Case closed -- Coach Les is not responsible for anyone's woes - and more...

So Jim Les finally gets a word..but not in the press as nobody actually seems to have asked for his opinion on the Stowell thing..but he gives us a tweet saying that he was absolutely NOT involved in any way in making any "decisions about committees or radio broadcasts" and he even noted he was unfairly being given heat over something he had nothing to do with!!!

So -- that should settle it -- I only wish the local media had gone for the truth instead of unfair attacks based purely on speculation from someone using their agenda to lay the "heat" unfairly on Coach Les who was completely innocent in all this and now fully exonerated.......

I think a few people owe Coach Les an apology...

But now this....
The local media is making news stories out of tweets!! So I guess that elevates a tweet to the same standard of reliability as any other news story!
http://blogs.pjstar.com/pressrow/2010/09/29/les-response-on-stowell-news/



But .......... people have a right to their opinions on this subject without being falsely called out for not being "consistent".
I kinda see "being consistent" as someone who is not guided by the facts of the situation, but instead always making the same decision because of predetermined, rigid bias...
In other words, the very people calling for "consistency" and claiming they ARE consistent while others are not, are the ones rules by their rigid biases and predetermined grudges.
Sure they might be "consistent" but it is clear they are consistently negative and anti-Bradley in every call they make!

Show me someone who is predictably consistent in every statement or decision and I'll show you someone who is so biased and rigid in their one-sided view of everything, that you know what they'd say even before they say it...
here's a few examples of consistently opinionated people...

You know this guy's views before he speaks -- he's consistent
http://www.vimooz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad.jpg

This guy's not only always consistent - he's even consistent with his father's rigidly biased views
http://www.weirdasianews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/KimJongIl-Fashion-Icon.jpg

Another guy that you always know how his consistent opinion will sound...
http://www.armyrecognition.com/images/stories/news/2008/september/Hugo_Chavez_Venezuela_President_001.jpg



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Another player has gotten a waiver to play an extra year and be immediately eligible...at UIC...

Some will recognize the name...Paul Carter (6-8 forward)
... he's a kid whose dad played in the NBA, he finished high school in Arkansas in 2006, then first went to Connors State (junior college).
He then transferred mid-year to Missouri State-West Plains in 2006-2007, but did not get a release from Connors, so had to sit out and pay his own way...but during the remaining part of 2006-2007, he was there the same time David Collins was a sophomore at Missouri State-WP and played and practiced with David but was ineligible for games until 2007-2008.

Carter, after sitting out the rest of 2006-2007, then played his first year of junior college ball in 2007-2008 averaging 9.4 ppg.
Then he spent 2 years at Minnesota under Tubby Smith, averaging 6 ppg.

This season, Tubby was not going to renew his scholarship, so Carter found another place to play, and received the waiver to be eligible immediately at UIC......
New coach Howard Moore only has 3 other forwards on the entire team -- only one of whom has ever played college ball -- and he's only a 4 ppg scorer...so Carter has an excellent chance for some playing time......
http://www.uicflames.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/092810aaa.html



UNLV is ISU's Mountain West/MVC Challenge opponent...and one of the UNLV players has gotten a bit few headlines lately -- although given the seriousness of his crimes, I gotta think he'd have gotten 100 times more press had he been a Bradley Brave......
After originally being charged with numerous felony charges, UNLV's Tre'Von Willis plead guilty to a reduced misdemeanor charge in his domestic battery case......

His penalty served by the UNLV Athletic Dept. and head coach Lon Kruger...
is a "three game suspension"....after Lon said simply that Willis ....
"made a mistake"....

But it's not really 3 games -- it is actually only ONE GAME .....UNLV is saying Willis will sit out for their TWO exhibition games, and also the first regular season game vs. UC-Riverside..

In other words...he will miss one cupcake regular season game ....
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5627231

I know a Valley player who plead guilty to an even FAR lesser charges, took supervision then had his guilty plea removed from the record,
and his record cleared...yet he was hammered far more severely - and I don't recall anyone ever trivializing the crime as a "mistake".



Rumor that Bruce Pearl has put his $12 million home on the market and trying to unload the gas guzzler ---
this coming after he's taking a pay cut for all his cheating and lying...
Must be hard when your salary drops from $2.5 million all the way down to $2.2 million per year -- he just can't make ends meet and will probably have to move into public housing.........
http://www.volnation.com/forum/tennessee-vols-basketball/110967-pearls-house-up-sale.html

Here's a good laugh for the day.......
Bruce talks NCAA compliance - and other coaches & media folks crack up in laughter!!
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/luke_winn/09/20/tennessee.pearl/index.html



And for those who claim Bradley gets more and better (favorable) press than any other school its size....that's so absurd that I just don't have the time to even waste on refuting it...
Just click the sports page at Omaha.com (The Omaha World Herald) and see how many stories and blog entries are posted every single day on Creighton sports...ALL positive and fair, none are hit pieces and allegations, rumors, innuendo...

And even tiny non-D-I Illinois Wesleyan gets far more daily coverage in the Bloomington paper than anything BU-related gets in Peoria. And none of it is attack-style...
Just do the digging yourself and see.....just about the only Peoria press BU gets is negative and attack-style, or else it's a simple repost of a BU release about schedules or ticket prices. Or as seen here, it's a repost of a tweet...
http://blogs.pjstar.com/pressrow/2010/09/29/les-response-on-stowell-news/


As was pointed out elsewhere -- Peoria even gives Illinois and ICC more coverage and more fair & better coverage than BU gets. If you don't see the anti-BU slant that's CONSISTENT, then you are choosing not to -- but considering the people who claim they don't see it -- it's understandable.



And I have to snicker -- if it wasn't so funny, I'd feel stalked/violated !!!
....even a person's avatar is suspected to have some kind of subtle, occult meaning....when in realty it's just a random picture......