Jimmer's NY fan club lobbying for their kid

For those who want to know a bit more about BYU guard Jimmer Fredette’s background and what led him to BYU, I strongly suggest reading the stories I’ve linked to below. They are older stories, but good stories. One is from SI.com prior to last year’s NCAA game in Philadelphia. The other two are from Poststar.com, the company that publishes the Glens Falls Leader in Fredette’s home town:
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Earlier today I received an email from one of Fredette’s supporters in New York, Fredette’s home state, concerned that a once open-and-shut case for Fredette as the Mountain West Conference player of the year seems to have become a battle between Fredette and New Mexico’s Darrington Hobson. Actually, I’m kind of surprised myself that Hobson is suddenly in the picture, and might be the frontrunner now because some voters might be in the “what-have-you-done lately” frame of mind and have forgotten how dominant Fredette was and is when not feeling sick. The award will be announced on Monday. Myself, as good as Hobson is, I think Dairese Gary is New Mexico’s most valuable player. In fact, when the Lobos won at BYU, it was Gary who was recognized by the conference, not Hobson. Anyway, I’m going to share this gentleman’s email so you can see for yourself his argument and lobbying. He make a good argument or not? Read the email below to decide:

To whom it may concern: In the East we are watching with dismay that Jimmer Fredette may not be the Player of the Year in the MWC. Your own conference statistics prove he should be at least co- POTY. Out of 13 categories (from the MW website) for the season, Jimmer leads Darington Hobson in 7 of the 13 categories and in 4 no where close. Jimmer’s scoring efficiency is much better than Darington’s, free throw percentage is not even close and 3 point percentage is also a big runaway for Jimmer. Jimmer makes 2 1/2 times more 3s per game than Darington and beats him by 3.6 percentage points in field goal percentage. They tie in steals at 1.2 each per game. Darington leads in blocked shots, the least significant of all the statistics since both he and Jimmer are below 1/2 a block per game. Darington leads in 5 of 13 categories, 3 of the 5 are rebounding. Darington also leads in minutes played per game. I believe this stat would also be the same if not because of Jimmer’s mono. Otherwise Jimmer would have led Darington in every category except the rebounding categories. Jimmer won everything else.
In the conference, Jimmer unknowingly played with mono against UNLV , having a very unproductive game and also had 5 other games that he missed or had very limited minutes because of illness. Even then he still wins 6 of 13 categories and Darington wins seven. Two of the 7 categories are steals and blocks by very small margins. Darington wins assists by one and minutes played by a few.
In team statistics the MW website lists 15 positive categories and Jimmer is 1st in 8 for BYU while Darington is 1st in 6 of those categories for the Lobos. Jimmer was conference player of the week 5 times, Darington 2 times. Jimmer scored 20 or more points in 18 games and Darington in 8 games. Jimmer scored 33 or more 5 times, Darington zero times. Including the 49 point game, I believe it was 10 records broke in all. In one game!! One record he broke had stood for almost 50 years. He also set a record this season for the most consecutive free throws ever made by any BYU player (39 ). BYU has had some very good foul shooters in school history.
Jimmer has been nominated for both the Oscar (Robertson) and John Wooden Awards and is in the final running for both. Also Jimmer has been very much in the talk for the National Player of the Year award and still would be if it were not for the mono. This is witnessed by the fact that just a few weeks ago, Jimmer was ranked # 11 for National Player of the Year by SI.com. You can’t tell me with all of these statistics and all of the national recognitions, nominations, and rankings for The National Player of the Year, that Jimmer should not be atleast the co-best player in the MWC.
Jimmer didn’t even get the chance to play in the biggest conference game of the year against the Lobos because of a stomach virus. I, along with many other fans, believe that with Jimmer’s composure at the end of games, they could have pulled off that win and the Player of the Year would not have even been in question. Many voters feel like it should go to the winning team’s player and many people don’t agree with that. Sometimes it doesn’t even make any sense. The proof is in the stats and if you look at them carefully you will see that there is no comparison and had Jimmer stayed healthy.
With every coach gearing their defensive plan to stop Jimmer, no one was able to do it, as witnessed by the quotes of many of the MWC coaches themselves. Only MONONUCLEOSIS could stop Jimmer this year. Darington is a very good player and I am not trying to take anything away from this gifted young gentleman but he is no Jimmer.
Thank you for your valuable time.
Respectfully Yours,
Chris Shipley – NY