Speaking of programs that need turned around...

Not sure what the goal really is at BU...
they keep saying it is to compete regularly for championships at the DI level...
but it looks a whole lot more like it is just to put on a happy face..

For 70 years - since WWII - the goal in Athletics at Bradley has been to compete at the highest level and compete to play with the best and beat the best.
This was what we did in the late 40's, the 50's, the 60's, even with the limited recruiting budgets of the 70's, then we actually were among the ranked and the best in the 80's, and at times in the 90's and even as recently as 2006-2008...
We were playing with the legendary programs - Kansas, Pitt, and beating them - and getting our team on NATIONAL TV and Sports Illustrated...

This all seemed to come to a screeching halt somewhere around 2008-2010 when it became obvious that our admin wanted JL gone and forced changes were made in our Athletic & coaching staffs
(Ken Kavanagh was forced out, then Chuck Buescher, Eric Buescher, Alvin Brooks, then Jim Les were all forced out - then new hires were brought in for every sport except soccer)
..so they could engineer what they wanted - 

Well, at some point - now 7 years into the JG era & 5 years into the Mike Cross era - (recall, the last five years that coincide with the first five years of the Mike Cross era have been the worse 5-year span in Bradley basketball history)
It's time someone asks - are we better off as they promised? Or have the changes been complete failures?
Just sayin'...don't blame the messenger - most of the messengers are just trying to throw 'em a life line...