Bradley's records in each sport over the recent years...plus update on Remy & NCAA bias...

Just in case anyone is interested, here are the performances of the teams in each sport that Bradley sponsors...
I am ready for a turnaround and for some great success -- and I am pulling for Geno to be the key part of that...
I want success - but we've had a couple lean years.....

But in looking back.....
The exact W-L isn't easy in sports like golf, tennis, cross country, etc...so I counted 1st half finishes in various competitions...and I separated the records into the past 3 years and the three years before that,
.... plus each head coach's own career record at BU is noted....

Anyway -- make what you want of it....obviously each sport has some of it's own story -- some have new coaches playing with players from the old coach and some have new coaches who have been in place long enough to compile his own track record.

BUT -- I think it is safe to say that very FEW Bradley sports have compiled any significant success or winning ways over the past several years...
It is just hard to recruit to Peoria -- it always has been but some coaches have done well...even with injuries....

The only programs that can be said to have significant or sustained successes are...

Men's Soccer under Jim DeRose, Men's Basketball under Jim Les, and Women's Golf under Bo Ryan was remarkably successful.
Plus -- I would count Baseball as having some recent success....
Every one of Dewey Kalmer's final FIVE seasons had at least 26 wins, and he had an overall record in those five years of 141-128.
Since then we haven't even surpassed a 20-win season...and look to be really struggling this season after a good start -- and have had a total record of 57-81 since Dewey's departure.

Below is a compilation of the records ..

-The first number for each sport is the record over the past 3 seasons (2008-2011)

-The second number is the record over the 3 seasons prior to that (2005-2008)

-Then the current head coach, the length they've been at BU, and their career record if available...


MBaseball - 57-81, 84-80 (under Dewey Kalmer), Elvis Dominguez - 3 years, 57-81

MBasketball - 49-50 (even with major injury losses), 65-41 (under Jim Les), Geno Ford - new hire 0-0

MCross Country - 2 top half finishes 08-11, 4 top half finishes 05-08, Marc Burns 1 year - zero top half finishes

MGolf - two top half finishes, six top half finishes, Jeff Roche - 6 years - 8 top half finishes

MSoccer - 23-32-6, 39-20-9, Jim DeRose - 15 years, 166-117-31

MTennis - (singles & doubles matches total) 366-498 263-496 Jesse Plote 3 years

WBasketball - 52-40, 33-56, Paula Buscher, 11 years 192-210

WCross Country - 8 top half finishes, 2 top half finishes, Marc Burns 1st year, 3 top half finishes

WGolf - 17 top half finishes, 23 top half finishes, Mary Moan - 1st year, 5 top half finishes

WSoftball - 51-97, 63-73, Amy Hayes - 3 years - 51-97

WTennis - 211-502, 322-546, Scott Petersen - 7 seasons - 533-1048 in individual and doubles competition, but career MVC match record 3-52

WTrack - scores are poorly kept but generally Bradley does poorly, HC Marc Burns 1st year but generally BU is doing very poorly this season despite some individual records set.

WVolleyball - 27-67, 23-72, Jenny Maurer starting her 1st year - currently 0-0


So make whatever you want of this, but several sports are doing very poorly....

AND -- of the 13 sports Bradley sponsors, NINE of them have coaches who have been hired in the past THREE seasons....and not one of those sports under the new HC's has yet to establish itself as any better than the preceding years.....

In fact, in the one sport where you might have thought we'd have a great finish because of what the coach inherited....
check Women's Golf....
The prior head coach, Bo Ryan, had won FOUR MVC Titles his final decade, had NATIONALLY ranked teams, 30 TOP-3 finishes, and was MVC Golf Coach of the Year twice...
In the first year without Bo - even with a fine, experienced junior and senior class (Kelly Amundrud, Breanne Neufeld...) Bradley still struggled to finish 5th in the MVC...



Remy Abell is now taking a visit to Indiana who appear to be on Remy the hardest -- almost in a desperation mode for Tom Crean...

Remy also has FIVE main targets he's looking at...Indiana, Xavier, Butler, Penn State and Western Kentucky.
http://blogs.courier-journal.com/jodydemling/2011/04/24/remy-abell-update-visiting-iu-tomorrow/
(I have said all along I think he'll end up at Butler -- but Crean is promising immediate playing time!!)


Obviously Tom Crean is a desperation phase....he has to land a scorer....

This will be his 4th year there and each year he's had higher expectations but essentially no improvement over the previous year --
He's also had numerous 4-Star and top 100 recruits and Nationally ranked recruiting classes...so a lot of people have serious concerns about why he cannot win or even beat bad cupcake teams on his own home floor!

Plus there's a lack of optimism for next year as many of his experienced players seemed not to develop (Verdell Jones' numbers dropped, so did Tom Pritchard's, MR's, and Jeremiah Rivers') and his key returning scorer - got reinjured and his playing days may be over (Maurice Creek).

BUT -- even so -- Hulls was ineffective in scoring against bigger guards, and Watford who is his biggest post scoring threat spent way too much time pumping up 3-pointer (37-97).

I suspect Crean will be willing to break the bank, promise instant starting and playing time, etc.....but Remy is not dumb -- surely he sees what IU has coming in the next few years -- tons more shooting guards -- and hopefully he can see what Crean did to MR in recruiting over him...


One more solid piece of evidence on NCAA bias...

Remember when Bradley player Patrick O'Bryant was inadvertently (this was the NCAA's own words) overpaid a few hundred dollars? And the NCAA even conceded that NOBODY at Bradley knew a thing about it and not even the owner of the business knew about it....
YET -- not only was POB penalized but Bradley was hit hard by institutional sanctions with the NCAA saying it was Bradley's job to oversee this and that maybe they should know what's going on!

Well -- as you know -- John Calipari had forfeited TWO Final Four seasons (at UMass due to Marcus Camby & Memphis due to transgressions of Derrick Rose).

Anyway -- the NCAA has maintained that not only did John Calipari NOT know what was going on but that he wasn't to be held accountable for the cheating because he did NOT know....and other than forfeits for the ineligible player -- the institutions were not hit that hard!!