Lots were optimistically looking forward to 2014 - those who wanted all the housecleanings claimed when all the new coaches got their own players - we'd be competing for championships...
OK - we're here now.....how has 2014 turned out for Bradley's team sports.....?
(XC did well but even the other individual sports of golf, tennis, track - were disasters)
BUT - let's just check the team sports - the sports where game coaching matters - the sports that people actually come to see and come to cheer Bradley on...the sports where we are paying big contracts to hire those coaches that are doing this to Bradley...
In calendar year 2014, here are the records - all games/matches included:
Men's basketball: 7-14, & 7-11 in conference
Women's basketball: 6-17, & 5-13 in conference
Baseball: 24-27, & 5-16 in conference
Softball: 27-32, & 15-12 in conference
Volleyball: 1-25, &1-15 in conference
Soccer: 10-11-1, & 1-5 in conference
TOTAL - all team sports records combined for 2014...
75-126-1, and 34-72 in conference...woeful......really, really woeful....
All told - in 2014, Bradley won only 37% of their contests overall, and only 32% of their games in the MVC.
And yet there are still clueless fans and some media people who claim we are headed in the right direction!
I doubt you can find a single year where Bradley's team sports did so badly across the board - no wonder the attendance had crashed to only half of what it once was - and the number of donors, Scholarship Society members, and just people who care or who are interested - have all literally plummeted to only a small fraction of what once was...
The amazingly stupid long term contracts given to the very people, in the Athletic Dept. and coaching staffs - that have brought BU athletics to this low point are the anchor that is killing BU sports.
As recently as 2008 & 2009 Bradley basketball was winning 20 games, heading to the post-season, and commonly drawing crowds over 10,000 - even several sellouts.
The dive occurred after that despite the attempt by some to try to blame it on those who successfully raised $170 million back in the early & mid-2000's for all the improved facilities, and who helped build donations and the BSS to an enviable record level that has not and likely now will not ever be surpassed.
Read for yourself:
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=294762#post294762
Please stop looking for someone else, even fans - to blame - put the blame where it belongs - and right this sinking ship before we are indeed DIII.
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