Thursday, January 29, 2015

Time for an unprecedented, sweeping change at Bradley

All those in power at Bradley University in both 2002 & 2011 used the following reasons to fire everyone, clean house, and completely rebuild....
And in both cases (2002, 2011) the press (Phil Theobald in 2002, Kirk Wessler in 2011) were the Exorcists who helped rid of us of all the perceived demons.

Here's the reasons they hailed

-losing games, losing finances, losing respect, losing fan base
-not competing for championships
-embarrassments off the court
-concerns of declining ticket sales/revenue
-vocal & written complaints from fans & season ticket holders
-and the desire to restore the public image of Bradley basketball to some higher level.

In 2002 there were a couple of down years but everything including winning, post-season, national caliber success, funds & donations and restoration of the program & ticket sales all happened in just 4 years

In 2011, different story - all the moves that were made were horribly planned, horribly executed, misguided, and regardless of everyone's good intent and they're all nice guys, we ended up way, way worse in every regard -
especially ticket sales, embarrassments, and public image...

BUT - in the intervening span (2011-2015) we've been fed such a tremendous line of B***S**T from those in power & their allies in the media that we WERE on the right track, we were "doing it the right way", that fans needed to shut up and be patient, that the fans were uneducated, that we are MUCH better even though nobody could see it, and that all the problems if they did exist were all someone else's fault who got run out of here half a decade or more ago.

It's time those who have failed us miserably fess up, and yield the stage...

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