2024 Willie Ray Smith Finalists/WINNERS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED

[AggiesAreWe]

Winners just announced

Offense

Hieko Malone    QB    Newton

 

Defense

Bron Melvin         LB      Kirbyville

[navydawg31]

Congrats to these 2 amazing athletes!  

[AggiesAreWe]

My vote

Offense

Dre'lon Miller

 

Defense

Ty'Anthony Smith

[BBfan061]

35 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

My vote

Offense

Dre'lon Miller

 

Defense

Ty'Anthony Smith

That’s who I would’ve wrote down as well

[GATA!]

Newton bags another! Congrats to all nominated.

[Setx fan]

I'm shocked. Congrats to both winners. They're both great players but I thought it was pretty obvious who would receive these awards 

[BBfan061]

Curious to what Tyanthony Smiths stat line was last season.. I’m just trying to figure out what would cause some people not to vote for him

[SmashMouth]

13 hours ago, AggiesAreWe said:

My vote

Offense

Dre'lon Miller

 

Defense

Ty'Anthony Smith

That's who I would've picked.

Congrats to the winners though. All finalists represented our area very well.

[AggiesAreWe]

29 minutes ago, BBfan061 said:

Curious to what Tyanthony Smiths stat line was last season.. I’m just trying to figure out what would cause some people not to vote for him

The kid from Kirbyville had better numbers overall.

Smith had 109 tackles, 23 for loss, 6 sacks

Melvin had 152 tackles, 30 for loss, 10 sacks

[BBfan061]

12 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

The kid from Kirbyville had better numbers overall.

Smith had 109 tackles, 23 for loss, 6 sacks

Melvin had 152 tackles, 30 for loss, 10 sacks

Thanks 

[Unbelievableee]

Might be the worse selection I've seen. 

 

Where are these two young men going to school on scholarship?

[CardinalBacker]

My understanding is that voters collectively agreed that young men who flipped their commitments would be considered to not reflect the character off of the field that is celebrated by the WRS. 

 

Or the Aggie vote was showing out.  I dunno.

[AggiesAreWe]

8 minutes ago, Unbelievableee said:

Might be the worse selection I've seen. 

 

Where are these two young men going to school on scholarship?

That doesn't matter.

The Newton kid is a soph. Had over 3000 yards of offense and 47 TD's

[Unbelievableee]

17 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

That doesn't matter.

The Newton kid is a soph. Had over 3000 yards of offense and 47 TD's

Understood. I did not know his stats and also thought willie ray award was for sr's only. My mistake

[Unbelievableee]

20 minutes ago, CardinalBacker said:

My understanding is that voters collectively agreed that young men who flipped their commitments would be considered to not reflect the character off of the field that is celebrated by the WRS. 

 

Or the Aggie vote was showing out.  I dunno.

I am not understanding, can you break this down for someone with a Spurger education please. 

[CardinalBacker]

5 minutes ago, Unbelievableee said:

I am not understanding, can you break this down for someone with a Spurger education please. 

The odds on favorites would have been Smith from Jasper on D and Miller from Silsbee on O. Both young men committed to Texas A&M, then decided to accept better NIL deals elsewhere. 
 

My insinuation was that either voters were turned off my these young abandoning their commitments, or just bitter Aggie fans. 
 

‘Twas a joke. 

[Unbelievableee]

1 minute ago, CardinalBacker said:

The odds on favorites would have been Smith from Jasper on D and Miller from Silsbee on O. Both young men committed to Texas A&M, then decided to accept better NIL deals elsewhere. 
 

My insinuation was that either voters were turned off my these young abandoning their commitments, or just bitter Aggie fans. 
 

‘Twas a joke. 

Ok. Was hoping you were not suggesting that miller was a bad kid off the field/court, because it does not get much better 

[AggiesAreWe]

23 minutes ago, Unbelievableee said:

Understood. I did not know his stats and also thought willie ray award was for sr's only. My mistake

You knew that it wasn't seniors only. Miller won it last year as a junior.

[Unbelievableee]

Just now, AggiesAreWe said:

You knew that it wasn't seniors only. Miller won it last year as a junior.

Did not remember him winning it last year. I wouldn't just randomly say that if I didn't mean it lol. I truly thought it was a sr award

[AggiesAreWe]

1 minute ago, Unbelievableee said:

Did not remember him winning it last year. I wouldn't just randomly say that if I didn't mean it lol. I truly thought it was a sr award

Ok B

[navydawg31]

How many WRS awards does that make for Newton now? @AggiesAreWe I feel like Newton has have the most. 

[AggiesAreWe]

10 minutes ago, navydawg31 said:

How many WRS awards does that make for Newton now? @AggiesAreWe I feel like Newton has have the most. 

These are the leading schools with WRS winners:

WOS-10

Silsbee- 8

West Brook- 7

Newton- 5

Nederland- 4

P.A. Memorial- 4

 

[Little Jerry]

Heard this very well could be the last WRS. Not much interest or support. 

[AggiesAreWe]

3 minutes ago, Little Jerry said:

Heard this very well could be the last WRS. Not much interest or support. 

That's the rumor.

Lions Club is wanting out of it.

Our voter panel has changed drastically this year too. Some have left the business and were replaced by some newbies.

But the big deal is we are getting less and less of local coaches nominating players.

I hope it continues but won't be surprised if it doesn't.

[AshlyHasBeen]

This was my first year not to have a vote since the early 2000's. Who was on the committee this time?