Wednesday, November 11, 2015
A couple more followups and correcting lies..
From 2011-
correcting the stupidity and lies about the fundraising and the fact that Renaissance Coliseum and the $160 million fundraising was NOT accomplished by Joanne Glasser
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1213866806468167855#editor/target=post;postID=2629827392476746977;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=190;src=postname
From 2011-
Joanne Glasser hiring by acting as "a committee of one"
..also a prediction by Dr. Cross of serious upgrade in our schedule - even naming Villanova and touting his east coast connections...which of course never happened..
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1213866806468167855#editor/target=post;postID=813401176905421584;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=148;src=postname
From 2012-
who's to blame for Bradley's horrible record...
to those who asked for the housecleaning and new hires... look in a mirror..
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1213866806468167855#editor/target=post;postID=2131696760817277064;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=158;src=postname
From 2014-
Bradley's astounding plunge in attendance (and it's gone downhill even from there) - and it's all on Joanne, Cross, & Geno
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1213866806468167855#editor/target=post;postID=5918577626858656097;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=63;src=postname
From January, 2015-
The call for sweeping, unprecedented change and clean out the entire mess...
They have failed miserably - and this call for change was just a small part of what actually got it accomplished
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1213866806468167855#editor/target=post;postID=7699972609259158014;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=52;src=postname
Certainly some of the most remarkable predictions of all time
We have seen a lot of accurate predictions made years in advance when it comes to Bradley basketball - especially the idiotic moves made by Joanne Glasser and Mike Cross over the past 5-6 years.
But here are just a few that were stunning...these are from early in 2011!
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=216529&postcount=10
"...if we fire JL, get a new guy in here who has to rebuild with all new players, I happen to believe even tropical weather won't keep us from dropping another 1000 on the attendance average -- "
We dropped 1000 right away!!! Then as time went on- plenty more than 1000!!!
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=216535&postcount=12
"Hiring a new coach will cut into the budget sufficiently that any new coach will be hampered for years in his recruiting."
"I shudder at the thought of changing coaches now and being just as bad for the next 5 years.."
...OMG - not only just as bad - but actually way worse - historically worse - worse than Bradley basketball has ever been - with attendances dropping by 5,000-6,000!!!!
...and of course that comment was rebutted immediately by one of the know-nothings who claimed...
"I do not see this happening. That seems like an awful pessimistic outlook. ...
Why the doom and gloom?"
LOL - so who was right...?
DON'T those idiots now see....
they were soooo dammmm worried that if we kept Jim Les - then we'd be bad - maybe even finish lower than 4th in the MVC or drop to the bottom half of the Valley and our attendance may drop by even as much as 1000!!
Those fans were so incredibly anxious and desperate that they ignored the obvious warning signs of impending disaster, they handed the reigns to Joanne Glasser and crew - someone who had shown no ability to hire winning coaches EVER - AND they hopefully figured SHE'D RUN JIM LES OUT AND BRING IN A GREAT COACH WHO WOULD LEAD BRADLEY TO THE PROMISED LAND.
OMG - how wrong and how stupid they were yet they still claim to be experts who know what's going on.
Heck, if I was that wrong on so many things so many times, I'd hang it and stop talking.
In the end Joanne chose unwisely, sent Bradley into the worst four years of losing, the worst dropoff in attendance and the worst alienation of the incredibly loyal and faithful Bradley fans base ever imagined - UNPRECEDENTED!.
Now it'll take years to undo and repair all that damage and Tens of MILLIONS of dollars that were required to buy out those idiots' contracts and get them the heck outta here.
THE TRUTH can now be told without fear of retribution or having your job or season tickets revoked....
On the way out the door, the clueless PJ Star gave them the open mike to claim they'd done so much good for Bradley - yet when Dr. Cross was asked to expound on what his greatest accomplishments were - his only three bragging points were...
-the development of Kaboom - LOL - $100,000 to develop
-the deal with adidas (which is actually a lousy deal and even apparel sales have plummeted and it's being written up that not going with Nike or UA can and has hurt recruiting)
-building the Ren-Col - which was supposed to be the Puterbaugh Center until Cross & Glasser's moves ticked off Puterbaugh and he yanked his $3 million pledge & cost us that much in funding (numerous others also yanked their gifts & pledges costing Bradley over $10 million) - but...
but the facts are that the fund-raising campaign started in 2004 (spearheaded by Dr. Broski, Jim Les, and Ken Kavanagh, 80% of the funds were already raised before Glasser was in place and much was already even completed - (see this article on the new MARKIN CENTER already completed and open in May of 2007)
http://www.bradley.edu/admissions/freshman/experience/studentlife/recreation/index.dot
plus....95% was collected and done before Cross was here) and even the name Renaissance was there before they were in place - and the entire thing was actually almost BUILT and DONE by the time Cross was in place.
He had NOTHING to do with it but takes all the credit - geez.
So all three of his top achievements are lies - they didn't happen!
Even more proof:
http://bubravesblogger.blogspot.com/2015/08/for-record.html
http://bubravesblogger.blogspot.com/2015/09/just-some-simple-accounting-for-those.html
http://bubravesblogger.blogspot.com/2015/08/correcting-errors-again.html
http://bubravesblogger.blogspot.com/2014/12/some-interesting-facts.html
But here are just a few that were stunning...these are from early in 2011!
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=216529&postcount=10
"...if we fire JL, get a new guy in here who has to rebuild with all new players, I happen to believe even tropical weather won't keep us from dropping another 1000 on the attendance average -- "
We dropped 1000 right away!!! Then as time went on- plenty more than 1000!!!
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=216535&postcount=12
"Hiring a new coach will cut into the budget sufficiently that any new coach will be hampered for years in his recruiting."
"I shudder at the thought of changing coaches now and being just as bad for the next 5 years.."
...OMG - not only just as bad - but actually way worse - historically worse - worse than Bradley basketball has ever been - with attendances dropping by 5,000-6,000!!!!
...and of course that comment was rebutted immediately by one of the know-nothings who claimed...
"I do not see this happening. That seems like an awful pessimistic outlook. ...
Why the doom and gloom?"
LOL - so who was right...?
DON'T those idiots now see....
they were soooo dammmm worried that if we kept Jim Les - then we'd be bad - maybe even finish lower than 4th in the MVC or drop to the bottom half of the Valley and our attendance may drop by even as much as 1000!!
Those fans were so incredibly anxious and desperate that they ignored the obvious warning signs of impending disaster, they handed the reigns to Joanne Glasser and crew - someone who had shown no ability to hire winning coaches EVER - AND they hopefully figured SHE'D RUN JIM LES OUT AND BRING IN A GREAT COACH WHO WOULD LEAD BRADLEY TO THE PROMISED LAND.
OMG - how wrong and how stupid they were yet they still claim to be experts who know what's going on.
Heck, if I was that wrong on so many things so many times, I'd hang it and stop talking.
In the end Joanne chose unwisely, sent Bradley into the worst four years of losing, the worst dropoff in attendance and the worst alienation of the incredibly loyal and faithful Bradley fans base ever imagined - UNPRECEDENTED!.
Now it'll take years to undo and repair all that damage and Tens of MILLIONS of dollars that were required to buy out those idiots' contracts and get them the heck outta here.
THE TRUTH can now be told without fear of retribution or having your job or season tickets revoked....
On the way out the door, the clueless PJ Star gave them the open mike to claim they'd done so much good for Bradley - yet when Dr. Cross was asked to expound on what his greatest accomplishments were - his only three bragging points were...
-the development of Kaboom - LOL - $100,000 to develop
-the deal with adidas (which is actually a lousy deal and even apparel sales have plummeted and it's being written up that not going with Nike or UA can and has hurt recruiting)
-building the Ren-Col - which was supposed to be the Puterbaugh Center until Cross & Glasser's moves ticked off Puterbaugh and he yanked his $3 million pledge & cost us that much in funding (numerous others also yanked their gifts & pledges costing Bradley over $10 million) - but...
but the facts are that the fund-raising campaign started in 2004 (spearheaded by Dr. Broski, Jim Les, and Ken Kavanagh, 80% of the funds were already raised before Glasser was in place and much was already even completed - (see this article on the new MARKIN CENTER already completed and open in May of 2007)
http://www.bradley.edu/admissions/freshman/experience/studentlife/recreation/index.dot
plus....95% was collected and done before Cross was here) and even the name Renaissance was there before they were in place - and the entire thing was actually almost BUILT and DONE by the time Cross was in place.
He had NOTHING to do with it but takes all the credit - geez.
So all three of his top achievements are lies - they didn't happen!
Even more proof:
http://bubravesblogger.blogspot.com/2015/08/for-record.html
http://bubravesblogger.blogspot.com/2015/09/just-some-simple-accounting-for-those.html
http://bubravesblogger.blogspot.com/2015/08/correcting-errors-again.html
http://bubravesblogger.blogspot.com/2014/12/some-interesting-facts.html
Monday, November 2, 2015
Geno's lawsuit appeals
Geno Ford's (and of course his lawyers') multiple appeals all the way to the Ohio Supreme Court have all been rejected.
Now what appears to be the final blow - yet another denial from the Ohio Supreme Court
http://www.co.portage.oh.us/pa/imageview.asp?A962E61EFAED3F6CB909BAFDD28BCD05C105E34E0C3D849E28ECDAFA0F77AFDA2629394F633CE6D6B38B22DA77B8681D22F6EC0C5DCD13C1680DC763CD2CCA6A232296BDEC3E1397239ED01B925F411C
It appears now that Geno will be liable for the $1.2 million in damages (plus interest since 2013), but he does have a little recourse.
This is terribly unfortunate and all the fault of the reckless rush by Glasser & Cross to find any warm body to take their open coaching position back in 2011 without as consideration for common sense and legal requirements - as they rode roughshod over all precedence and violated all kinds of legal requirements and contract laws.
As was demonstrated by the documents put into evidence and publicly available, Bradley University and Dr. Glasser & Dr. Cross, gave Geno written contractual assurance in his contract that Bradley would pick up the tab for his buyout & penalties up to $400,000.
So - now Bradley's on the hook for even more costs - $400K above and beyond all the legal expenses Bradley had to spend as well as all the costs incurred with the hapless search process, the massively overpaying of Geno (and his overpaid assistants) considering the ineptitude and lack of any real winning track record or NCAA bids, and the stupendous costs of cleaning house, firing Geno, replacing him, and then buying out his & Cross' & Glasser's ridiculously bloated contracts as well.
All in all, the 4 years from the time Glasser & Cross fired Jim Les - up to the firing of the whole incompetent bunch (2011-2015) cost Bradley somewhere in the realm of $20 million down the drain for the worst four years of Bradley basketball and the worst horrific fallout that was ALL completely predicted by the smart fans who clearly knew more than those bozos in charge (or the clueless fans who had their noses up JG's butt) - in 112 years that Bradley basketball has been in existence.
It is still gonna hurt Bradley for years into the future as more FALLOUT like this continues - but the proper steps are being taken now by competent people - quite unlike what we've seen for the past few years.
Go Braves!!!!
Now what appears to be the final blow - yet another denial from the Ohio Supreme Court
http://www.co.portage.oh.us/pa/imageview.asp?A962E61EFAED3F6CB909BAFDD28BCD05C105E34E0C3D849E28ECDAFA0F77AFDA2629394F633CE6D6B38B22DA77B8681D22F6EC0C5DCD13C1680DC763CD2CCA6A232296BDEC3E1397239ED01B925F411C
It appears now that Geno will be liable for the $1.2 million in damages (plus interest since 2013), but he does have a little recourse.
This is terribly unfortunate and all the fault of the reckless rush by Glasser & Cross to find any warm body to take their open coaching position back in 2011 without as consideration for common sense and legal requirements - as they rode roughshod over all precedence and violated all kinds of legal requirements and contract laws.
As was demonstrated by the documents put into evidence and publicly available, Bradley University and Dr. Glasser & Dr. Cross, gave Geno written contractual assurance in his contract that Bradley would pick up the tab for his buyout & penalties up to $400,000.
So - now Bradley's on the hook for even more costs - $400K above and beyond all the legal expenses Bradley had to spend as well as all the costs incurred with the hapless search process, the massively overpaying of Geno (and his overpaid assistants) considering the ineptitude and lack of any real winning track record or NCAA bids, and the stupendous costs of cleaning house, firing Geno, replacing him, and then buying out his & Cross' & Glasser's ridiculously bloated contracts as well.
All in all, the 4 years from the time Glasser & Cross fired Jim Les - up to the firing of the whole incompetent bunch (2011-2015) cost Bradley somewhere in the realm of $20 million down the drain for the worst four years of Bradley basketball and the worst horrific fallout that was ALL completely predicted by the smart fans who clearly knew more than those bozos in charge (or the clueless fans who had their noses up JG's butt) - in 112 years that Bradley basketball has been in existence.
It is still gonna hurt Bradley for years into the future as more FALLOUT like this continues - but the proper steps are being taken now by competent people - quite unlike what we've seen for the past few years.
Go Braves!!!!
Sunday, November 1, 2015
There is a trick to it
Bradley won the MVC Championship in both Men's & Women's Cross Country Saturday.
Kudos to the teams - great job - but there is one little trick to it. To win a team sport like XC you need depth & Cross Country has a limit on the number of scholarships you can offer.
What Bradley does is use ALL their track scholarships to recruit cross country runners.
If you don't believe it - then check the rosters for BU XC & BU Track - they are identical. So Bradley sacrifices any chance of winning track TEAM titles & always finishes last in track events - since we only do long distance.
This maneuver allows many, many more scholarships to offer in Cross Country than any other school offers - giving Bradley a huge advantage in recruiting. Huge.
It's a nice trick - and I am happy Bradley wins the Conference Championships - but one more thing..
not many of the MVC schools even takes XC that seriously or pays much to their coaches. Again - look at the performance beyond conference. Once our runners get to the NCAA Regionals then they do well but do not advance.
So for those who claim this proves anything about the last admin - well....remember there were sports winning titles under the last guy too - and a lot more regularly.
Facts are facts - the last admin was really, really bad for Bradley, but they're gone now.
Kudos to the teams - great job - but there is one little trick to it. To win a team sport like XC you need depth & Cross Country has a limit on the number of scholarships you can offer.
What Bradley does is use ALL their track scholarships to recruit cross country runners.
If you don't believe it - then check the rosters for BU XC & BU Track - they are identical. So Bradley sacrifices any chance of winning track TEAM titles & always finishes last in track events - since we only do long distance.
This maneuver allows many, many more scholarships to offer in Cross Country than any other school offers - giving Bradley a huge advantage in recruiting. Huge.
It's a nice trick - and I am happy Bradley wins the Conference Championships - but one more thing..
not many of the MVC schools even takes XC that seriously or pays much to their coaches. Again - look at the performance beyond conference. Once our runners get to the NCAA Regionals then they do well but do not advance.
So for those who claim this proves anything about the last admin - well....remember there were sports winning titles under the last guy too - and a lot more regularly.
Facts are facts - the last admin was really, really bad for Bradley, but they're gone now.
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