The fallout continues

Won't completely rehash all the past fallout - way too much for even a long paragraph to do justice to all the losing, arrests, financial disaster, player ineptitude and loss of fans & revenue.
But the fallout continues as the new coach Brian Wardle generously offers a roster spot to Geno Ford's recruit, Warren Jones, and simply expects him to be a good citizen, a good student, and honor his own pledge to abide by the Code of Athletic Conduct.
Must have been too much to ask, and now Warren Jones is a goner, too.
On the surface it looks devastating to lose the best scorer, but I doubt it would make any difference at all. Given all the injuries, suspensions, arrests, and games where Jones chucked gobs of bad shots, I can't really say this next fallout hurts that much at all.
Keep in mind we still will suffer further fallout from the horrible moves of the recent past - as Bradley is expected to finish 10th in the MVC by everybody.
We still likely have a couple years of agonizing difficulties that are direct fallout from the Joanne Glasser/Mike Cross/Geno Ford era of horrible negligence and mismanagement, even though the rewrite of history goes on and the local media keep heaping accolades on those who destroyed BU Athletics while trying to fabricate blame to heap onto people from the distant past.

I know it's hard to re-read all this but I have ranked the TEN WORST decisions and actions in the entire 112-year history of Bradley Athletics...

10- All other bad moves in the past (firing Versace, firing Mo, hiring Albeck, hiring friends as head coaches, creating horrible work environments of oppressive oversight & micro-management, and trying to appeal to a small, clueless squeaky-wheel - bunch of fans who hated Jim Les because they were enamored with WM) still barely add together to total enough damage to maybe place that sum of all messes at position #10.

9- The firing of Ken Kavanagh - all you have to do is look what he's done at FGCU and you can't help but see that even 10% of all he's done to benefit them would have pleased the fans here at Bradley.  I'd rank this higher except this actually turned out to be the single greatest thing that ever happened to Ken.  How many AD's could possibly get fired, have to seek another spot without any recommendation from his prior boss - even being painted as a bad-guy by his admin. & the local drive-by media - and yet he gets a great position at FGCU - beating out a hundred other top candidates, will become a legend there and wins the AD of the YEAR!  It's turned out so good for KK that maybe I am actually happy it happened this way - otherwise the admin here would have taken him down as well - and we'd be just as bad even if he was here.

8-The recruiting- holy cow - how could anyone possibly think those guys who couldn't even play well in high school or juco without being kicked off their teams - would turn into great players at the DI-level?  The list goes on and on of players Geno & staff recruited and hyped, and of course they got help hyping them from the PJS-boys who claimed Geno's recruits were best ever, TOP recruiting classes, deep/talents/versatile - better and deeper at every position, etc..
It was a veritable comedy for four years where the only bright spots were the "empty-cupboard players" such as Dyricus, Walt, Will, Jake, Taylor, and even Nate wells who were all "light years" better than what Geno brought in.
(Tie - Moving games to Ren-Col - shrewd plan that would have destroyed BU Athletics even worse had it not been halted instantly when JG/MC were sent packing.)

7-Scheduling - need I say more - the basketball schedule was responsible for half the lost fans.  Plus there were schizophrenic moves like swearing & vowing we will never do buy-games then when you get desperate and find that you've wasted $$ millions, you do buy games to get some money back in your pockets so you have more to waste.

6- Firing Jim Les - Les has gone on to a very respectable four years at UC-Davis, Conference Coach of the Year - playing in the post-season, filling his own arena, record-breaking attendance & Revenue there, etc...while it's been the exact polar opposite at BU.  Need I say more, this act put Bradley Athletics on the true slippery slope. Take a bow JG, MC, and of course Gerald Shaheen.
Went straight from 20-win seasons to worst basketball ever seen on the Hilltop, 25-loss seasons, and the loss of not just a massive number of games but the loss of half the fan base and close to $20 million in revenue down the drain trying to fix the immediate fallout.

5- Hiring Dr. Cross- again don't really blame MC as his role was just to be a yes-man and he did that pretty well.

4- Hiring Geno - but I really don't blame Geno all that much, as he was put into a situation that just about anyone should have been able to win but the leadership above him added so many negatives and distractions that it negated anything he did.

3- Throwing good money after bad - the Board allowing Dr. Glasser to spend money like it was Monopoly dollars - jacking up the offer to $750,000 to finally lure some desperate coach into taking the job that over a dozen other candidates turned down because they didn't want to work under the terms and conditions that were in place at the time.
They also threw good money after bad in wasting bunches to hire assistants who were unproven but who may bring in over-heralded recruits, in developing logos & mascots, in acting irresponsibly to provoke lawsuits and threats of other lawsuits and having to then pay out buyouts & lawyers' fees, and in other things like  buying a couple extra games at the end of a bad season, just to be able to get two more wins and try to lay claim to "improved" - thus paying out more bonuses and adding pain to misery by then giving raises & extensions to everyone who was performing miserably.

2- Letting the decision-making in 2007 fall into the hands of Gerald Shaheen, a proponent of handing the reins over to Joanne Glasser and letting her run amok, unchecked and unbridled to nearly destroy a Great University and Athletic Program.

1 - Hiring of Joanne Glasser - in just a few years Bradley Athletics went from Sweet Sixteen, NCAA, and NIT plus record donations, record fund-raising - to a point by 2011 that we were a laughingstock in most every sport, then we got worse from there, losing half the fan base and more than half to donations and nearly went bankrupt and dropped to DIII.
All this required a historic and unprecedented firing of everyone at the top to clean house and hire the right kind of people to get us back on track.

Is it not unbelievable that there were clueless fans just weeks ago still touting Dr. Glasser as the best president ever?  But then those same fans have shown a consistent cluelessness for years.