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[LukeFeddersen]

Add any others as well:

Congrats to Webster City senior Mason Myers, who signed to play basketball at Morningside.

 

[LukeFeddersen]

Congratulations to Tyler Stumbo for signing w/ DordtCollege today!

 

[VanderHoops]

Originally posted by LukeFeddersen:
Congratulations to Tyler Stumbo for signing w/ DordtCollege today!

Will be a nice bookend with Ross Cooper from A-P!

Stumbo's a nice player that didn't get a lot of attention since Okoboji didn't advance in post-season play.

Other Iowa preps going to Dordt: Justin Schmit (Boyden-Hull), Alec Hendrickson (Spirit Lake), & Jake Lewis (Glenwood).

I don't make it to a lot of college games, but will like following these local kids at the next level.

 

[sarcastico]

As a Dordt alum I have to say I am really happy with the work Coach Douma is doing there. He has really opened up the recruiting doors and got some kids from outside of the typical Christian feeder schools. He seems to be doing a good job of getting kids from the local public schools. Something that didn't happen when I was going there. I am looking forward to seeing how this class turns out.

 

[WhiteShadowHoops]

I think threads like these are great for kids to see. Tyler Stumbo was a darn good high school basketball player with size and athleticism and he ended up at Dordt. I think this is a good reality check for kids who think they are better than they really. All these 6'0 guards out there need to ask themselves, am I even better than a Tyler Stumbo? Being that Stumbo is taller than I am, what would I bring to a college that he doesn't. Too many high school ballplayers overrate their value or are hearing their value being overrated by people around them. Use a kid like Tyler Stumbo as a measuring stick. Most high school ballplayers could not say honestly that they are better than a kid like that.

 

[ghost80]

Often the athletes as well as their parent are overencouraged by college recruiters looking to get paying students into their classrooms more so than athletes on their squads.

The bar has never been set lower to be a "college athlete" as athletics has become a tool for most small colleges to try to get enough students through the door to survive.

Often parents have a more realistic view of the capabilities of their kid but it becomes skewed when a recruiter shows up telling the student athlete what he wants to hear.

 

[cidhawkeye]

I have heard coaches talk about that quite a bit. In football it changes about a week in when the pads go on and reality sets in.

 

[WhiteShadowHoops]

Thats part of it. NAIA schools give out 500 bucks to pay for books and make the kid feel like they got a scholarship. Also, a lot of the NAIA schools around have like 40+ kids on their roster, of which most freshman are on the JV squad with little to no chance of ever going beyond that.