Bradley loses to UNI as the Panthers shoot well from the arc...

No denying, Bradley has lost a lot of games we should have won...but I am convinced the Braves still have the talent to win some games in St. Louis.
Last night was an unfortunate mix of UNI being very hot from outside and Bradley not adjusting to cover those guys better. Seriously -- not a whole lot of those shots were wide open shots, all were guarded, even though when they're making them -- you obviously have no other choice but to guard better.

But -- let me propose a theoretical argument........

Let's say I am a demanding Creighton fan and I use the same kind of demanding argument that demanding Bradley fans use...

Here's what I might say........

"Hey -- wait a minute....how come Creighton is doing so bad! Didn't we start the season getting rid of the dead weight. And didn't we have the preseason Valley Player of the Year coming back for his senior season? And add to that -- we have the best freshman, a solid group of experienced players, the best incoming transfer who was picked to be the Newcomer of the Year? And we have a tradition of being the Valley team with the most top 1 or 2 finishes this past decade, and we've gone to the post-season the most....?

Then how come Creighton is mired in the middle of the pack, battling Evansville for 5th & 6th -- with little or no hope of any post-season chances, and RPI of about 150 and a SOS of worse than 150?"

Don't you see, any year in the Valley -- if I wanted to mull and grumble -- it hardly matters which team I support -- I guess I could find something to gripe about.
Even UNI lost a bunch in a row and has played themselves out of all but maybe a high-seeded NIT bid...

So it comes as no surprise, that even though Bradley has had more injuries and player losses than any other Valley team -- some people are still unhappy....
but many of them are the ones who were unhappy in 2002 and wanted change then and got what they wanted.
They wanted to fire JL back in 2006 and 2007 also -- I can clearly identify many of those currently unhappy as the same ones who wanted to go a different direction in Feb. of 2006 -- just before BU turned it around and ended in the Sweet Sixteen.

So it's the same old stuff........and I expect they may get what they want again if they whine loud and long enough...they'll get what they want again and still be griping in a few years.
Go look at the ISU fans -- same thing....they griped loud enough to get rid of Porter Moser -- then were giddy a few years when Jank won with all of Porter's players but they weren't too happy with the scheduling and being bounced repeatedly in the 1st round of the NIT's...now they are just as discontent as the Bradley fans....less than three years into getting their wish, now they want to bail and start over as well.

Doesn't surprise me...people are fickle....in fact as I was watching the Mississippi State - Kentucky game last night in the Club room at halftime -- I heard a fan of Kentucky's grumbling....
SERIOUSLY !!! We're talking University of freaking Kentucky here...the guy was saying he was already getting a little ticked of this whole scene...
I asked what scene was he talking about since his school paid the most money ever spent to get the most sought after recruiter and coach there has ever been...and they have landed more 5-Star, BLUE CHIPPERS and McDonald's All Americans that have ever been landed anywhere by anyone in such a short span...plus they get endless press, publicity, and hype & TV exposure....so what was this Kentucky fan griping about??

He said that the very best teams like Duke this year, or Wichita State in the Valley are made up of NOT JUST great young kids and top freshmen...they also have some of their best players stay FOUR years and get the experience and confidence needed to win the big games.

Yup that's right...he was already unhappy with the John Calipari way of bringing NBA caliber talent that stays only one year, gives them a good team but NOT a great team and he's quite sure it is going to happen again this year....
(at this point Mississippi State was rallying and looked to be possibly going to upset Kentucky, although UK ended up holding on and winning).

So I am convinced it doesn't matter -- people are going to gripe when you lose but they even gripe when you win....
No team -- and certainly not Bradley could ever land enough NBA caliber kids or win enough to ever expect to keep the gripes and the misery off the message boards.
So I am consigned to expecting it and just won't bother to read it any more.

Bradley has great kids, some tremendous talent set to return from injury/illness next year, and some great young talent coming in. I am hopeful we can get to see that talent this time around as we never got to see the NBA caliber talent the prior coach brought in because that coach got run out by the whiners who now even seem to regret that Mo was run out. Paradox....


Check out this example of same....just a few short weeks ago Northwestern fans were looking at quite possibly the very beast season of basketball they have ever had...they were hoping for not just their first ever NCAA bid but also a very, very good year....then.....an injury to John Shurna has turned everything around...
Now -- as fickle as fans anywhere else....the Northwestern fans seem to want Carmody out!! Can you believe it...from the pinnacle to the pits in a few short weeks. Fans are about as sensible as teeny bopper girls!
http://is.gd/nSqSqd



Tyler Les hit his only 3-pointer last night for UC-Davis raising his 3-pt shooting pct. this season to 48%.
Even though he hasn't played enough to qualify -- this is better than the guy who is leading the Big West Conference...so Tyler would be the conference leader!
Too bad Tyler is with BU -- I know he would be if our head coach was in full control of the program -- but if choices are being made for him, then I think it's a little asinine to blame the head coach for everything that is going wrong.
Recall......he was forced to alter his staff and his recruiting.

One bozo on one of the message boards said something to the effect that..
"anyone who'd offer a scholarship to Anthony Davis...couldn't be trust to do any decent recruiting"...

So...you bozos think that was Coach Les' idea?? What rock have you been under for the past year.....did you not know it was someone else that required a new assistant be brought in and land the player the bozo was upset about...?
I get a little amused at people who don't even know half the facts attacking the wrong people....but then I have grown accustomed to it..



High school ref gets suspended by state association after he ejects a coach from a game he reffed, then posted about it on his Facebook!
http://is.gd/9Mwfbb


Want to see the funniest story about a team shooting 3-pointers???
It happened in Iowa not far from where Bradley recruit Nate Wells plays...
West Burlington High School attempted 103 THREE POINT SHOTS last night in ONE game!!!
Here's the bad news....they didn't hit very many -- they hit only EIGHT of 103!
Thus they got hammered by undefeated Danville 109-25!!
http://is.gd/NhwDA1