Jalen Crawford & Skayok Shayok's visits to Bradley and more...

Looks like neither Shayok nor Crawford verballed after their visit -- so the deal was not closed.

BUT -- there's a lot of reason to be very optimistic....and Bradley fans are really great fans and it is apparent this fact was noticed......
as both Jalen Crawford and his mom, Sylvia, who accompanied him to Peoria said some really great things!
http://is.gd/YPfhEl

Jalen said this-
"Just landed back in the city...good weekend tho...time for some major sleep!"

...and here's what his mom tweeted...
"High 5 to Bradley U. Jay's Official Visit 2 check out the BU Braves was THE BEST college visit I've taken and I've..."
(recall, she went with her son Joe to Kentucky and her son Jordan to Indiana!!!)

and this...tweeted as a direct reply to the people on the message boards!!!
"...thanks for the warm welcome and hospitality!"

BTW -- Jordan's mom also said this...
"Other insightful research tools 4 parents & athletes are..should I say it?...here goes...the team's fan webpages, message boards & blogs!"
....so isn't it great that we have been a positive influence!!

I have evidence while she was in Peoria she and Jalen checked out at least one Bradley message board and one blog, and they liked what they saw.....

Thank heaven the imbecilic posts wishing BU would lose in the tourney and the threads where individual players were attacked and criticized have been deleted or are on the boards where they did not view.......
...same goes for many of the posts that go after other fans personally with really immature name calling....

This stuff is juvenile and has no place on a legitimate fan message board -- but then thankfully the recruits and their families likely never found that vile stuff since it's virtually impossible to locate it on a message board you have to pay to see....
The really great fans of Bradley basketball are 100% positive and love their players!

I have evidence that the only message board sportsmom found was the one she found a link to from the blog she evidently read and referenced...
and there can be no doubt she liked what she saw...read what she said.....
http://is.gd/UWo78O

She also just privately tweeted this about Bradley...
"..hats off to your alma mater, great institution starting with the people, no where to go but up!"

Even Jalen said (tweeted) this...guess what blog he's talking about!
"I never get into the blogging thing...but reading them is more than entertaining"


After a great start, Bradley baseball is now doing very poorly...
Bradley is just 1-5 since the start of conference play and is now in dead last place at 1-5.

I find this interesting since many were touting the success of BU baseball just a little too early -- could it be that they either jinxed them or put too much pressure on them...
Anyway -- some were right in cautioning that it was way too early for unbridled optimism...
http://is.gd/D4BD1o

And the cautions were dead-on as Bradley has now gone from 18-8 to 19-15 - winning only one of their last 8 games...
and now Bradley's overall record of 19-15 is only the 2nd best in the Valley...
Bradley still has 19 games remaining but a lot of ground to make up in the Valley race, then the MVC Tourney starts in Omaha May 24.



Last comment -- did you see this??
45% of all taxpayers don't pay ANY income taxes....FORTY FIVE percent!!!!
http://ozarksfirst.com/fulltext?nxd_id=439947

There's only four ways this could be possible...
-they don't make any or much income so truly don't owe any taxes
-they give all their income or most of it away and deserve the tax breaks
-they cheat or lie and get away with it
-they use loopholes or special exemptions and this needs to stop!

Any way you look at it..only ONE of the four possibilities above is really good.
It's fine with me if someone eliminates their tax burden by being generous and giving their earnings away...but if they are not working, not earning, cheating, or using sly loopholes, then the US government needs to do something -- get them to work, stop assuring tax breaks and handouts, and get them earning money and paying taxes as they should!