The Bobcat Nation

mtblgscat wrote:Looking at the rosters of the MSU teams, I have become aware a lack of Montana student athletes on some of the teams. Football and track have by far the most Montana kids and I congratulate those coaches. Not only are they on the team but they travel, play and start. When I saw that there were not any Montana kids on the volleyball team I was shocked. You mean to tell me that there is not one girl in Montana that can play at that level? Tennis is also poorly represented with one male and one female. Skiing only has 3 out of 52 athletes from Montana! Golf has 4 from Montana but only one occasionally gets to play. MSU is a Montana tax supported school and most of the fund raising for the programs comes from Montana. Why don’t we have more Montana kids on our teams. Who cares if we win a conference championship in skiing, if we don’t have any Montana kids on the team. Our tax dollars would be better served giving more of our kids a chance to play at this level. In reality few people care about win loss records other than for the football and basketball programs.
Here are the numbers:
Men’s Women’s
Football 47/97 48%
Basketball 3/14 21% 3/12 25%
CC 3/8 38% 2/8 25%
Ski 3/21 14% 2/31 6%
Ten 1/7 14% 1/8 13%
Track 14/26 54% 22/38 58%
Golf 4/11 36%
Volleyball 0/14 0%
FB&Track 61/123 50% 22/38 58%
All Others 10/50 20% 12/84 14%

Total 71/173 41% 34/122 28%

mtblgscat wrote:Looking at the rosters of the MSU teams, I have become aware a lack of Montana student athletes on some of the teams. Football and track have by far the most Montana kids and I congratulate those coaches. Not only are they on the team but they travel, play and start. When I saw that there were not any Montana kids on the volleyball team I was shocked. You mean to tell me that there is not one girl in Montana that can play at that level? Tennis is also poorly represented with one male and one female. Skiing only has 3 out of 52 athletes from Montana! Golf has 4 from Montana but only one occasionally gets to play. MSU is a Montana tax supported school and most of the fund raising for the programs comes from Montana. Why don’t we have more Montana kids on our teams. Who cares if we win a conference championship in skiing, if we don’t have any Montana kids on the team. Our tax dollars would be better served giving more of our kids a chance to play at this level. In reality few people care about win loss records other than for the football and basketball programs.
Here are the numbers:
Men’s Women’s
Football 47/97 48%
Basketball 3/14 21% 3/12 25%
CC 3/8 38% 2/8 25%
Ski 3/21 14% 2/31 6%
Ten 1/7 14% 1/8 13%
Track 14/26 54% 22/38 58%
Golf 4/11 36%
Volleyball 0/14 0%
FB&Track 61/123 50% 22/38 58%
All Others 10/50 20% 12/84 14%

Total 71/173 41% 34/122 28%

Katmandu wrote:Hawks why must everything revert to the Griz for christ sake! Mtblg has an issue and posts a topic and the first response throws the question to the U of M. Unless there is a hidden message in mtblg's post that secretly refers to UM, I believe that his concern is about MSU.

mtblgscat wrote:Looking at the rosters of the MSU teams, I have become aware a lack of Montana student athletes on some of the teams. Football and track have by far the most Montana kids and I congratulate those coaches. Not only are they on the team but they travel, play and start. When I saw that there were not any Montana kids on the volleyball team I was shocked. You mean to tell me that there is not one girl in Montana that can play at that level? Tennis is also poorly represented with one male and one female. Skiing only has 3 out of 52 athletes from Montana! Golf has 4 from Montana but only one occasionally gets to play. MSU is a Montana tax supported school and most of the fund raising for the programs comes from Montana. Why don’t we have more Montana kids on our teams. Who cares if we win a conference championship in skiing, if we don’t have any Montana kids on the team. Our tax dollars would be better served giving more of our kids a chance to play at this level. In reality few people care about win loss records other than for the football and basketball programs.
Here are the numbers:
Men’s Women’s
Football 47/97 48%
Basketball 3/14 21% 3/12 25%
CC 3/8 38% 2/8 25%
Ski 3/21 14% 2/31 6%
Ten 1/7 14% 1/8 13%
Track 14/26 54% 22/38 58%
Golf 4/11 36%
Volleyball 0/14 0%
FB&Track 61/123 50% 22/38 58%
All Others 10/50 20% 12/84 14%

Total 71/173 41% 34/122 28%

Hawks86 wrote:
It doesn't But when the main argument is about MT taxpayers and their tax dollars not going to MT kids at MSU, it is more than fair to bring up those numbers from um, since um gets the same or more tax dollars.

catatonic1 wrote:
If you would take some time to research, you'd find that the MSU athlectic department is subsidized by the Montana Tax Payers by an amazingly larger amount than the UofM.

Katmandu wrote:Hawks why must everything revert to the Griz for christ sake! Mtblg has an issue and posts a topic and the first response throws the question to the U of M. Unless there is a hidden message in mtblg's post that secretly refers to UM, I believe that his concern is about MSU.

In regards to mtblg's question - my feeling is that coaches recruit to win regardless of the sport. If the best athletes are not found in MT then the coaches find them elsewhere. I don't care what sport it is, the bottom line in college athletics is winning. May not be the perfect polyanna vision that we have for our institutions of higher learning but it is a fact.