More evidence Fallout is disappearing!!

Sellout of over 1200 fine Bradley basketball fans - on reasonably short notice for a Tuesday lunch in June!!
This was an astounding event showing the fans are still there and the destruction caused and fallout produced by the horrible Glasser/Cross/Ford era may yet be reversible, and on the way out.

Here's a rough timeline of the past few months...

Remember the dates....

March 16, 2015 - Chris Reynolds hired as new Athletic Director at Bradley

March 27, 2015 - Brian Wardle hired a new head basketball coach at Bradley


then the results start to flow.....

1 day later - March 28 - huge turnout for the Brian Wardle introductory press conference

1 week later- multiple players, including "star" Josh Cunningham start to "leave", and Drew Adams hired as assistant

2 weeks later three staff members (Adams, plus Jimmie Foster & Rick Karius) added

3 weeks later Ronnie Suggs, Joel Okafor & Dwayne Lautier-Ognuleye verbal to Bradley

4 weeks later Antoine Pittman verbals to Bradley & BU names interim President, Dr. Stan Liberty

5 weeks later - Davante Cooper & Pete Hanley verbal to Bradley & BU hires final asst coach Mike Bargen

6 weeks later - Luuk van Bree & Alex Foster verbal to Bradley, BU track does their best in years!

7 weeks later - Scottie James verbals to Bradley, BU baseball gets first NCAA bid in decades 

8weeks later - STRONG non-conference schedule is finalized but will be released & announced at next week's luncheon

9 weeks later - an awesome mid-week luncheon draws over 1200 and actually has to be capped and even more ticket buyers turned away - one of the most remarkable proofs ever seen that Bradley has begun to overcome the FALLOUT and is on the right track after 4 to 5 years of bad moves, bad choices, and bad results.

10 weeks later - June 5 - Dr. Glasser has "retired" & be prepared for our 9th verbal this spring!!

BY COMPARISON look at the 10 weeks before these two significant events/hirings that took place immediately AFTER the Glasser/Cross/Ford era - in fact it was these two hiring that put an end to that era!!
Lets march backwards from those same dates...and see the misery & fallout so we can get a real sense of how ecstatic Bradley fans are now by comparison!

Remember March 16 - Chris Reynolds hired...

1 week before - bounced from tourney as a play-in team/another season wasted
2 weeks before - season ends with embarrassing loss, boos, and tons of empty seats
3 weeks before - an even more humiliating 56-39 loss at UNI
4 weeks before - Dr. Cross is fired, can't even draw 7000 for the home ISU game
5 weeks before - coach embarrassed when Nate Wells starts winning games & becomes best player
6 weeks before - Bradley players arrested at Big Al's
7 weeks before - terrible 20-pt blowout loss at Wichita, scoring an embarrassing 43 pts
8 weeks before - announcement that Dr. Joanne Glasser will "retire"
9 weeks before - series of bad blowout losses to no-name non-conference teams
10 weeks before - Previously the BIG-WIGS at Bradley had always stuck to their guns and claimed Bradley was doing great and there would be NO FIRINGS & no buyouts!
BUT - Bradley fans begin writing letters to the Board and for publication in the newspaper and thus begins the turnaround...


so I think those dates - when Chris Reynolds & Brian Wardle were hired - are the defining moments in Bradley's history ...not the ridiculous stuff we've seen described as such in the media...

FALLOUT is ending - things look better - bright lights at the end of the tunnel....
All the crap for the last 4-5 years that the Jim Les-haters demanded and got 0 and all the suffering that good Bradley fans had to go through that we now call FALLOUT - is starting to ebb - soon it'll be gone and happy days will be here again.
Go Braves!