New BU VB coach, a faux-record, and more fraud among so-called "experts"!

Bradley hire new volleyball head coach...
http://www.bradleybraves.com//ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=205072300

I certainly wish her the best and I will always pull for Bradley, and she might be the very best candidate there was....but......
I will admit that I'm no volleyball expert..so I may be missing something here....if I am, someone let me know...

There's already a discussion going on the message board and so I am not going to be the first who will ask a question about this hire.

Obviously even Jenny Maurer thinks going from Lehigh to Bradley is a step up or she wouldn't have taken the job...
And so I am going to guess the competition gets tougher here than playing Army, Dartmouth, Colgate, etc...

But I just wondered what were Lehigh's records the past few years???
I know the program was bad when she took over, but here are Jenny's numbers.

FIRST -- note that Jenny, when she was hired at Lehigh in 2006, she was hired to coach at Lehigh having absolutely NO collegiate head coaching experience whatsoever...she had been head coach only at the high school level..and travel youth volleyball (U14's)

-This past season they were 13-13, 7-7 in conference, and only 4-5 at home
-Last year (2009-2010) they were 14-16, 7-8 in conference, and 6-5 at home
-08-09 -- they were 8-20, 3-11 in conference & 5-6 at home
-and in Jenny's first year there at Lehigh, 2007-2008, they were 5-22, 2-12 in conference, 3-5 at home.

So her four year record was...
13-13, 7-7, 4-5
14-16, 7-8, 6-5
8-20, 3-11, 5-6
5-22, 2-12, 3-5

Total -- 40-71 overall, 24-36 in their weak conference, and only 22-25 on their own home court....never a winning record (over .500).
These totals are not really all that much better than the three years that the prior coach had at BU.

So...I'm just a little puzzled......I kinda wonder who were the other applicants and candidates that were passed over?



Did you read about the kid from Lamar that broke a couple records, scoring 52 points and hitting bunch of 3-pointers?

Well -- let's at least put this into perspective....Lamar was playing a very, very weak opponents, a soft Division III team!
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Little-known-Lamar-guard-scores-52-points-off-th?urn=ncaab-303574

Hmmm...the kid took 35 shots, and was even still shooting right at the end of the game when Lamar had a 60-point blowout lead...

Good for him, but some records really ought to have an asterisk next to them...

In this case...- Lamar achieved a 40+ point lead with about 8 minutes remaining...
and in the final 8:12 of the game......guess how many shots Mike James attempted..
..SEVENTEEN.....so he literally launched HALF his shot attempts in the 8 minute span that his team held an insurmountable 40-62 point lead over a helplessly overmatched, sub-.500 D-III!

...and when he dunked in the final 30 seconds...he showboated, hung on the rim, got a technical and was finally yanked by his coach...

Also -- here's a couple quotes that kinda suggest this was an orchestrated effort to get the kid a record...

"It means a lot," said James..."I'll always be in the record books."
Roccaforte said he intended to leave James in the game long enough only to
get the record for 3-pointers but left him in a little longer when the point
record got within reach.

"What happened was they said what the school record was for 3s, so we
attempted to get him that," Roccaforte said. (the Lamar head coach)
...then they told me what the school record was and where he was
point-wise. That is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I felt we needed to take
advantage of that for him and for our team."

"That's why I was shooting so much at the end," James said.
"(Coach Roccaforte) told me to try and get the school record. Any open look,
I just took it."

The Cardinals (6-7) had a healthy lead when James began launching shots
from all areas of the court, almost as though he had a certain point total in
mind."
http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/lamar/article/James-scores-record-52-points-in-Lamar-men-s-937597.php



Well...here's proof that there's even MORE fraud at the top levels of "science"...
we've seen fraud in climate and global warming science, and lately there's been some pretty fraudulent claims made by NASA scientists and elsewhere......
http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/lamar/article/James-scores-record-52-points-in-Lamar-men-s-937597.php

The bottom line is that profit and money obviously influence almost ALL science and claims of new discoveries, way more than the actual truth does.
Again -- it's pretty much buyer beware when it comes to listening to the advice of experts...
Remember, those experts might just be greedy and on the take and totally dishonest, just like these medical researchers and climate scientists.

It leaves you wondering just who you can believe -- but as always, I will try to help you out... ;)



Lastly -- anyone see the blog entry where Kirk Wessler shows pictures of his "man-cave"?? I'm gonna have just a little fun with this.......
For a guy who claims to be a 4th generation lifelong Bradley fan, he sure doesn't have much stuff there that's BU stuff.....
Remember -- we're being told on a daily basis by some BU fans that Kirk is a HUGE BU fan!!
I have seen more Bradley memorabilia and stuff in ISU fans' basements... ;)