Transitioning to the Brian Wardle era

Since it's obvious that now we will never get any answers to the "hardball" questions posed in the last entry - then we'll move on the the new Brian Wardle era...

Wardle is already offering some new kids and two pressing issues that will be worked on over the next few days are:

-What players are gonna stay and who is gonna leave?
..surely some of the current players on the roster will leave but seems a lot of people think a huge effort should be made to placate Josh Cunningham and get him to stay here.
Well -  I think it's huge disaster to placate anyone.  I think that's exactly what got Geno Ford in huge trouble.  There are numerous reports that right from the start Geno did not discipline strongly.  that players were allowed a lot of leeway and often got by goofing off and doing things that would not be tolerated even on a high school team.
We saw beyond question that some players were total goof-offs and some did finally get run off (Swopshire) and many ended up goofing off and getting into legal troubles (Barnes, Jones, Grier, Bell) - kids who were underage yet allowed to go bar-hopping at 2am on game nights!!!
Plus there were endless reports of players missing team busses, late for practice, wearing sloppy, disrespectful baggy clothing to games when not in uniform... - well you get the picture.

Now there are fans calling for the new coach to go begging and kiss butt to keep a player here - wow.
Nope - I say the coach sets the bar - orders the disciplinary code, and if the kid wants to stay & play then fine - otherwise DO NOT COMPROMISE!
Wardle has done OK at UWGB without having to kiss butt to recruits and AAU-types.


-Then.....who will be Bian Wardle's assistant coaches.
If he wants to keep someone currently on the staff then I will leave that 100% to B rian Wardle - otherwise it is yet another recipe for disaster to force a coach to take staff he does not choose.

I hope everyone knows - that this exact same situation is a large part of why Bradley has been so bad for the past five years.

....in 2010 when Dr. Glasser wanted to "force the issue" but was unable to get Board approval to fire Jim Les,
She required by virtue of cancelling their contracts, that Jim Les fire two assistants (Buescher & Alvin Brooks) and that two new assistants would be hired...
of the two, JL was allowed input on one and the other would be chosen with little or no input from JL..
Willie Scott was one - Jim Platt was the other - and Platt was encouraged to bring in one recruit of HIS own choosing above & beyond any preference of head coach Jim Les - in other words Dr. Glasser essentially brought in Andrew Davis - -- committing a scholarship to a player that was not in any way a preference or choice of the head coach - an incredibly odd & unusual situation that clearly doomed Bradley to a disastrous year in 2010-11.
Thus - when the record was bad that year - it got blamed on the head coach when the real blame was largely elsewhere.

Seriously - how does a school let a President pick the recruits over the judgement of the head coach?  But it happened and now we see the distant fallout from such idiocy.

I say let let's try something new this time - let Brian Wardle run the show & pick his own people without interference.

Remember - Jim Les' overall record when he had ALL his own staff that he was able to choose himself was 102-71 (.590)

But his overall record when one or even TWO of his assistants were chosen by someone else was amazingly - 52-69 (.437)

Let's not make the same stupid mistakes that were made repeatedly this past 4-5 years & that we're all suffering dearly for.