Recruiting Report: David Gulley (2018)
Lot of changes this summer for 5’10”-5’11” point guard David Gulley (2018).
He’s grown a couple inches. He’s transferred from Solon to Lutheran East, the defending Division IV State Champions, which brings high expectations. He’s also going to play a much different role this year.
“I’ve been working on transitioning to, like, a true point guard this offseason ... At Solon, I was playing off ball and scoring a lot. But, colleges want to see me at the point. So Lutheran East gave me the opportunity and I just made the transfer,” Gulley said.
During this offseason, Gulley has been diligently working on the point guard craft. But he is confident that he’ll excel with The Lue, given his experience during summers passed.
“I’ve always played [point guard] in AAU. It’s just in high school ball, I just played like a scoring wing,” Gulley said.
The new point guard at Lutheran East doubles as one of the best three-point shooters in Ohio.
“I still feel pretty confident that I can score the ball really well, because I’ve been doing it for so long. I don’t think that will be much of a problem,” Gulley said.
Tracking how Gulley functions as a point guard, given his game-changing scoring ability, could impact his recruitment in a major way as a senior. At the moment, he has two scholarship offers, but other programs are interested too.
“I just got two D-II offers from Charleston and Daemen University,” Gulley said. (To clarify, Gulley misspoke here, as Daemen is an NAIA program.)
Both programs offered in the past few months.
“Daemen had came up [last] Friday. Friday evening actually, and we had open gym. They want me to come up there for a visit in a couple of weeks ... The head coach, coach [Mike MacDonald] actually saw me play in a summer league game against Garfield and I had a lot of points — I had like 40. He offered me right on the spot. That was his first time seeing me play,” Gulley said.
Gulley doesn’t have anything scheduled as far as a visit to Daemen currently, but he has already been to Charleston’s campus in West Virginia.
“I went up to Charleston already, back when they offered me in the beginning of August. We had went up there August 5th for an elite camp, me and Jordan [Burge],” Gulley said.
Gulley said that he will “always keep [his] options open” but that he won’t take these two programs “for granted.”
In addition to the two offers, Gulley has some other interest from an in-state D-II.
“I was talking to Ashland not too long ago. They said they were going to come check me out during the season,” Gulley said.
At the end of the day, what is Gulley, 3.2 GPA student-athlete with a 21 ACT score, looking for in a college?
“Just a program that really expresses how much they want me and want me to play at their program really.”
