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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