Sad State

What probably hurts the most about the mess that currently is Bradley basketball is that the pain is far from over....

Most of us have been following, supporting & donating to BU for many decades...
some since the 40's & 50's...
I sit in front of the widow of Bob Carney and their family have been season ticket holders and supporters since the early 1950's...

But most of us have a lifetime tied up in Bradley basketball....Bradley basketball is our passion - sure it's illogical but it is what it is....
sure, other things may come first - faith, family, friends -- but most all of us would agree we were here long before those who took over the reigns in 2007 & 2008 - and most of us will be here far into the future picking up the pieces and suffering from the fallout...

For folks who have come into Peoria having never set foot here before and likely never knowing a doggone thing about Bradley University - and for the Board to enable those people who have only been here 4, 5, or 7 years - to so vastly change Bradley for the worse - to send not just athletics but academics and the finances of the entire University quickly down the drain...
is a real tragedy....cuz we all know they will soon take their golden parachute, their comfy buyouts & retirements, and they won't care any more...

But the loyal and generous fans who have supported this school thru thick & thin will suffer severely from this mess for generations to come.
And, one more time, it did NOT have to happen - plenty of people from fired administrators to fine academic people at BU to even the fans...
all saw it coming long ago and tried to warn those in charge & on the board..
it didn't have to happen - it's like a visiting child who plays with your beloved cocker spaniel and chokes it to death because he has nothing invested in it himself except his own strange enjoyment of doing what he's doing.