With excuses growing thin a small but vocal clan tries hauling out a haggard old alibi

I saw a claim that the current Bradley situation and indeed the changeover of coaches from Jim Les to Geno Ford was ...."a situation" that "was not remarkable in any way"


I respectfully disagree and will present evidence to support that the Jim Les situation was really quite unique...
Just show me any other coaching changeover where such a vocal clan of fans that team with the grudge-holding media to continue well into the 4th year attacking the past coach?

Here are the numerous unique factors to the BU situation...

-Les came under attack and was criticized even before he was a finalist for the job
-the local media made absolutely NO effort to hide their displeasure with JL's selection and stirred up an uproar with attack pieces for the entire first year or more than JL was here...
(remember the Phil Theobald attack that he never explained that Les had surrounded himself with people who prefer the expedient way to the ethical way)
-the editor and columnist of the PJ Star (Kirk Wessler) has publicly stated he soured on Jim Les in year two, became convinced he had to go and began beating the drum to get JL fired...all before JL had been here for his 3rd season!
-then Jim Les was fired after his first and only losing season over a SIX YEAR STRETCH - something that is extremely rare and only a handful of such examples of a coach being "fired for losing" when he actually had that much success.
-lastly - even though all players who played for JL are long gone, we're in our 4th year under GF, and even the JL-haters guaranteed we'd be winning and competing for championships by now - those same people have hypocritically backtracked and in order to cover their own embarrassment have begun dragging out the old "blame it all on Jim Les" and "this terrible slide actually started 10-12 years ago" fairy-tale.