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August 12th, 2015, 03:22 PM
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The luxuries of the modern-day football recruit have escapedDane Warp (http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Dane-Warp-154317).The 17-year-old 3-star (http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Dane-Warp-154317) quarterback and shooting guard for the Havre (Montana) Blue Ponies is a throwback in many ways.
Since he entered high school, he’s been busy rewriting Havre High’s record books on the gridiron and the hardwood.
According to MaxPreps (http://www.maxpreps.com/athlete/dane-warp/y21hFfTyEeKZ5AAmVebBJg/gendersport/football-stats.htm#year=14-15), for his football career, the 6’4”, 190-pounder has passed for 8,407 yards and 78 touchdowns while completing more than 65 percent of his passes.
He owns the Havre High single-season records for passing yards and total touchdowns, and he’s on pace to break the Montana state records in career passing touchdowns (needs five more) and passing yards (needs 501 yards). As for basketball, the state’s career-points mark is also within his sights if he has a strong senior season.
Despite his athletic exploits and a 4.0 GPA with a goal to major in the medical field in college, Warp’s dream of landing a scholarship offer from a big-time college football program seems to be out of his reach. For the record, he does hold one offer in football from the University of Mary, which is a Division II school located in Bismarck, North Dakota.
His current predicament could be due to the fact that his small town (https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=havre%20montana)in the Treasure State, which is less than 50 miles south of the Canadian border, may as well be the Siberia of recruiting territories.
According to Mark Beckman, the executive director of the Montana High School Association, Montana is so sparsely populated that 105 of its 179 high schools have fewer than 120 students combined in grades 9-12. Also, the state features 29 co-op teams in football—where two or more schools combine to field a squad.
“As far as development, everything is a little harder in Montana,” Warp told Bleacher Report recently. “There’s no quarterback trainers in the area. I’d have to go somewhere really far to get hands on teaching with people who are experienced with this. There’s no high-level offseason programs here.”
In fact, there are no offseason programs in Montana at all.
As Beckman notes, MHSA rules state that coaches are restricted from having contact with their athletes when their sport is out of season.
Warp’s offseason is spent playing in AAU basketball tournaments, as well as spending whatever free time he has working on his craft by himself or with any combination of friends and family he can round up.
“A lot of me practicing is me out in the backyard with my brothers or practicing with our team,” Dane said.
Nothing comes easy in Havre—which is pronounced HAV-err—whether in life or in athletics.
According to U.S. Climate Data (http://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/havre/montana/united-states/usmt0159), the city’s average temperature is slightly more than 43 degrees year-round.
The long winters are especially brutal in this town of roughly 10,000 residents.
Late-season practices and playoff games are often played in blizzard-like conditions at zero-degree temperatures.
“There’s a lot of times when it is snowing and the wind will be blowing,” Dane said. That just means you put on a sweatshirt under your pads. You can’t afford to lose any days. It may not be the best team that ends up winning, it’s the toughest team. The kids are real gritty, here. That’s the best word for it.”
Living in Havre also means he’s isolated hundreds of miles away from any major college football program—including FCS home-state schools Montana and Montana State.
The closest FBS university in location to Havre, the University of Idaho, is 525 miles away. In fact, the average distance of the six closest FBS or FCS schools to Havre is 484 miles...
The luxuries of the modern-day football recruit have escapedDane Warp (http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Dane-Warp-154317).The 17-year-old 3-star (http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Dane-Warp-154317) quarterback and shooting guard for the Havre (Montana) Blue Ponies is a throwback in many ways.
Since he entered high school, he’s been busy rewriting Havre High’s record books on the gridiron and the hardwood.
According to MaxPreps (http://www.maxpreps.com/athlete/dane-warp/y21hFfTyEeKZ5AAmVebBJg/gendersport/football-stats.htm#year=14-15), for his football career, the 6’4”, 190-pounder has passed for 8,407 yards and 78 touchdowns while completing more than 65 percent of his passes.
He owns the Havre High single-season records for passing yards and total touchdowns, and he’s on pace to break the Montana state records in career passing touchdowns (needs five more) and passing yards (needs 501 yards). As for basketball, the state’s career-points mark is also within his sights if he has a strong senior season.
Despite his athletic exploits and a 4.0 GPA with a goal to major in the medical field in college, Warp’s dream of landing a scholarship offer from a big-time college football program seems to be out of his reach. For the record, he does hold one offer in football from the University of Mary, which is a Division II school located in Bismarck, North Dakota.
His current predicament could be due to the fact that his small town (https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=havre%20montana)in the Treasure State, which is less than 50 miles south of the Canadian border, may as well be the Siberia of recruiting territories.
According to Mark Beckman, the executive director of the Montana High School Association, Montana is so sparsely populated that 105 of its 179 high schools have fewer than 120 students combined in grades 9-12. Also, the state features 29 co-op teams in football—where two or more schools combine to field a squad.
“As far as development, everything is a little harder in Montana,” Warp told Bleacher Report recently. “There’s no quarterback trainers in the area. I’d have to go somewhere really far to get hands on teaching with people who are experienced with this. There’s no high-level offseason programs here.”
In fact, there are no offseason programs in Montana at all.
As Beckman notes, MHSA rules state that coaches are restricted from having contact with their athletes when their sport is out of season.
Warp’s offseason is spent playing in AAU basketball tournaments, as well as spending whatever free time he has working on his craft by himself or with any combination of friends and family he can round up.
“A lot of me practicing is me out in the backyard with my brothers or practicing with our team,” Dane said.
Nothing comes easy in Havre—which is pronounced HAV-err—whether in life or in athletics.
According to U.S. Climate Data (http://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/havre/montana/united-states/usmt0159), the city’s average temperature is slightly more than 43 degrees year-round.
The long winters are especially brutal in this town of roughly 10,000 residents.
Late-season practices and playoff games are often played in blizzard-like conditions at zero-degree temperatures.
“There’s a lot of times when it is snowing and the wind will be blowing,” Dane said. That just means you put on a sweatshirt under your pads. You can’t afford to lose any days. It may not be the best team that ends up winning, it’s the toughest team. The kids are real gritty, here. That’s the best word for it.”
Living in Havre also means he’s isolated hundreds of miles away from any major college football program—including FCS home-state schools Montana and Montana State.
The closest FBS university in location to Havre, the University of Idaho, is 525 miles away. In fact, the average distance of the six closest FBS or FCS schools to Havre is 484 miles...