Mar 28 2025 80 mins 3
As of the 2 p.m. Friday publishing of this show, Sioux Falls Live has not reported on what extent SDSU coach Eric Henderson has talked with Drake University in Des Moines about its head coach opening.
But if there is mutual interest, we found a sneaky yet high-level reason why Drake would be a big step up from coaching at SDSU, a step that goes beyond potential significant salary increase for Hendo.
Meanwhile, a rare if not shocking SDSU women's hoops development — junior guard Haleigh Timmer (Rapid City native) has entered the transfer portal. We don't officially know why, but it puts a crack in the notion that the Jackrabbit women are immune to players transferring out.
Did Northern State hit a home run in hiring former Dakota Wesleyan coach Matt Wilber?
John Gaskins addresses all these topics, then sits down with veteran state champion high school coach Mike Schouten for over 50 minutes.
In a state tournament run straight out of Hollywood, the Sioux Falls Christian boys basketball lost one of their best players to a brutal knee injury late in the first round game, were devastated and needed a pick-me-up idea from Schouten to lift their spirits before the semifinal game, then captured a state title the next night to redeem back-to-back heartbreaking state championship game losses.
Schouten has led the Chargers for 19 years and pushed all kinds of buttons to get SFC over the finish line, and details some compelling behind-the-scenes stories from those three emotional nights.
Plus, there's plenty about SDSU commit Griffin Goodbary, who could very well be an immediate impact college player, and Schouten tells us why. There's also another potential Div. I dynamo who SFC gets for another two years that Schouten — not one to use hyperbole — raves about.
Then, there's the not-so-subtle topic of SFC's dominance in Class A the last few years and the notion that maybe the school should move up to Class AA. Schouten certainly has his own insight and opinion.
