"Bradley hired Jim Les when they were "stuck" after Brian Gregory was hired by Dayton. Bradley could have hired Jim, Wayne or re-open the search. Bradley did not want to get egg on their face by re-opening the process.
Al Biancalana was never welcomed by Les because Les was insecure about his lack of head coaching ability and knew Biancalana was actually better prepared for the job.
Assistant Steve Merfeld run off about 1 week after Vegas Invitational (early December 2009). Pretty curious move when an assistant coach leaves 7 games into a season. ..."
I had never seen this post before or else I would have found a way then to debunk all that's wrong here.
but even worse than the ignorance displayed by these comments - is the complete lack of any of the next many responses that go on for a few more pages - who seem not to know how incredibly wrong this crap is. But then given where this occurred, no surprises.
-First - even a dolt can readily find or confirm that Brian Gregory, who was a candidate for the Bradley job, did not withdraw because he took the head coaching job at Dayton.OMG - he wasn't hired at Dayton until a FULL freaking YEAR later in 2003.He withdrew from candidacy because of the irrational and offensive behavior of one of the 2002 selection committee members who was openly campaigning for the hiring of Wayne McClain and kept repeatedly pressuring the candidates about racism, how many Black friends they had and other offensively personal information. This was widely reported even by the PJ Star and it resulted in BOTH Gregory and additional candidate James Jones (who is Black) both withdrawing their names saying they do not want the job if they had to be subjected to such offensive behavior from the member of Bradley's Board of Trustees.So - the Gregory part of this post is so filled with stupidity that I hardly need to go further but....
-Then the comment on Biancalana is false also. Biancalana was someone else's choice for assistant coach - he was never Jim Les' choice. When Mr. Biancalana decided he no longer wanted the position HE CHOSE to leave. It was his choice and it was clearly reported as such by the local media.
Interestingly - there were rumors of a grudge and lo & behold, within a few weeks the NCAA had gotten an "anonymous tip" about some violations and were almost instantly on campus unannounced looking for and digging for things to nil Bradley.
You can draw your own conclusions.
-Lastly the Merfeld thing. Yup he suddenly resigned in early December 2009, right after we had played in Las Vegas.
But the precipitating factor is that while Bradley was in Las Vegas - Merfeld was reported to have met with the Illini coaching staff secretly - purportedly about a possible opening on their coaching staff - but later when it was apparently found that the assistant met secretly with the staff of a team we were playing in that tournament - then that's all that is necessary to demonstrate a violation of whatever you want to call it - where people don't have secret sessions with the opponents before a game.
Nobody has to believe any of this - and this one never hit the press.
It was just an issue of a guy's gotta fit on a coaching staff to be comfortable and welcome there - and a few things just alter that fit...
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