Is this blog dead?

The answer is, kind of... I'm not planning on taking it down but I am also not planning on posting regularly on here anymore. Blogging was a great experience for me and I think it helped our program and our kids.

I have been spending most of my free Internet time working on my new project, www.midwestbasketballonline.com (our first combine is this Saturday at Henry Sibley, 9:00AM-2:00 PM, drop in and get tested!)

This doesn't mean you won't be able to follow Sibley basketball happenings on the Interweb anymore! I will be "Co-Tweeting" with our JV coach Jeremy Christiansen (his idea, he set it up, anything particularly witty or insightful probably came from him.) Start following us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/SibleyHoops If you don't have a Twitter account you need to get one, just don't blame me for the addiction!

A big thank you to everyone who read and/or supported this blog!

MBA League Update

This past weekend we played in our second round of MBA games. The results were the same (lost both) but our effort was much different. We were without arguably 4 of our top 7 guys. Jimmy Ryan, Dante Grant, and Bobby Wills are all football guys, and Jake Kreuser had a minor injury.

To play a good team like Champlin Park very close, with all of our young guys, was very encouraging.

Next up for us is the Minnetonka fall league. It starts on October 25th, most of the good teams around the metro are in the league making it a great warm-up for the season.

Midwest Basketball Online

Today is the official launch of a new basketball venture for me. It is the culmination of an idea that I had last spring. I was inspired by a couple of current and former players of mine as I was thinking of ways to market them to college coaches at all levels.

Press release below:
New Combine style recruiting website for boys and girls basketball launches

www.midwestbasketballonline.com

Unlike some of the nationally based recruiting websites, we take a regional, hands-on approach. We are focused on Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota. We do not try to be everything to everybody. Our focus is boys and girls basketball, that’s it.

We will be hosting regional basketball combine events in each of these states. At each of these events, measurements and physical testing will take place. We will measure height, weight, wingspan, and standing reach. We will also test vertical leap, short area agility, and ¾ court sprints. We borrow many of our tests from the NBA pre-draft combine.

Players can create profiles with full contact information, verified physical test scores, video comments on profiles, and video highlights. College coaches will be contacted personally, not just in email blasts. It is a one-stop shop for recruiting information and a valuable time saving tool for college coaches.

We connect with college basketball coaches at all levels from Junior College all the way to high major Division I. This site is for everyone interested in playing collegiate basketball at any level, not just the top 150 kids in the country.

Please take some time to check the site out. Tell your friends!

MBA Fall League 9/19

I'm not positive but I think it has been 5 years since we have gone 0-3 in a fall league day. We played very poorly today. We missed some of our key football guys but that should not effect the effort of the guys that did play.

Majerus

Head coach of Saint Louis, Rick Majerus stopped by our gym yesterday to watch our 7 footer Jake Kreuser work out. He was a very fun guy to talk to. It is easy to see why he was so good as a TV commentator and why he is able to recruit so well. He has only been at Saint Louis for 2 years, I expect that he will turn that program around soon. A friends brother (Nick Jacobson) played for Coach Majerus at Utah and loved him.

I believe Jake will be taking an official visit there in October.