Get a kick out of the new PJS and their sudden Koolaid coverage...

Disclaimer - this is an opinion about the newspaper coverage Bradley basketball gets...
I will simply state the case and you can decide....this is not about Bradley basketball and is meant only to highlight an overwhelmingly clear trend to treat Bradley basketball when it was under Jim Les quite differently and unfairly.
I love that just maybe the media is trying to be more fair and positive - but by contrast - it is clear they went way overboard to treat Bradley in the JL era as harshly and unfairly as possible. Someone simply needs to call them out on it and show their bias and their agenda against JL and BU basketball the past several years.


Here's just a simple statement - that the PJ Star people have treated this year's Bradley Braves quite differently than past year's.
I guess I am OK with the fact that the PJS writers have gotten religion or something and suddenly started writing nice things.

Just read the titles or if you want - look the articles

Senior stories are compelling trilogy
Reynolds: BU’s silver lining gives hope
Braves accentuate the positives down stretch
Reynolds: Bradley building through victories
Reynolds: Big things lie ahead for Braves
Another moral victory in season full of them for Bradley
Wessler: Braves proving they’re capable
Redshirt freshman Nate Wells getting bigger, making great strides
Wessler: Bradley has pep in its collective step
Lemon adjusting well to new role as point guard for Bradley
Wessler: Braves still trying to find themselves
BU rebounds, at least competitively
No reason for Bradley to feel blue
Wessler: Bradley not scared to compete
Wessler: BU performance fun, if not pretty
Bradley on rebound after break up in Wyoming
Reynolds: Bradley taking on new heights
Wessler: Braves come away with hope, if not wins
Wessler: Effort first, execution will follow
Wessler: Braves prove you can’t win by half measures
Bradley stepping forward with a look back
Wessler: A start to look the part
Bradley ready, willing
Thompson seeks renaissance under new Bradley staff
Plenty of promise in new point guard Walt Lemon
Veteran Braves looking for fresh start under new coach
Five freshmen give Bradley a new look
BU basketball: The first of many,well, firsts
Reynolds: BU ‘family ’is in this together
BU basketball off to fast start
Bradley 's incoming freshmen showing compatibility, athleticism


....did you see even one that sounded down or negative as ALL the columns were in the Jim Les era?? Last year is was a daily attack-fest ...

But, then this is what we have seen for years from a staff at PJS that never wanted to see JL as head coach and who always have a man-love-affair with the guy over whom JL was selected.



One comment about Lamar's head coach, Pat Knight, son, long time assistant to, and protege of Bobby Knight.

Some comments from his rant where he attacked and threw his own players under the bus have not all been made as widely known as other comments...

BUT - here's one comment quoted directly from Pat Knight's public press conference after the game...

"We've got the worst group of seniors right now that I've ever been associated with. Their mentality is awful. Their attitude is awful.

"I feel sorry for the fans. I feel sorry for this school. I mean these kids are stealing money by being on scholarship with their approach to things."

"We've had problems with these guys off the court, on the court, classroom, drugs, being late for stuff.
"Usually you have one or two guys that are a problem. We have an infestation of guys that are hard to coach."

"When I played, if you acted like the way some of these guys did, you got shoved in a locker with a forearm up against your neck and told, ‘You don't do that. That's not how we do things here at Indiana.' And that's what we need."

http://www.ksla.com/story/17012010/pat-knight-rails-against-players-after-loss-to-sfa


I can appreciate that maybe some of the players are spoiled and lazy but does a coach really need to detail that exactly what he should do to his players is...

"shove then into a locker with a forearm up against their neck and say ..
'You don't do that'"?

I think what this shows to me is a real serious personality issue on Pat Knight's part --
..first because he grew up around Bobby Knight - he thinks the way to deal with issues is get mad, and get violent...
after all that's what we saw from Bobby Knight for the better part of 40 years...
Throwing objects at referees, choking his own players, attacking innocent janitors in Puerto Rico, and then all the verbal berating and bullying.

Now Pat Knight thinks the baton has been passed to him and it's now his job to be college basketball's worst and most arrogant bully?
What a jerk - maybe if he had the coaching resume to back it up but then he was handed a team that was built, recruited, and designed by a Hall of Fame coach and Pat turned Texas Tech into a laughingstock in the Big East.

Pat Knight's record at Texas Tech is horrible.
It's buoyed by a whole bunch of cushy and easy pre-conference softies, and even despite that he's way below .500.
He's 50-61 overall up thru 2011 but his Big 12 record is hideous...
In the year he took over for his daddy they went 7-9 in the Big 12, but that's deceptive as they pretty much only beat the bottom dwellers - and under Pat they lost in record-braking fashion 109-51 to Kansas and 98-54 to Texas A&M...and he guided them to just 4-7.

The next year - Pat's first full year on his own at Texas Tech - they went 3-13 in the Big 12, but the non-conference was fattened by the likes of games against completely unheard-of DIII opponents like East Central University -
who they beat 167-115 - believe it or not!!!

Then same thing in 2009-2010 - they went 4-12 in the league but walloped all their softies in the non-conference games.

Then 5-11 in 2010-2011...so overall 16-43 against Big 12 opponents.....way, way worse than Bradley's record against Big 12 squads in that same time span....
(recall Bradley beat several Big 12 teams including Kansas, Iowa State, ...

-- oh - and BTW -- just as a final bit of evidence - Texas Tech is 1-14 in the Big 12 with what Pat Knight left them....so now he wants to throw all the Lamar kids under the bus and go out and get more players - yeah, right.....REMEMBER -- Texas Tech is 1-14 with Pat's players that HE recruited....this is even worse than Bradley's conference record!!

Whether Pat Knight or even his dad in the end is considered a good coach has to be looked at in the light of how they did when they didn't have the immense recruiting prowess that came from being at Indiana. Just look at the Texas Tech numbers and it's a bit harder to say either of them was much better than mediocre.