A Few News Items

A member of Bradley's NCAA and NIT teams of the late 40's and of the team that finished 2nd in 1950 has passed....Don Schnake. He became a coaching legend in the Chicago area...
Once a Brave...
http://football.dailyherald.com/story/?id=389007



Bradley ranks 6th in the entire midwest among all Masters Level Universities in this latest 2010 US News & World Report ranking..
http://rankings.usnews.com/best-colleges/masters-universities-midwest-rankings

Creighton & Drake are also ranked in the Top 10...and in this same ranking SIUE is #47, WIU is #62, and NIU is off the rankings and called a Tier 4....they don't rank the ones that low...
ISU is listed among a different category...but outside the Top 128 and called a Tier 3...
http://rankings.usnews.com/best-colleges/masters-universities-midwest-rankings
http://rankings.usnews.com/best-colleges/masters-universities-midwest-rankings/title+illinois



Some nice press for one of the top kids BU is after in the Class of 2011 - Julian High School's Phillip Greene - teammate this past year of Walter Lemon.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/hoopsreport/



There was some talk of ISU assistant Paris Parham being a candidate for the head coach spot at Chicago State...and a column just this past week by ESPN said the new coach would be announced soon - and named Friday -- but Friday came and went and still no announcement.
http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/colleges/post/_/id/553/chicago-state-coaching-search-will-end-shortly

Why is it so hard for Chicago State to get a program going in the right direction, to even get a coach who wants to be there?
The answer is a little bit behind the headlines.

The place is filled with corruption. The people in the Mid-Con Conference knew it and booted them out.
And there have been a few exposes but for some reason it's as if nobody wants to say much about it....it appears to be a politically hot topic, but here's the truth...

Just read a few of these articles and see if things just sound way too fishy for you..
The state funneling tons of $$ ($40 million!!) to Chicago State for no clear reason -- looks like some kind of payoff to me!
They have a 16% graduation rate and are dead last in the NCAA data...so who's in charge of letting people into that university?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/college/chi-chicago-state-31-aug31,0,7740389.story
The last president they had was corrupt and was stealing from the school and the state despite her lofty salary!
http://senategop.state.il.us/index.php?Itemid=123&id=363&option=com_content&task=view
After she was booted, she still spent 418000 on a party for herself..
http://www.cdobs.com/archive/local-media/taxpayer-funded-tribute-to-elnora-daniel/

the new guy they picked is tied to corruption and is not well liked by anyone..
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/04/boos-greet-choice-of-new-chicago-state-leader.html

Even more corruption and scandal there....I guess you can now get the picture...
http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2009/08/scandal-at-chicago-state-university.htm
http://www.examiner.com/x-3865-Chicago-Public-Education-Examiner~y2009m4d13-White-flight-Black-Phonies-and-Chicago-State-University



One of the departing Iowa State kids - a kid that was at one time a top, 4-Star PF, LaRon Dendy, has landed at Middle Tennessee. What kind of statement is this for Iowa State basketball, that their starting power forward leaves and transfers to Middle Tennessee...and on top of that their coach describes Dendy and a "probable go-to guy"!! What -- didn't anyone else want the guy -- not even Chris Lowery??
Iowa State's Chris Colvin is rumored to be going to Kansas State.



Anyone watching the World Cup - and did you note that the refs give Italy and Brazil all the calls....
..they totally ignore the hand balls, and in the Italy game, they saves Italy's skin by awarding a penalty shot on a foul call on a play that wasn't one tenth of the fouling that the Americans were hammered with in the Slovenia game and yet it was the Americans who got the goal taken away.
If the FIFA people ever want their game to become popular in the US and if they want the next generation to appreciate it - then they should clean up the cheating and bad calls.