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.