn't even overlap with any other existing football leagues.

Who would even organize this kind of thing? Sundberg? Someone yell at him at the next tailgate or something.

Next Level Sports Foundation

...no need for Next Level Basketball though. All I've heard are horror stories about how that's gone at MSU

 

[wbtfg]

I thought this was another thread about the defense.

 

[EverettGriz]

I thought this was another thread about the defense.

Yeah, you're trying wayyyyy too hard.

 

[Silenoz]

Bump. Someone over in Missoula needs to talk to someone in the AD about reaching out to Next Level. MSU already has 500+ kids signed up for the spring season, including my boys.

They are killing us in this sort of things - getting their players involved with local youth. The Perkins family does annual events in multiple cities with all of the Bobcat NFL players. Taco and Adam Jones travel the state doing their camp. Vigen does a QB camp thing. The NIL collective organizes events with players and kids. Every elementary kid in the county just went to the Bobcat basketball games earlier this week. And on and on. Even the Raptors do a summer camp. UM needs to step it up.

 

[Brother Bear]

Women's Club Flag Football​

The University of Montana is very excited to be the first collegiate program in the state of Montana to offer a competitive women's flag football team. We are hoping to start play in the 2026 spring semester.

Rajiem Seabrook will be the inaugural coach. Coach Seabrook has been involved in football his entire life most recently as a coach for the Missoula Sentinel boys team where they won a state AA title and last season taking on the Missoula Sentinel girl's program in their first year as a varsity sport leading them to the state AA semifinals. He is passionate about the game and excited to work with girls at the collegiate level and make the University of Montana the top destination for female flag football athletes in the Pacific Northwest.

 

[AZDoc]

Women's Club Flag Football​

The University of Montana is very excited to be the first collegiate program in the state of Montana to offer a competitive women's flag football team. We are hoping to start play in the 2026 spring semester.

Rajiem Seabrook will be the inaugural coach. Coach Seabrook has been involved in football his entire life most recently as a coach for the Missoula Sentinel boys team where they won a state AA title and last season taking on the Missoula Sentinel girl's program in their first year as a varsity sport leading them to the state AA semifinals. He is passionate about the game and excited to work with girls at the collegiate level and make the University of Montana the top destination for female flag football athletes in the Pacific Northwest.

Well my 12 year old plays and is QB1, WR1, RB1...stinks that she can't throw it to herself. Perhaps she will be a Griz! hahaha This is awesome.

 

[Brother Bear]

Women's Flag football is becoming very popular in high schools around the country and even in Montana!
There are some really good flag football players in Montana for women's flag football.

Montana high school flag football is growing rapidly, with 28 schools participating in the 2025 season. The 2025 state tournament, held in Hamilton, crowned three champions for the first time in separate classifications: Kalispell Glacier (Class AA), Hamilton (Class A), and Three Forks (Class B/C). Funding from organizations like the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation has helped drive this expansion.

| Atlanta Falcons, Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation Further Support for Girls Flag Football in Georgia

The Blank Family Foundation provided grants to 304 GA high schools to launch a girls flag football program or support an existing program.

blankfoundation.org

Arthur loves to spend time in Montana and has his private golf course in the state.

 

[Silenoz]

There's some very good organized girl youth teams over here as well, with parents eyeing the inevitable future expansion to every AA school in the state. I'm honestly shocked that Gallatin and Bozeman High haven't done it yet.

 

[ilovethecats]

Bump. Someone over in Missoula needs to talk to someone in the AD about reaching out to Next Level. MSU already has 500+ kids signed up for the spring season, including my boys.

They are killing us in this sort of things - getting their players involved with local youth. The Perkins family does annual events in multiple cities with all of the Bobcat NFL players. Taco and Adam Jones travel the state doing their camp. Vigen does a QB camp thing. The NIL collective organizes events with players and kids. Every elementary kid in the county just went to the Bobcat basketball games earlier this week. And on and on. Even the Raptors do a summer camp. UM needs to step it up.

Sounds like we're getting closer and closer to you being a Bobcat. At least when your boys are wearing the blue and gold.

 

[Silenoz]

Sounds like we're getting closer and closer to you being a Bobcat. At least when your boys are wearing the blue and gold.

When you guys inevitably win another championship I'll cope by knowing it made them happy