(01-24-2012 10:08 PM)NIU05 Wrote:  We should not lose this type athlete. Has a chance of getting drafted in baseball. Looks really solid. We offer an IL athlete, win bowl games, the MAC and have a successful program that graduates players and we lose this type athlete to EMU? We should NOT lose high level MAC players in our own backyard.

I wouldn't call Sparta, IL the backyard. It's probably 5.5 hours from DeKalb, and kids down there aren't going to have any sort of loyalty to NIU. I think NIU also offered late, which may have played a factor, as might the depth charts at EMU/NIU. He can probably get on the field quicker at EMU than he can in DeKalb.