balla45 wrote:powercat wrote:First off i have to highly doubt the credibility of some of these accusations. If Miller actually did buy a player an apartment he would not be coaching anymore. I doubt that people on ndpreps know all the "Down Low" facts about these things. I'm sure administrators and officials have looked into these things and they would have been addressed. Also if an entire family moves it is more than likely not just based off of athletics. I do find it odd that a strong group of athletes has come to Bismarck in the last few years. However basketball is not the only sport recieving these athletes.
And if it was just as easy as recruiting, then according to most people's logic bismarck would win state every year. During the state tournament they did a profile on Finley and he put in a lot of time AFTER he got to bhs. So he became a better player at bhs and that has nothing to do with recruiting players.
I feel that this is only a problem because they won. It wasnt a problem last year when mandan won. Im sure that if Finley came to mandan there would be some huge backstory about how mandan stumbled upon a gem. But since he went to bismarck there must be foul play. I dont get it
Which allegations do you doubt? The only thing I have talked about Miller doing is contacting a Mandan player, because I know that is fact.
Go ask your local head coach about the Archambault situation and see what you find out.
If Finley would have gone to Mandan, there couldn't have been foul play because Mandan didn't have a coach. Finley averaged 23 points per as a sophomore. No hidden gem. Trust me.
I respect his work ethic alot. He is actually one of my favorite players to play with, I'm no Jalen Finley hater, I'm just being realistic. They would not have won the championship if Jalen was not there. Basically, Jalen Finley cost Mandan a title.
It isn't because he went to Bismarck that there must be foul play, it is because foul play happened that there is foul play.
i am not by any means saying that bismarck high WOULD have won state without finley but i don't think it is fair to say that if finley wouldn't have been on either bismarck high or mandan, mandan 100% would have won state. I understand that jalen was an all-stater and put up very good stats for BHS this past season but who is to say that if finley is not there someone else steps up and takes the role that finley filled, who is to say that if finley isn't there esley knows he needs to be more of a scorer in order for his team to win so he gets more shots, who is to say joliffe doesn't take on a more prominent scoring role (even though i understand he was off in the championship game but if finley isn't there an entire different chain of events gets set off and everything is different). The point i am trying to make is that you can never say what WOULD have happened if finley wasn't there so it is not fair to so if finley is not there mandan ABSOLUTLY would have won the title... also not saying that they wouldn't have, the point is that finley went to bhs and bhs won the title, there is nothing we can do to change that and none of us can say what would have happened cause it didn't so we don't know