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If I was Valpo I would have been hard pressed to believe anything a member of the Diebler family would say. That is perhaps hard on Jon as his dad is mostly pulling the strings. He probably told Jon to verbal so his brother could get the scholarship. Many people in Fostoria (I am told) feel the father mislead the community. Right after Fostoria was upset in the state tourney last year, Diebler who was the coach stated that he was excited about the prospects for next year and would be in Fostoria a long time. Rumor has it that less than a month later Diebler the dad (I forget his first name) started shopping around for a team that he could take over that had great potential to go all the way. Enter Upper Sandusky and the rest is history.
It is disturbing that there is talk that Jon may transfer to Williard. I also heard St. John's is a possibility according to a radio report during the pregame before the state championship game.
At some point your word has to mean something and the talk of transferring in or out of a school system at the high school level in order to win championships I believe is wrong. Of course this a macrocosm of today's society of doing anything to win.
Valpo is wrong to expect Jon to verbal if they are going to take his brother. Either Jacob is good enough to play at Valpo or he is not. I believe he is and has the competitive fire necessary to compete at that level. Jon on the other hand is most assuredly a D-1 player. I know this deal making is done at other D-1 schools, but it doesn't make it right. My hope is that Jon goes to a school of his choice and goes on to progress as a basketball player and as an upstanding human being. Good Luck to you Jon.
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