Update - various topics...

Another BIG, exclusive, and incredibly well attended Bradley function tonight....with ALL players fully in attendance, and all in good standing......
Will even tweeted about the event...and had a super great time...
http://twitter.com/willFREEMAN21/status/22477141188


BTW -- in case you haven't heard it before...the new arena is awesome and now that it's been seen by a lot of people, it's being widely proclaimed as on par with the on-campus facilities of most every school outside the BCS...and some even inside the BCS!!
Oh -- and if you are going to catch all the BU basketball games this year, you'd better get a little familiar with the new parking deck and traffic patterns up there....if you know what I mean...
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=189826#post189826


DePaul is taking a page from the same playbook - and moving one of their games (vs. Ball State) to their very small on-campus arena.


Speaking of tweets, keep up on some of the instant BU news via twitter right here...
http://twitter.com/xb7


Check this out -- the folks at Bradley are working hard to be sure there's NO SHORTAGE of various events that can show off the new arena and all the players...get in on some of thse events..and more to be added!!!
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=16198


SIU just got a verbal for fall of 2011...Rivals has Dantiel Daniels ranked as a 2-Star, he is a 6-5 post player...sort of a smaller version of Randall Falker...
But is 6-5 big enough to get it done in the Valley?
http://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1119161

Creighton just got a verbal from 6-11 center from Texas...
Geoff Groselle, an unheralded, skinny center that has been billed as 6-9 then all of a sudden jumps to 6-11...is rated as 2-Star by scout.com...
Groselle is a virtual carbon copy and mirror image of the centerpiece of their 2010 recruiting class, Will Artino -- who is already being discussed as a redshirt candidate...
http://scouthoops.scout.com/a.z?s=75&p=9&c=2&cid=996776&nid=4310123&fhn=1
http://www.omaha.com/article/20100829/BLUEJAYS/100829659
http://scouthoops.scout.com/a.z?s=75&p=8&c=1&nid=4373545

ISU working on their 2011-2012 schedule -- and likely they already have Savannah State and Grambling all locked up, but they are trying to get into the Cancun Tournament...and Jank reiterates that he simply does not want to ever go on the orad and play any tough games....read his own words..
http://www.pantagraph.com/sports/college/illinois-state/article_4c62f556-b23a-11df-a4f1-001cc4c03286.html

But note the highlight of that article...
"This is the third straight year that ISU does not have a BCS team on its regular season schedule"
.....duh.....like this isn't by design??


Terry Carroll, the junior college head coach at Southeast Iowa Community College (junior college) who stabbed Bradley in the back by shopping John Wilkins and his girlfriend as a package deal to numerous schools -- is reportedly one of the top choices for the final assistant spot at Iowa State...he is an Ames, IA native...


Chattanooga, Belmont, Arkansas State, MTSU, Oakland, Charlotte, Belmont, Tennessee-Martin, College of Charleston, etc....
sounds like maybe ISU's schedule, right???...or maybe the schedule of a pretty mediocre mid-major, right??
Nope this is Bruce Pearl's masterpiece schedule designed just for the purpose of helping his guys get 20 wins in a projected down year...and the Tennessee fans are duly unimpressed with those no-name opponents coming into Knoxville, TN!!


With all the mess at Kansas and the crimes and scandals.....with all the ticket scandal, tickets stolen and sold on the black market, blackmail, riots on campus and players getting DUI's...
here's how the athletic department at Kansas keeps the local police in Lawrence, Kansas off their back....
seriously....can you even believe this...
The University of Kansas Athletic Department has hired away the Lawrence police chief from his civic job and given him a hefty salary as
"director of security for the University of Kansas athletics department"

It's a totally newly, arbitrarily created position and it kinda comes at a convenient time to get the cops off their backs, doesn't it??
You really don't need to ever read the Sunday morning funnies to get laughs, just read the latest news about Bill Self & Kansas!!!
http://www.kansas.com/2010/08/29/1468761/lawrence-police-chief-to-work.html


Wow-- for you soccer fans, here's a real shocker ---
Saint Louis -- perennially one of the top D-I soccer programs scheduled SIUE as a softie early season opponent...
They played badly and were lucky to escape with a 0-0 tie!!
After 3 early season warm=ups against cupcakes in the soccer world....so far this season, SLU has yet to win a game and has only scored ONE goal!!


Then there's this...Paris Hilton arrested on a drug charge...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/arts/30arts-PARISHILTONA_BRF.html
...and in other news.....the sun came up this morning and the government is considering new taxes....


Lastly a very sad thing...
the brother of Illinois recruit Mycheal Henry was shot and killed in apparent stupid, random violence...
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=189813#post189813