LancasterOnline.com:Local Sports:He's created a real monster
Mike Gross, asssistant sports editor
Long article.
Dakota is the hottest college recruit in Manheim Central football history, and that covers some ground. He was first-team all-state at defensive end last season, as a junior. Most of the recruiting services consider him comfortably within the top 100 college prospects in the high school class of 2010. He's 6-3, 215 pounds of muscle, runs a 4.640 and has a 37-inch vertical leap, or a four-foot vertical leap straight out of a swimming pool ...
Jarron Gilbert of Da Bears made swimming pool leap famous by jumping up to the side of the pool when standing in 3 feet of water. Royer does the same think in 4 feet of water. The YouTube link is at the article link.
According to his coach Mike Williams:
He became a complete player"He put some numbers up there for college coaches to notice." ... It's his speed on defense, the way he rushes the passer off the edge. He's a competitor; he wants to be the best, and he's got that motor going all the time.
Royer has "branded" himself, making his own highlight DVDs (plural) and competing at combines since he was a freshman.
I still remember sitting at home, waiting for that first letter [from a college]. Now I get 20 letters a day.
It's getting old:
You do get tired of it. It's so stressful.
Shortlist still PSU PIT ND MSU and ORE with a choice to be made next month.
No official visits!
- Penn State
I've been there a bunch of times. It's close to home. It's familiar.
- Pitt
It's pretty cool that the Steelers are right there. Their weight room is right across the hallway from [Pitt's].
- Notre Dame
It's the best, nicest campus I've ever seen.
- Michigan State
It's almost like its own city. Everybody's got their motor scooters or bikes. It's really a nice place.
- Oregon
When you watch them play, it looks like it would be awesome to play there. Every player has a plasma-screen TV in his locker.
He also like ORE's connection to NIKE and the wardrobe of unis.
Royer transferred high schools in Lancaster, PA to be in an agricultural program something he's like to pursue in college.
When they're (the other students) taking an elective like music, I'm taking an ag class.
Interesting but puzzling course of study, an obvious marketing major but likes the ag field. I'm not familar with all the fields of study at each school but MSU strikes me as the closest to an Ag college of this bunch. Wasn't that there origin? I had a friend go to MSU on a football scholarship years ago and he left after one year complaining "it was too cold and the students were all football players or heifers". I should think the Mendoza School of Business would prepare him well for a future with Archer Midland Daniels where he could blend his obvious talent with his interest. Read an article the past day or two that joePA is waxing Wannie's stache in recruiting. I'll pick them as #1 with, the outlier, ORE (plasmas, unis, and greenfields) as the wildcard. Strictly reading online tea leaves.
