We all saw it coming - except some chose to deny it and continue to praise the Glasser/Cross/Ford-triumverate that sunk Bradley to the worst and most disastrous levels in all of history.Not just bad basketball - and I mean sickeningly bad basketball - but horribly bad, losing teams in virtually every other sport that matters...and that doesn't even touch on the financial mess bordering on corruption and mismanagement of funds that also has gone unreported except for the few on message boards who have made this crap known....
WBB, VB, and especially MBB & others all having their historically worst seasons and worst success/offense/defense/blowouts/etc.... ever - all the while the PJStar and their lapdog writers who had their noses up JG's hiney hoping for a cushy teaching job post-journalism retirement - plus a few clueless fans who denied the horrible fallout from the Joanne Glasser moves & actions - simply never got it...
They never actually saw how bad Bradley had become - plus even nearly bankrupt - losing fans by the multiple thousands ..all happening right before their eyes in unprecedented fashion.
Their hate for Jim Les consumed them and drove their shallow minds into praising anything that came after JL's firing because to do otherwise might hint at how horribly wrong they were and how destructive their moves and actions were. They continue to this day to try to rewrite the fact and history and try with futility to blame JL when it was JG, MC, and GF plus their enablers who were and ARE 100% responsible for the mess & fallout.
But even worse - those PJS folks and the clueless fans who asked & begged for all this to happen were actually the ones who drove the hapless leaders at BU into making untold bad decisions....they caused all this disaster we've had to suffer through the past 4-5 years.
Many of those clueless fans are gone now, but some still hang around refusing to admit how horribly wrong they were in wanting these changes - but their idols - JG, MC, and GF are all gone now -
fired, canned, sent packing, house cleaned.
And it couldn't have happened sooner - we were on the brink of irreversible disaster with home crowds in the 2000-3000 range. Remember - just as recently as the final Jim Les season we had multiple home crowds over 10,000 and sellouts!
Free at last.....and headed in the right direction...
only a little more than a month into the new, Chris Reynolds/Brian Wardle era and the spirit, optimism, and energy is soooo different - noticably different --
thousands showing up for the intro ceremony and thousands MORE trying to book spots for the upcoming off-season banquet.
Did you know....not once in the entire 5-year Michael Cross era did we ever have even ONE SINGLE post-season banquet - NEVER!
Plus he destroyed the ITOO supper, BU tailgate, and half a dozen other favorite fan events...
History will show forever the failed JG/MC/GF era as the worst period in all of Bradley Braves Athletics. Someone has to document it because those in charge at BU never will ...
Like a San Francisco earthquake - horribly destructive and needed enormous rebuild - but a platform to show the greatness that is Bradley and the Braves' fan base.
Go Braves!!
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Over a year and still no coverage of the mess caused by administration...
Well, as even more of Geno's players bolt & go elsewhere - adding to the historic record high player turnover and disastrous era that was predicted as part of the Glasser/Cross/Ford fallout...
It is indeed amazing yet also predicted that the local newspaper is pretty much ignoring all this fallout or somehow still trying to blame it on someone else from 6, 8, 12, or even 20 years ago!
There are few stories in the newspaper and little coverage about the newest Brian Wardle recruits - but no big deal since all you'd need to know you can find on the message boards.
A few years back when Geno Ford was landing commitments from such studs as Omari Grier, Anthony Fields, Stefan Zecevic, Jordan Swopshire, Shayok Shayok, Chris Blake, etc....
the PJStar writers were drunk with optimism about how great they were...
they were giddy - using such descriptions as "far more talented", "deeper and more talented at every position", "light years better", "difference makers", "go-to guys", "multiple TOP-100 recruits", etc....
However, now that we have seen the talent brought in by Geno Ford and that none of them came close to the players he inherited in the supposedly "empty cupboard" (Walt Lemon, Jr., Dyricus, Will Egolf, Taylor Brown, Jake Eastman, etc...)
..now we see that the writers at the PJS were so incredibly over-the-top wrong about the Geno recruits, and that now they are intentionally staying silent either out of embarrassment or because they no longer feel the compulsion to kiss up to the new administration and coaching staff. Thus, expect a change in tone back to what things were like when Jim Les was head coach.
Watch for hit pieces and harsh analysis and watch for coverage that's always a day late & dollar short.
But where a good reporter would do his job by digging and finding facts and information - this staff seems perhaps quite shorthanded in that arena.
The job of a good reporter requires you go find sources...
you do some work & dig & find information.....
..not just sit at your desk and wait 'til the coach calls...
The PJS has degenerated into woeful coverage in a matter of the past several years. High school coverage is virtually non-existent & coverage of BU & Valley stuff has dwindled to the press releases Geno & Mike Cross wanted printed & stuff that we've been discussing for several days.
As we said many times - if they wanted a great story on what's going on at BU they could have gone and asked just about anyone on campus
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=25134
... Many people were speaking out but nobody from the PJS wanted to cover that story - which ended up culminating in the simultaneous firing of all the PJS' favorite people up there ..
It really was a BIG story - pretty much the biggest Peoria or Bradley story since Elmo & Edna Batterton - that they just missed repeatedly even when it was hitting them in the face.
Seriously - no DI school - and likely no college or school of ANY KIND in all of history has ever had such an unprecedented housecleaning - running out their Prez, AD, & premier head coach all in the same action and all at the same time - at a cost of tens of millions of dollars...
and yet the PJS reported it all weeks after it was common knowledge
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=306468#post306468
... and reported it as if they were multiple, unrelated, separate events (several separate people retiring & resigning) that had nothing to do with their utterly failed performances.
As has been said - the PJS folks hitched their wagons to those utter failures and so they didn't want to talk much about the whole thing.
One more thing that I recall - way back last July, after we'd been talking about this subject for months already and all the failures & financial mess -
Pam Adams, not even connected to PJS Sports "wrote" a column in which she essentially parroted the propaganda that came from BU admin about the only problem being the little unexpected drop in enrollment. -
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20140604/NEWS/140609581/0/SEARCH
She denied there'd be any repercussions, no layoffs, no buyouts... LOL - but indeed there were - the very biggest "big wigs" at Bradley were all bought out and sent packing!
AND YET - the entire article misses the mark by a zillion miles - they never once point at the massive mismanagement in Athletics which we all knew was the reason for all this...
They never did get it, but at least Pam Adams was sniffing around like a blind squirrel but not really interested in finding anything.
Nobody in Athletics seemed to know a thing and if they did they did NOT want to cover it or talk about it - even the Bradley Scout had far better coverage of the massive changes on campus and in administration that have been discussed openly with references - on the message boards for well over a year.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=24001
It is indeed amazing yet also predicted that the local newspaper is pretty much ignoring all this fallout or somehow still trying to blame it on someone else from 6, 8, 12, or even 20 years ago!
There are few stories in the newspaper and little coverage about the newest Brian Wardle recruits - but no big deal since all you'd need to know you can find on the message boards.
A few years back when Geno Ford was landing commitments from such studs as Omari Grier, Anthony Fields, Stefan Zecevic, Jordan Swopshire, Shayok Shayok, Chris Blake, etc....
the PJStar writers were drunk with optimism about how great they were...
they were giddy - using such descriptions as "far more talented", "deeper and more talented at every position", "light years better", "difference makers", "go-to guys", "multiple TOP-100 recruits", etc....
However, now that we have seen the talent brought in by Geno Ford and that none of them came close to the players he inherited in the supposedly "empty cupboard" (Walt Lemon, Jr., Dyricus, Will Egolf, Taylor Brown, Jake Eastman, etc...)
..now we see that the writers at the PJS were so incredibly over-the-top wrong about the Geno recruits, and that now they are intentionally staying silent either out of embarrassment or because they no longer feel the compulsion to kiss up to the new administration and coaching staff. Thus, expect a change in tone back to what things were like when Jim Les was head coach.
Watch for hit pieces and harsh analysis and watch for coverage that's always a day late & dollar short.
But where a good reporter would do his job by digging and finding facts and information - this staff seems perhaps quite shorthanded in that arena.
The job of a good reporter requires you go find sources...
you do some work & dig & find information.....
..not just sit at your desk and wait 'til the coach calls...
The PJS has degenerated into woeful coverage in a matter of the past several years. High school coverage is virtually non-existent & coverage of BU & Valley stuff has dwindled to the press releases Geno & Mike Cross wanted printed & stuff that we've been discussing for several days.
As we said many times - if they wanted a great story on what's going on at BU they could have gone and asked just about anyone on campus
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=25134
... Many people were speaking out but nobody from the PJS wanted to cover that story - which ended up culminating in the simultaneous firing of all the PJS' favorite people up there ..
It really was a BIG story - pretty much the biggest Peoria or Bradley story since Elmo & Edna Batterton - that they just missed repeatedly even when it was hitting them in the face.
Seriously - no DI school - and likely no college or school of ANY KIND in all of history has ever had such an unprecedented housecleaning - running out their Prez, AD, & premier head coach all in the same action and all at the same time - at a cost of tens of millions of dollars...
and yet the PJS reported it all weeks after it was common knowledge
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=306468#post306468
... and reported it as if they were multiple, unrelated, separate events (several separate people retiring & resigning) that had nothing to do with their utterly failed performances.
As has been said - the PJS folks hitched their wagons to those utter failures and so they didn't want to talk much about the whole thing.
One more thing that I recall - way back last July, after we'd been talking about this subject for months already and all the failures & financial mess -
Pam Adams, not even connected to PJS Sports "wrote" a column in which she essentially parroted the propaganda that came from BU admin about the only problem being the little unexpected drop in enrollment. -
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20140604/NEWS/140609581/0/SEARCH
She denied there'd be any repercussions, no layoffs, no buyouts... LOL - but indeed there were - the very biggest "big wigs" at Bradley were all bought out and sent packing!
AND YET - the entire article misses the mark by a zillion miles - they never once point at the massive mismanagement in Athletics which we all knew was the reason for all this...
They never did get it, but at least Pam Adams was sniffing around like a blind squirrel but not really interested in finding anything.
Nobody in Athletics seemed to know a thing and if they did they did NOT want to cover it or talk about it - even the Bradley Scout had far better coverage of the massive changes on campus and in administration that have been discussed openly with references - on the message boards for well over a year.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=24001
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