The media is keeping us in stitches, some followup on BU players, and some really funny comments from the "experts"...

WE WERE JUST DISCUSSING THE IDIOCY of some media "experts" who do not know and cannot figure out the difference between millions and BILLIONS!!

http://is.gd/Hmq3Ug

And note that this column was written a couple months ago and so surely they could at least correct the tremendous & graphic errors they have made.
PLUS - they must not have proof readers!

But -- Here's another entry in the "Anyone see anything wrong with this?"
and the fuzzy math column.........

Here are three separate quotes directly from the local paper - same section, same staff of writers - over the last couple days...

Dec. 5 ......
"Michael Berg put on a show Friday night. The 6-foot-5 forward scored 37 points and grabbed 31 rebounds" -
http://www.pjstar.com/sports/preps/x1712041946/Duvall-Henry-coach-glad-he-s-back-on-bench

Dec. 7 ......
"Michael Berg of Midwest Central is pretty good at basketball.
He’s latest effort of 39 points and 19 rebounds came in Tuesday’s 70-66 win.." - http://blogs.pjstar.com/prepsplus/2011/12/07/micael-berg-video-of-his-30-30-game/

Dec. 8 ......
"Michael Berg, Midwest Central: The Raiders senior is averaging 38 points, 20 rebounds ..in MC’s last two games" -
http://www.pjstar.com/sports/preps/x1719674549/Preps-daily-Thursday-Dec-8

Hmmm...wow, how can they not see their error? Did they add the rebounds, 31+19 and come up with 40 then find the average to be 20?
Or did they just think the average of two game that total 50 is 20?

Hmmm....at least they got half the simple math problem right - unfortunately a 50% score in my kids' school is way below a failing grade!



Here's some followup on ex-Braves players.......
Boogie had yet another fine game as Halifax beats Summerside 97-96
18 pts, 6 rebs, 3 blocks

AND -- Zach Andrews getting a chance!! He's been invited to the Los Angeles Lakers' training camp!! Congrats Zach...who is currently averaging 12 ppg, 9 rpg in the D-League
http://www.lockerpulse.com/News/Sacs-Zach-Andrews-invited-to-Lakers-camp-S2422505/



Nice article originating in the west coast press...on Jim Les
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/16367881

This kind of stuff is scarce in some markets that play to the hostile element of fan bases...
can you imagine the local press in Peoria ever writing a fair, complimentary story like this?? I sure can't...
..and I am sure Dick Lien, Phil Theobald, and Kirk Wessler never could either...



Here's the Cav's owner's own words... on the blocked trade that would have merged Kobe Bryant with Chris Paul in LA..

"It would be a travesty to allow the Lakers to acquire Chris Paul in the apparent trade being discussed.
This trade should go to a vote of the 29 owners of the Hornets.

Over the next three seasons this deal would save the Lakers approximately $20 million in salaries and approximately $21 million in luxury taxes. ..

I cannot remember ever seeing a trade where a team got by far the best player in the trade and saved over $40 million in the process. And it doesn’t appear that they would give up any draft picks, which might allow to later make a trade for Dwight Howard...

I just don’t see how we can allow this trade to happen.
I know the vast majority of owners feel the same way that I do.
When will we just change the name of 25 of the 30 teams to the Washington Generals?

Please advise…."

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ys-nba_dan_gilbert_email_lakers_hornets_trade_120811



Sad to hear this....Portland Blazers All Star Brandon Roy to retire??
http://espn.go.com/chicago/nba/story/_/id/7335092/brandon-roy-portland-trail-blazers-retire-due-knees-sources-say



I know we talked about this in a couple other threads....(see the message board thread on the Manual-Lanphier game being moved)

BUT based on an NCAA ruling that penalized Lute Olson at Arizona for hosting high school games on campus as a recruiting ploy...

Some have interpreted the NEW NCAA rule to prohibit using your own campus and home floor to host games as a recruiting tool...
...as also prohibiting all high school games that are held at your home venue.

Thus the University of Illinois' Shootout at the Hall - held in Champaign's Assembly Hall, and even the River City Shootout - this year called Riverfront Roundball -
have to be either cancelled or moved elsewhere because Bradley's home floor is at the Civic Center and somehow someone must think this is an unfair advantage for BU and has to be reigned in!!

BUT - here's where this argument is going to have many serious problems...

-1st - in many smaller cities with colleges, the college basketball floor may be the only good place to hold high school games, and if it isn't allowed, then games will have to be moved to horribly inconvenient places.

-also if this holds true for basketball, then what happens when we get to the HIGH SCHOOL soccer season, swim meets, or even golf tournies???


Bradley's home soccer field has been used by many local high schools -
http://is.gd/xsdIw0

..and lots & lots of colleges let high schools use their swimming pool for meets and tournies because so many smaller high schools simply don't have one.
AND - the college's own HOME GOLF COURSE might be the only one in town!!!
Where are high schools gonna play if they can't play there?? This rule is going to get ridiculous...

-Then - they're obviously going to have to make exceptions for Regionals, Sectionals, and the STATE TOURNEY because every kid that ever plays in IHSA's March Madness in Peoria in March is playing on a floor that says BRADLEY UNIVERSITY on it...so is that going to be a HUGE violation???



IHSA's latest listing of enrollments & classifications shows some interesting movement...
...and several area schools have changed classes....meaning they will now compete in a completely different class size come basketball state playoffs....

In boys basketball, here are the schools of interest that will be changing classes...

-Putnam County moves up from 1A to 2A
-Illini Bluffs (Jeremy Crouch's school) moves up from 1A to 2A
-Canton moves back from 2A to 3A
-Chillicothe/IVC also moves from 2A to 3A
-Rock Island Alleman moves from 2A to 3A

But here's the silliness of it - because of the new cutoff determination and waiver deal - many schools will be playing in different Classes in the same sport - between the girls & boys..

for example...
IVC is 3A in boys basketball and only 2A in girls basketball
Illini Bluffs is 2A in boys basketball and 1A in girls basketball
same with Putnam County...
Normal West is 4A in Boys basketball and 3A in girls basketball
Rock Island is 4A in boys basketball but 3A in girls basketball
Sterling Newman is 1A in boys basketball but 2A in girls basketball
Tuscola is 2A in boys basketball and 1A in girls basketball
Marian Woodstock is 3A in boys basketball and 2A in girls basketball
Chicago De La Salle is 4A in boys basketball and 3A in girls basketball

...and on and on....



I get a laugh occasionally out of what people say on message boards...everyone thinks they are a Rhodes Scholar...
I do read some other boards but don't usually give a hoot about what other people - in their totally uninformed and ignorant states - ever say...
but some sure do care what other people say on BradleyFans.....and you can kind of identify that those who care the most about what people say on the Bradley message board are the anti-Bradley folks...
... always looking for something to trash Bradley over - or the coaches or players or even the other fine fans. But most often they come out looking foolish...

But someone told me about one thing that some obscure and uninformed poster said about a recruit that's not real familiar to Bradley folks...so let's clear this up.

The kid is Tyler Brown - he's a juco kid who is now at ISU and he's actually one of their 2 or 3 best players - and perhaps their best outside shooter - something Bradley sorely needs. Wouldn't it have been nice if BU had a 50% shooter from the arc.
(Tyler Brown is shooting a remarkable 24-48! And he could have been a Bradley Brave!)

But this kid was all set to come to BU and wanted badly to come to BU and was a possibility to sign last spring with us - but...on March 6th, Jim Les was fired and all of that changed. Up until then ISU wasn't even in the picture but after Les was fired, the kid has now landed at ISU and actually is one of the Redbirds' bright spots and makes Jankovich look pretty good in landing him.

BUT here's what one really lame brain poster says...
..that he has proof that Tyler Brown was not considering Bradley and that he was leaning to ISU anyway...then guess what he gives as his proof...
he gives some article from April of 2011 saying ISU was one of Tyler Brown's favorites.

Duhhh..does this bozo realize what he's saying?? He's basically confirming the very fact he thinks he's refuting...
He's using an article from AFTER JL was fired to prove that Brown favored ISU before JL was fired.... ahem -- it just can't work that way as most informed people can easily see.

Thus you can add Tyler Brown to the lengthy list of fine players who would surely be helping Bradley had it not been for the events of the past year and especially last spring....players like Remy Abell, Sam Maniscalco, Sean Harris, even Tyler Les - who has said plainly he wanted to stay and play here had he been "allowed"...and now Tyler Brown. Can you spell F-A-L-L-O-U-T ?



Saw more on druggies, thugs, and crooks - ex-D-I basketball players getting arrested...
Can someone explain to me why every one of these guys hitting the news by getting himself arrested for drug and gun crimes is always an ex-player for the same few basketball coaches...
I just can't figure why???

Bruce Pearl always catered to the thugs and criminals..
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20111208/NEWS03/312080076/Former-Vol-J-P-Prince-arrested-DUI-Nashville?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cp

http://www.wvmetronews.com/news.cfm?func=displayfullstory&storyid=49670



I picked up a weekly news magazine that was sitting under some stuff on my desk......
...and began to read -- I knew it wasn't the most recent issue but...
The news seemed so current...

-Iran flaunting their nuclear capability and thumbing their noses at the rest of the civilized world..

-the president talking about how we need more stimulus handouts to spark the economy

-more and more street drug victims and crime...

-impasse in congress

-President talking more taxes

-scandal -- as top politicians are discovered to be getting rich with insider information and their connections to banks and investment firms..

-Hollywood millionaires going public with their loony statements about the environment and politics and acting like they are the representatives and spokespeople for all the rest of us...

-fraud and scandal as new info and new hacked emails reveal the global warming promoters are lying, falsifying data, and hiding the facts that they are lying..

-Barney Frank claiming he was not responsible for the failures and corruption in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (but he actually is)...

...such current news.....and so about 1/2 way thru the issue I thought to myself -- wow - this news is all so current - how can that be as this is not a new magazine...so I turned back to the front page and it was an issue from January of 2010 - nearly TWO full years ago...

Wow - how things have stalled out and this currently elected government and our choices to lead this nation have DONE NOTHING in the past two years -- especially those who have been in power for a long time --
I say vote all those crooks out!



Here's an interesting quote from today's Peoria Journal Star for those who think the Federal government's job is to run education in the country or to fund it ....
"A country spending twice as much per capita on education as it did in 1970 with zero effect on test scores is not under-investing in education. It's mis-investing."