Kyle's father, Dr. Robert Lindsted, who founded and currently heads Sunrise Christian, sounds like a real crackpot, as evidenced by this quote from a 1991 newspaper article in which the good doctor at a Biblical Prophesy Conference predicts the imminent end of the world:
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I really think the Lord is coming tonight," Robert Lindsted, one of the nation's leading "prophetic observers," told the assembled on the first evening of the three-day gathering. "I'm waiting for the sound of the trumpet.
http://articles.philly.com/1991-11-05/n ... hal-eventsAs for his son Coach Kyle, it looks to me like he's influencing some of his high school senior players to break their college commitments, which seems problematic to me. Smart is one. Another is C.J. Keyser, who recently announced that he is not going to honor his Letter of Intent with Colorado State and instead will, like Smart, go to prep school for a year, either at Sunrise or Brewster Academy. Now I suspect Wichita State may be the intended beneficiary of these "flips", but it could also be that Kyle doesn't care where these players ultimately land, and that his motive is to benefit the Sunrise prep program by keeping these players around for a second year. My question is how much is Lindsted motivated by the best interests of the players versus how much is he motivated by self-interest. The fact that he parlayed his success at Sunrise into an assistant coaching gig at WSU suggests to me that Lindsted is not without personal ambition, and might be willing to exploit his players to achieve it.
So I hope you'll forgive me if I don't hold the Lindsteds or Sunrise Christian Academy in such high esteem as you appear to.
As for my predictions, two have already come true: Smart has reclassified to 2016, and he will spend a second year at Sunrise as a post grad in their prep school. My third prediction, that he will sign with Wichita State, has yet to come to pass, but I believe it has a better chance of coming true than one of Dr. Lindsted's doomsday prophesies.