Latest news......just when you thought it couldn't any more interesting...

Make what you want of this...
Flash Flanagan's Fall Review was at Markin the past couple years, and has frequently been at Bradley, the Fieldhouse, etc..
This year it's elsewhere not even close to BU.....and Jeff Wilkins is paid to be a featured speaker........hmmmm.......
We once had a thread going about college coaches that find a way to funnel money via camps to the guys who provide the players.....sort of a way to technically and legally get by with funneling money from college coaches to recruits, AAU types and recruits' families ....

and it had to do with Bill Self and his staff....which just happened at that time to include...Kansas assistant coach Tim Jankovich...
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree........
check out the links.....
http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1473


Here's another example of one of the Valley schools hanging in among a top recruit's final choices...
Robert Goff was considering Indiana, and a few other biggie schools, but had taken a visit and had kept Wichita State in the mix right to the end.
He just verbaled to Oklahoma and is yet another loss for Indiana who desperately need depth and experience in the post.
http://blogs.heraldtimesonline.com/iusp/?p=9832

Bradley has likewise battled the big schools for kids like Jershon Cobb, Nick Fruendt, Drew Crawford (Northwestern), Matt Roth (Indiana), Iman Shumpert (Georgia Tech), (LA Pomlee (Iowa State), Stan Simpson (Illinois), Wesley Witherspoon (Memphis), etc...
and ISU hung in with BJ Young...a 5-Star recruit...
http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=16278

BTW -- Here's a funny story involving ex-Bradley recruit Wesley Witherspoon...
http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/15455/josh-pastner-tossed-into-a-swimming-pool

One MVC recruit, Tyrus McGee, that Creighton is strong after -- just verballed to Iowa State.



More and more trouble for the new Oregon coach Dana Altman -- wonder if he's trying to find a way to get his old job back??
Probably now realizes now that even coaching P'Allen Stinnet wasn't really even all that bad!!
http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindducksbeat/2010/09/oregon_basketball_investigatio.html

It's obvious there's still a whole lot more to this story and more bad stuff yet to be revealed...
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/sports/25305204-41/dunigan-oregon-former-andrews-players.csp



Alvin Brooks III has redesigned his web site and has a blog...nice..
http://www.alvinbrooks.com/blog2.html
http://www.alvinbrooks.com/main2.html



Did you know???
The name "Lynyrd Skynyrd" actually has a basketball connotation??
http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-09-20/story/leonard-skinner-lynyrd-skynyrd-namesake-dies-77-0


More details daily on the Bruce Pearl cheating scandal....
-- many now calling for Pearl to quit..and with these newest revelations it seems everyone who's been working under Pearl has also been cheating like crazy -- giving impermissible benefits to recruits and their families and making illegal phone calls....

http://espn.go.com/photo/2010/0920/ut_ncbviolation.pdf
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5597589
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/More-details-uncovered-Pearl-s-staff-made-more-;_ylt=Apzz8WSUbHfioZdy219AjPPevbYF?urn=ncaab-271100

...and to think, back when he was at D-II Southern Indiana, and UWM thru 2005, there was occasionally talk of some Valley team nabbing him for head coach...
Wonder if he'd have cheated just as much if he were in the Valley??
Should the NCAA go back and see if his cheating was going on as far back as when his UW-M guys made the Sweet 16...some of us have evidence and know that it was...
Remember -- when Joah Tucker bolted from Bradley then admitted he went to UW-M and worked out with their teammebers and arranged with Bruce Pearl to transfer to UW-M -- all this occurring while he was still under scholsrship at BU? Recall that this was why BU claimed tampering by Pearl?? Doesn't it just seem obvious now that this cheater would have done exactly that?? He and his whole staff were cheaters then -- and he and his whole staff is still cheating now...

Here's where Bruce Pearl seems ever unwilling to own up to the truth...everyone knows it was HE and he alone that lied to Tennessee officials and to the NCAA, yet he still answers questions saying it was "we" who lied...
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2010/09/bruce-pearl-i-hope-that-the-things-we-did-dont-rise-to-the-level-of-termination/1

Bruce Pearl and Reggie Bush are the same in one respect...
both showed remorse and apologized....years after their violations, and ONLY when the evidence was overwhelming, and only when the guillotine was gonna fall anyway...
Neither has really fessed up to their cheating and neither has really come clean -- they did what they did to save their own skins -- not the do the right thing.



Yet another 5-Star kid verbals to Kentucky...just give 'em the title now, right??
http://dimemag.com/2010/04/breaking-news-doron-lamb-headed-to-kentucky/#more-40586



This is football related - but it's weird---
SIU is #5 ranked nationally and loses at home (first home non-conference loss in 8 years) to lowly SEMO!! The Salukis now fall to 1-2 in the early goings (only win was vs. sacrificial opening opponent Quincy) and definitely appear to be having a far worse year than their preseason hi rankings would have suggested.
But -- I guess the Saluki fans did need something to draw some of their frustrations away from the disaster that their basketball program has become...
Now they have two different forums melting down - basketball and football...
http://www.duquoin.com/sports/x1985978739/FOOTBALL-SEMO-surprises-SIU?img=1



One more funny football story -- speaks for itself...
That's the Ohio Bobcat going after him in an unprovoked attack!!
http://bucknuts.com/index.php/Football-Article/what-is-rufus-bobcat-thinking/menu-id-1346.html



Talking football - don't look now but despite the sanctions USC football is 3-0 and has beaten 3 fairly tough opponents...two of them on the road...



Negative campaigning 101 -- hit 'em where it hurts!!
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42427.html

And I suspect this candidate isn't too worried that she just lost the majority of the Wiccan vote...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/20/wiccan-community-upset-wi_n_731694.html
http://abcnews.go.com/US/witch-christine-odonnells-dabble-witchcraft-bizarre/story?id=11682730

Did you know the recession is over??
We still have 10% unemployment and nobody is hiring...investments are stagnant and there's incredible uncertainty about the future, the wars, the deficit, and debt...
I bet these guys will end up eating their words...
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-recession-over-20100921,0,2428295.story