Bradley has now lost horribly to Augustana, Texas-Arlington, and a very, very bad Robert Morris team that just got shellacked twice by 30 points or more before coming here to Peoria to pick up a seemingly easy win.
I notice even the message board of JL-haters are admitting their precious admin & AD have made a series of inexcusable and stupendous mistakes and bonehead moves.
Sadly they still think people don't notice how bad this stinking mess is or that the fans are gonna keep coming because they are trying so hard!
Changes need to made right from the top - from the Board on down or Bradley will be DIII so fast it'll happen before the PJ Star sees it coming - which wouldn't surprise anyone since they sure never saw this fiasco coming and were hooting and hollering just a week ago in the HOOPS section how tough and how good this team is.
Glasser, Cross, the coaching staff, and even the entire Board of Trustees must go...every Bradley grad and every fan I have talked to says the same thing- not giving a single cent of their money to those crooks again.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
BU fans will be glad to see 2014 go...
Lots were optimistically looking forward to 2014 - those who wanted all the housecleanings claimed when all the new coaches got their own players - we'd be competing for championships...
OK - we're here now.....how has 2014 turned out for Bradley's team sports.....?
(XC did well but even the other individual sports of golf, tennis, track - were disasters)
BUT - let's just check the team sports - the sports where game coaching matters - the sports that people actually come to see and come to cheer Bradley on...the sports where we are paying big contracts to hire those coaches that are doing this to Bradley...
In calendar year 2014, here are the records - all games/matches included:
Men's basketball: 7-14, & 7-11 in conference
Women's basketball: 6-17, & 5-13 in conference
Baseball: 24-27, & 5-16 in conference
Softball: 27-32, & 15-12 in conference
Volleyball: 1-25, &1-15 in conference
Soccer: 10-11-1, & 1-5 in conference
TOTAL - all team sports records combined for 2014...
75-126-1, and 34-72 in conference...woeful......really, really woeful....
All told - in 2014, Bradley won only 37% of their contests overall, and only 32% of their games in the MVC.
And yet there are still clueless fans and some media people who claim we are headed in the right direction!
I doubt you can find a single year where Bradley's team sports did so badly across the board - no wonder the attendance had crashed to only half of what it once was - and the number of donors, Scholarship Society members, and just people who care or who are interested - have all literally plummeted to only a small fraction of what once was...
The amazingly stupid long term contracts given to the very people, in the Athletic Dept. and coaching staffs - that have brought BU athletics to this low point are the anchor that is killing BU sports.
As recently as 2008 & 2009 Bradley basketball was winning 20 games, heading to the post-season, and commonly drawing crowds over 10,000 - even several sellouts.
The dive occurred after that despite the attempt by some to try to blame it on those who successfully raised $170 million back in the early & mid-2000's for all the improved facilities, and who helped build donations and the BSS to an enviable record level that has not and likely now will not ever be surpassed.
Read for yourself:
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=294762#post294762
Please stop looking for someone else, even fans - to blame - put the blame where it belongs - and right this sinking ship before we are indeed DIII.
OK - we're here now.....how has 2014 turned out for Bradley's team sports.....?
(XC did well but even the other individual sports of golf, tennis, track - were disasters)
BUT - let's just check the team sports - the sports where game coaching matters - the sports that people actually come to see and come to cheer Bradley on...the sports where we are paying big contracts to hire those coaches that are doing this to Bradley...
In calendar year 2014, here are the records - all games/matches included:
Men's basketball: 7-14, & 7-11 in conference
Women's basketball: 6-17, & 5-13 in conference
Baseball: 24-27, & 5-16 in conference
Softball: 27-32, & 15-12 in conference
Volleyball: 1-25, &1-15 in conference
Soccer: 10-11-1, & 1-5 in conference
TOTAL - all team sports records combined for 2014...
75-126-1, and 34-72 in conference...woeful......really, really woeful....
All told - in 2014, Bradley won only 37% of their contests overall, and only 32% of their games in the MVC.
And yet there are still clueless fans and some media people who claim we are headed in the right direction!
I doubt you can find a single year where Bradley's team sports did so badly across the board - no wonder the attendance had crashed to only half of what it once was - and the number of donors, Scholarship Society members, and just people who care or who are interested - have all literally plummeted to only a small fraction of what once was...
The amazingly stupid long term contracts given to the very people, in the Athletic Dept. and coaching staffs - that have brought BU athletics to this low point are the anchor that is killing BU sports.
As recently as 2008 & 2009 Bradley basketball was winning 20 games, heading to the post-season, and commonly drawing crowds over 10,000 - even several sellouts.
The dive occurred after that despite the attempt by some to try to blame it on those who successfully raised $170 million back in the early & mid-2000's for all the improved facilities, and who helped build donations and the BSS to an enviable record level that has not and likely now will not ever be surpassed.
Read for yourself:
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=294762#post294762
Please stop looking for someone else, even fans - to blame - put the blame where it belongs - and right this sinking ship before we are indeed DIII.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Here's why we're losing to DIII's and 300RPI directional schools
Regardless of poor play and poor coaching...a lot of it is four years of bad recruiting and terribble recruiting MISTAKES.
Hard to blame all this on someone else....
-Donivine Stewart was brought in as PG then sent packing
-Devon Hodges was brought in to help in the paint then never played & was sent packing
-Jalen Crawford was thought to be a great scorer but sent packing
-Shayok was versatile and a great scorer but sent packing
-Barnes brought in as a PF then changed to a SF/wing player - now embarrassing legal issues
-Anthony Fields brought in to play point guard - but is a flop
-Tucker signed then lost when he was kicked out of QEA Academy
-Swopshire was our next great scorer then sent packing
-Chris Blake was literally the best of the big men Geno brought in over his first FOUR years and was a starter but Geno made two horrible mistakes on Chris Blake - first he was a terrible DI player but didn't matter anyway as he wasn't eligible beyond a year and Geno did not know that! How can we NOT know that?
-Zecevic was recruited sight-unseen for his scoring ability - then sent packing when he couldn't score
-Macari Brooks was recruited & offered then the scholarship had to be withdrawn when Brooks failed to qualify - again, kinda confusing that we didn't know that...
-Kendahl Amerson was recruited as a scorer and yet GF didn't know 'til two months after he was here that he was ineligible - how does that happen? This is like the 3-4th time this kind of recruiting blunder occurred
-GF offered two dozen kids with the current open scholarship for fall 2014 - but couldn't get even one kid to bite - so we totally struck out - now back to cleaning house in the spring & reloading with whatever's left over...
-Grier was a fairly ineffective shooter his whole first season
-Ka'Darryl Bell was recruited as a point guard but it took a couple years for Geno to realize he can't play point guard - we now see complaining because we are forced to play the guy we recruited as a point guard AT POINT GUARD!
-Walt Lemon was the best shooting guard Geno has had yet he played him out of position at point guard
-the rest have been at best marginally effective and time will tell - but .....
We still lack the SAME basic three pieces that we have desperately needed since 2011...
we have NO solid point guard, no reliable 3-point shooter, and no effective low post player who can score and play some defense!
So much for the lame arguments that if we just wait long enough for the current staff to get their own players, we'd be competing for championships. Funny how the only player to give us any spirited effort last Friday was Nate Wells - the only guy the current staff cannot claim full credit for bringing in here.
Still holding out hope - but more and more hoping for the major changes that are necessary before the arena is completely empty.
Sunday, November 16, 2014
About as bad as it's ever been
Great - they solved the busy parking lot problem by driving all the fans away!!!
Basically this admin came in 6-7 years ago and chose to listen to a few whiney fans who are the squeaky wheel but who never donated a penny to the school, and some don't even have season tickets.
In pulling the knee-jerk reaction, responding to clueless fans, and cleaning house in every sport except soccer - then bringing in all new coaching staffs - many of whom never had winning seasons before - what the heck did they expect?
With basketball - the 1st clue was that after interviewing a dozen candidates, they couldn't even find one that wanted the job - even for double their prior salaries - so they were so crazed to get someone - anyone, they were even willing to run roughshod over the contract terms at Kent State - and cost themselves & Geno another $1.4 million buyout penalty.
This has been a series of almost laughable clueless moves - all the while cheered on by those fans who were intoxicated with the hope of running the last coach & AD out of town. Some held grudges because they were canned by the prior admin & some just had a bug up their **.
Well, congrats - you have destroyed a once proud basketball program - that will now take a minimum of half a decade and $3-4 million more to clean house again and get new blood in here..
Basically this admin came in 6-7 years ago and chose to listen to a few whiney fans who are the squeaky wheel but who never donated a penny to the school, and some don't even have season tickets.
In pulling the knee-jerk reaction, responding to clueless fans, and cleaning house in every sport except soccer - then bringing in all new coaching staffs - many of whom never had winning seasons before - what the heck did they expect?
With basketball - the 1st clue was that after interviewing a dozen candidates, they couldn't even find one that wanted the job - even for double their prior salaries - so they were so crazed to get someone - anyone, they were even willing to run roughshod over the contract terms at Kent State - and cost themselves & Geno another $1.4 million buyout penalty.
This has been a series of almost laughable clueless moves - all the while cheered on by those fans who were intoxicated with the hope of running the last coach & AD out of town. Some held grudges because they were canned by the prior admin & some just had a bug up their **.
Well, congrats - you have destroyed a once proud basketball program - that will now take a minimum of half a decade and $3-4 million more to clean house again and get new blood in here..
Monday, November 10, 2014
Long college careers...
Bradley has definitely been associated with a couple of the longest college careers in history..
-first - we've had TWO 6th year guys recently - Sam Singh & Will Egolf
-then we were Daniel West's first school that he chose back in 2008 when he graduated from high school in Michigan, and now seven years later - he's STILL playing for Texas A&M Commerce - which just knocked off Texas Tech in an exhibition last night
By season's end he will have played over a 7-year college career - much of it at juco & DII.
- but the winner is former BU signee Sean Harris...
he graduated high school in 2007 - this is now his 8th year "of college" - although 2 years were a mission and one was just dilly-dallying & preparing for his mission.
...so how'd get 8 years, two of which were at Yuba?
And as discussed elsewhere - Bradley does indeed have a pretty bad record of the way we treat our head basketball coaches...
Bradley's record going back 40 years has been unfortunate, but they just have NOT stood behind their coaches...
With a track record like this - ya gotta wonder if the job looks as good to candidates as it should...
Joe Stowell still wanted to coach when the program was essentially torn out of his hands...and it happened again a couple years back - and even if both cases were justified, they could have been done in a better manner.
Versace, of course, had committed a couple of incredibly minor discretions - but he wouldn't kiss-*** to the NCAA bullies and wouldn't cooperate - so despite zero evidence they claimed he was not honest - but again our admin chose NOT to stand by him so he told them to take their job & shove it - and has done quite nicely ever since. I agree with Chico - this was a situation where we could have pulled together, stood by DV and weathered the issues, and who knows...
Albeck was canned pretty unceremoniously and has never - and likely will never be back
Molinari firing might have been the harshest. Everyone knew he had a couple great recruiting classes in a row, and when he met with Broski was assured he'd get at least another year to see how he'd do with the solid young group.
Less than a week later - he read in the newspaper that the admin had bowed to the pressure from Phil Theobald & others - it was a hard way for him to find out.
He has also done quite nicely since then...and despite all the bad teams he's coached since then and made better - you don't see many 25 point blowouts!
JL, of course, was thrown down the garbage disposal on a Sunday morning after his only losing season in the prior SIX - only to read about it on a Chicago website a couple hours later.
-first - we've had TWO 6th year guys recently - Sam Singh & Will Egolf
-then we were Daniel West's first school that he chose back in 2008 when he graduated from high school in Michigan, and now seven years later - he's STILL playing for Texas A&M Commerce - which just knocked off Texas Tech in an exhibition last night
By season's end he will have played over a 7-year college career - much of it at juco & DII.
- but the winner is former BU signee Sean Harris...
he graduated high school in 2007 - this is now his 8th year "of college" - although 2 years were a mission and one was just dilly-dallying & preparing for his mission.
...so how'd get 8 years, two of which were at Yuba?
And as discussed elsewhere - Bradley does indeed have a pretty bad record of the way we treat our head basketball coaches...
Bradley's record going back 40 years has been unfortunate, but they just have NOT stood behind their coaches...
With a track record like this - ya gotta wonder if the job looks as good to candidates as it should...
Joe Stowell still wanted to coach when the program was essentially torn out of his hands...and it happened again a couple years back - and even if both cases were justified, they could have been done in a better manner.
Versace, of course, had committed a couple of incredibly minor discretions - but he wouldn't kiss-*** to the NCAA bullies and wouldn't cooperate - so despite zero evidence they claimed he was not honest - but again our admin chose NOT to stand by him so he told them to take their job & shove it - and has done quite nicely ever since. I agree with Chico - this was a situation where we could have pulled together, stood by DV and weathered the issues, and who knows...
Albeck was canned pretty unceremoniously and has never - and likely will never be back
Molinari firing might have been the harshest. Everyone knew he had a couple great recruiting classes in a row, and when he met with Broski was assured he'd get at least another year to see how he'd do with the solid young group.
Less than a week later - he read in the newspaper that the admin had bowed to the pressure from Phil Theobald & others - it was a hard way for him to find out.
He has also done quite nicely since then...and despite all the bad teams he's coached since then and made better - you don't see many 25 point blowouts!
JL, of course, was thrown down the garbage disposal on a Sunday morning after his only losing season in the prior SIX - only to read about it on a Chicago website a couple hours later.
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Speaking of programs that need turned around...
Not sure what the goal really is at BU...
they keep saying it is to compete regularly for championships at the DI level...
but it looks a whole lot more like it is just to put on a happy face..
For 70 years - since WWII - the goal in Athletics at Bradley has been to compete at the highest level and compete to play with the best and beat the best.
This was what we did in the late 40's, the 50's, the 60's, even with the limited recruiting budgets of the 70's, then we actually were among the ranked and the best in the 80's, and at times in the 90's and even as recently as 2006-2008...
We were playing with the legendary programs - Kansas, Pitt, and beating them - and getting our team on NATIONAL TV and Sports Illustrated...
This all seemed to come to a screeching halt somewhere around 2008-2010 when it became obvious that our admin wanted JL gone and forced changes were made in our Athletic & coaching staffs
(Ken Kavanagh was forced out, then Chuck Buescher, Eric Buescher, Alvin Brooks, then Jim Les were all forced out - then new hires were brought in for every sport except soccer)
..so they could engineer what they wanted -
Well, at some point - now 7 years into the JG era & 5 years into the Mike Cross era - (recall, the last five years that coincide with the first five years of the Mike Cross era have been the worse 5-year span in Bradley basketball history)
It's time someone asks - are we better off as they promised? Or have the changes been complete failures?
Just sayin'...don't blame the messenger - most of the messengers are just trying to throw 'em a life line...
they keep saying it is to compete regularly for championships at the DI level...
but it looks a whole lot more like it is just to put on a happy face..
For 70 years - since WWII - the goal in Athletics at Bradley has been to compete at the highest level and compete to play with the best and beat the best.
This was what we did in the late 40's, the 50's, the 60's, even with the limited recruiting budgets of the 70's, then we actually were among the ranked and the best in the 80's, and at times in the 90's and even as recently as 2006-2008...
We were playing with the legendary programs - Kansas, Pitt, and beating them - and getting our team on NATIONAL TV and Sports Illustrated...
This all seemed to come to a screeching halt somewhere around 2008-2010 when it became obvious that our admin wanted JL gone and forced changes were made in our Athletic & coaching staffs
(Ken Kavanagh was forced out, then Chuck Buescher, Eric Buescher, Alvin Brooks, then Jim Les were all forced out - then new hires were brought in for every sport except soccer)
..so they could engineer what they wanted -
Well, at some point - now 7 years into the JG era & 5 years into the Mike Cross era - (recall, the last five years that coincide with the first five years of the Mike Cross era have been the worse 5-year span in Bradley basketball history)
It's time someone asks - are we better off as they promised? Or have the changes been complete failures?
Just sayin'...don't blame the messenger - most of the messengers are just trying to throw 'em a life line...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Tom Crean - entire program out of control again
Fact - Kelvin Sampson was fired by Indiana in February of 2008.
Tom Crean was hired right at the beginning of April 2008, and all the major player issues there at Indiana were just starting and continued largely into the first several months of the Tom Crean era...
In fact - one of the harshest critics now is Dan Dakich - but guess who was in 100% FULL control of the IU program as acting head coach when the majority of those disastrous issues were erupting - yup - it was Dan Dakich. Dakich also has harbored a grudge ever since as he thought he should have had a shot at the head coaching position.
So after Bassett & Ellis were booted in 2008 at the request of Crean - all the rest of those guys who were run out - were the exclusive doings of Crean - so he knew what he was getting into and was being paid handsomely to do it - so don't blame everyone else.
So Crean is no stranger to multiple player drug, alcohol, and arrest issues. Add to that - a few of his early recruits were troubled kids as well (Devan Dumes) -
Read more here-
http://bubravesblogger.blogspot.com/2010/12/debunking-myths-againindiana-beaten.html
Now, after Tom Crean finally nabbed a few great recruits (Zeller, Oladipo..) and had a a couple Sweet Sixteen runs - now he's got some big problems...
Over just the last 6 months or so at least four players have alcohol related arrests and other issues.
http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2014/11/03/doyel-crean-failing-these-hoosiers-on-and-off-court/18439637/
A big hunk of IU fans are already gearing up for the inevitable - that Crean may be on the way out..
In fact - a whole lot of people had him on the HOT SEAT even before all these latest player issues.
Problem is, that it may take $12 to even as high as $15 million to buy out his remaining contract.
http://www.btpowerhouse.com/2014/6/30/5826622/tom-crean-indiana-hoosiers-basketball-hot-seat-fire
Tom Crean was hired right at the beginning of April 2008, and all the major player issues there at Indiana were just starting and continued largely into the first several months of the Tom Crean era...
In fact - one of the harshest critics now is Dan Dakich - but guess who was in 100% FULL control of the IU program as acting head coach when the majority of those disastrous issues were erupting - yup - it was Dan Dakich. Dakich also has harbored a grudge ever since as he thought he should have had a shot at the head coaching position.
So after Bassett & Ellis were booted in 2008 at the request of Crean - all the rest of those guys who were run out - were the exclusive doings of Crean - so he knew what he was getting into and was being paid handsomely to do it - so don't blame everyone else.
So Crean is no stranger to multiple player drug, alcohol, and arrest issues. Add to that - a few of his early recruits were troubled kids as well (Devan Dumes) -
Read more here-
http://bubravesblogger.blogspot.com/2010/12/debunking-myths-againindiana-beaten.html
Now, after Tom Crean finally nabbed a few great recruits (Zeller, Oladipo..) and had a a couple Sweet Sixteen runs - now he's got some big problems...
Over just the last 6 months or so at least four players have alcohol related arrests and other issues.
http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2014/11/03/doyel-crean-failing-these-hoosiers-on-and-off-court/18439637/
A big hunk of IU fans are already gearing up for the inevitable - that Crean may be on the way out..
In fact - a whole lot of people had him on the HOT SEAT even before all these latest player issues.
Problem is, that it may take $12 to even as high as $15 million to buy out his remaining contract.
http://www.btpowerhouse.com/2014/6/30/5826622/tom-crean-indiana-hoosiers-basketball-hot-seat-fire
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Comparison of all four of the Finalist candidates from Bradley's 2002 coaching search
As most will recall - Bradley went through a long and complicated search process in 2002 to find a head coach. More than 70 candidates had applied and were considered, then after the field was narrowed, at least a dozen underwent early interviews.
Then a few withdrew - and finally four finalists were brought on to campus to be intensely interviewed by the search committee.
Those four were:
Brian Gregory
James Jones
Jim Les
Wayne McClain
In the intervening twelve seasons since that search process, each of those four have had multiple coaching jobs, except for James Jones who remains in the same position as he had in 2002, head coach at Yale.
Here are some simple stats & numbers on how each of those four 2002 finalists have some since 2002:
TOTAL Division I wins as a head coach:
Brian Gregory 215
James Jones 171
Jim Les 182
Wayne McClain 0
Total wins in conference:
Brian Gregory 86
James Jones 94
Jim Les 90
Wayne McClain 0
(James Jones is the only one with a conference winning pct. about .500)
Total post season wins:
Brian Gregory 8
James Jones 3 (all in CIT)
Jim Les 11
Wayne McClain 0
TOTAL NCAA wins
Brian Gregory 1
James Jones 0
Jim Les 2
Wayne McClain 0
none of the other candidates were were even in the top dozen of so in 2002 have done any better...
For comparison, in D-I, Geno Ford has 105 career wins, 51 career wins in conference, has 3 post-season wins, zero NCAA wins, and is also not above .500 in career conference record.
Highlighting James Jones - he is now entering his 16th year at Yale, he has never won their league either in the regular season or tourney, and he has never been to the NCAA.
However - he has finished 2nd, 3rd, or 4th fourteen years in a row in the Ivy League.
They are happy with him and obviously keeping him at Yale has been the RIGHT move...even though I am sure there are fans that are disgruntled and claim he's never won big nor made the NCAA.
I think we can see that a lot of mid-majors make bad moves by cleaning house every few years and starting over - only to never get back where they were.
And we also have fans who are still whining & pining over not hiring some other guy back in 2002!
Certainly some of Bradley fans' BEST memories came in the mid-90's (Molinari years) - and in the mid-2000's (Les years) and there's been absolutely zero good memories since.
No quality wins, and an inordinate amount of lopsided and embarrassing losses.
Just maybe those who stumped for coaching changes each of the past couple decades steered us wrong.
It's been like cutting our heads off to spite our faces. Going from bad to worse...
Then a few withdrew - and finally four finalists were brought on to campus to be intensely interviewed by the search committee.
Those four were:
Brian Gregory
James Jones
Jim Les
Wayne McClain
In the intervening twelve seasons since that search process, each of those four have had multiple coaching jobs, except for James Jones who remains in the same position as he had in 2002, head coach at Yale.
Here are some simple stats & numbers on how each of those four 2002 finalists have some since 2002:
TOTAL Division I wins as a head coach:
Brian Gregory 215
James Jones 171
Jim Les 182
Wayne McClain 0
Total wins in conference:
Brian Gregory 86
James Jones 94
Jim Les 90
Wayne McClain 0
(James Jones is the only one with a conference winning pct. about .500)
Total post season wins:
Brian Gregory 8
James Jones 3 (all in CIT)
Jim Les 11
Wayne McClain 0
TOTAL NCAA wins
Brian Gregory 1
James Jones 0
Jim Les 2
Wayne McClain 0
none of the other candidates were were even in the top dozen of so in 2002 have done any better...
For comparison, in D-I, Geno Ford has 105 career wins, 51 career wins in conference, has 3 post-season wins, zero NCAA wins, and is also not above .500 in career conference record.
Highlighting James Jones - he is now entering his 16th year at Yale, he has never won their league either in the regular season or tourney, and he has never been to the NCAA.
However - he has finished 2nd, 3rd, or 4th fourteen years in a row in the Ivy League.
They are happy with him and obviously keeping him at Yale has been the RIGHT move...even though I am sure there are fans that are disgruntled and claim he's never won big nor made the NCAA.
I think we can see that a lot of mid-majors make bad moves by cleaning house every few years and starting over - only to never get back where they were.
And we also have fans who are still whining & pining over not hiring some other guy back in 2002!
Certainly some of Bradley fans' BEST memories came in the mid-90's (Molinari years) - and in the mid-2000's (Les years) and there's been absolutely zero good memories since.
No quality wins, and an inordinate amount of lopsided and embarrassing losses.
Just maybe those who stumped for coaching changes each of the past couple decades steered us wrong.
It's been like cutting our heads off to spite our faces. Going from bad to worse...
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Breaking Cheating Scandals in College Sports
It's getting kind of hard to keep track of all the major cheating scandals and NCAA investigations, so I thought I'd condense them all into one thread..
Here's the latest ones.....
Syracuse - just breaking - is being investigated by NCAA for massive cheating as well - but it's been going on for years and NCAA has dragged their feet endlessly.
http://www.syracuse.com/orangefootball/index.ssf/2014/10/syracuse_ncaa_investigation_football_program_wide-ranging_inquiry.html
North Carolina football & basketball have been caught cheating and using phony & fraudulent classes to give players grades even though they are flunking and ineligible. By all rights the NCAA has to come down hard on this and shut them down completely.
But I suspect they will severely criticize someone from the past, dock them a few games forfeited, then claim they've done their job and everything else is OK.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=21370
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=298737#post298737
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/22/us/unc-report-academic-fraud/index.html
Texas A&M - http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/8/28/4668634/johnny-manziel-suspended-texas-a-m
Florida State - http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2230563-jameis-winston-reportedly-facing-investigation-over-signing-autographs-for-money
Georgia - http://www.businessinsider.com/todd-gurley-autograph-scandal-2014-10
...are all cases of players getting exposed for massive extra benefits violations and getting paid - NCAA has so far been almost invisible in all of this....I guess they're too busy flying all their field agents & investigators out to small schools whose players inadvertently were paid a few bucks more at a summer job than they should have been.
Penn State had massive scandals but not really cheating and yet got clobbered with sanctions - much of which were then quietly cancelled
http://theweek.com/speedreads/index/267742/speedreads-ncaa-drops-penn-state-punishments-handed-down-over-child-abuse-scandal
Other scandals at
Ole Miss - http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/ole-miss-football/ole-miss-ncaa-investigation-2014/
Oklahoma State
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/2014/10/21/ncaa-report-cheating-oklahoma-state-unfounded/17681913/
Oregon
http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2014/08/oregon_ducks_football_violatio.html
Wichita State - http://www.kansas.com/sports/college/wichita-state/article2248275.html
Hawaii - http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/25545820/ben-jay-statement-on-ncaa
Iowa, Iowa State, & UNI - http://archive.hawkcentral.com/2014/05/28/special-report-ncaa-violations-by-iowa-isu-and-uni-in-the-past-year/
Ohio State - http://thelantern.com/2014/04/ohio-state-athletics-nearly-double-self-reported-violations-compared-closest-conference-rival/
...... round out the rest of the ones I had heard about this past year....
Then, of course, news that the two biggest repeat cheaters in all of amateur sports - Bruce Paerl & Kelvin Sampson are back coaching in college basketball...
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10996097/bruce-pearl-kelvin-sampson-road-coaching-redemption
other than these - it's actually been kinda quiet on the cheating front...
Here's the latest ones.....
Syracuse - just breaking - is being investigated by NCAA for massive cheating as well - but it's been going on for years and NCAA has dragged their feet endlessly.
http://www.syracuse.com/orangefootball/index.ssf/2014/10/syracuse_ncaa_investigation_football_program_wide-ranging_inquiry.html
North Carolina football & basketball have been caught cheating and using phony & fraudulent classes to give players grades even though they are flunking and ineligible. By all rights the NCAA has to come down hard on this and shut them down completely.
But I suspect they will severely criticize someone from the past, dock them a few games forfeited, then claim they've done their job and everything else is OK.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=21370
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=298737#post298737
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/22/us/unc-report-academic-fraud/index.html
Texas A&M - http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/8/28/4668634/johnny-manziel-suspended-texas-a-m
Florida State - http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2230563-jameis-winston-reportedly-facing-investigation-over-signing-autographs-for-money
Georgia - http://www.businessinsider.com/todd-gurley-autograph-scandal-2014-10
...are all cases of players getting exposed for massive extra benefits violations and getting paid - NCAA has so far been almost invisible in all of this....I guess they're too busy flying all their field agents & investigators out to small schools whose players inadvertently were paid a few bucks more at a summer job than they should have been.
Penn State had massive scandals but not really cheating and yet got clobbered with sanctions - much of which were then quietly cancelled
http://theweek.com/speedreads/index/267742/speedreads-ncaa-drops-penn-state-punishments-handed-down-over-child-abuse-scandal
Other scandals at
Ole Miss - http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/ole-miss-football/ole-miss-ncaa-investigation-2014/
Oklahoma State
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/2014/10/21/ncaa-report-cheating-oklahoma-state-unfounded/17681913/
Oregon
http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2014/08/oregon_ducks_football_violatio.html
Wichita State - http://www.kansas.com/sports/college/wichita-state/article2248275.html
Hawaii - http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/25545820/ben-jay-statement-on-ncaa
Iowa, Iowa State, & UNI - http://archive.hawkcentral.com/2014/05/28/special-report-ncaa-violations-by-iowa-isu-and-uni-in-the-past-year/
Ohio State - http://thelantern.com/2014/04/ohio-state-athletics-nearly-double-self-reported-violations-compared-closest-conference-rival/
...... round out the rest of the ones I had heard about this past year....
Then, of course, news that the two biggest repeat cheaters in all of amateur sports - Bruce Paerl & Kelvin Sampson are back coaching in college basketball...
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10996097/bruce-pearl-kelvin-sampson-road-coaching-redemption
other than these - it's actually been kinda quiet on the cheating front...
Friday, October 3, 2014
Ranking the serious off-court issues
How would people rank the most troubling off-court issues we have had with the basketball program in the past 10-12 years?
If you take into account arrests & suspensions then I would doubt many can deny that the worst four offenses are (in no particular order):
-the 2008 case of Ruffin for similar circumstances
-the drug arrest in January that resulted in a 4-game suspension
-this current arrest, imprisonment, and charges for domestic battery
-the serious academic issue that resulted in a 4-game suspension to start the 2013-14 season (it was a serious academic violation for which most always students are expelled!) - and yet this violation got just one tiny mention in the press!
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20131112/SPORTS/131119756/2000/NEWS
No other issue I can recall resulted in even more than a 1-2 game suspension and none that I am aware of resulted in imprisonment or any protracted legal proceedings....
If you disagree and think there are some other examples - then please feel free to present your case.
In analyzing them, three have happened just within the past year - so one could definitely wonder if we are seeing a pattern of increasing frequency of serious off-court issues.
Then - two (the first two listed) got tons and tons of fast, frequent, and furious press coverage .. while the 2nd two got extremely little attention by the media.
I can understand why the 4th one got very little press, since that violation was not a matter of any public record and the school has the privacy obligation - although pretty much every BU fan who is anywhere close to being "in the loop" knows exactly why Prosser was disciplined.
So, as you can see - the only serious off court legal issue that got little publicity - is this current one. And why are we seeing an accelerating pattern of serious issues and suspensions...
We now have more than a dozen player suspensions, and four consecutive seasons starting with player suspensions...and one incident of four players simultaneously getting suspended.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=263171&postcount=3
Once before we had the infamous "renegade program" column by the local press when we had merely three incidents - two of which were extremely minor - and one was four years earlier!
Now we're having major issues & arrests close together - three of the worst four issues in over a decade all happening in the past year - why no interest from the media?
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=297356#post297356
If you take into account arrests & suspensions then I would doubt many can deny that the worst four offenses are (in no particular order):
-the 2008 case of Ruffin for similar circumstances
-the drug arrest in January that resulted in a 4-game suspension
-this current arrest, imprisonment, and charges for domestic battery
-the serious academic issue that resulted in a 4-game suspension to start the 2013-14 season (it was a serious academic violation for which most always students are expelled!) - and yet this violation got just one tiny mention in the press!
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20131112/SPORTS/131119756/2000/NEWS
No other issue I can recall resulted in even more than a 1-2 game suspension and none that I am aware of resulted in imprisonment or any protracted legal proceedings....
If you disagree and think there are some other examples - then please feel free to present your case.
In analyzing them, three have happened just within the past year - so one could definitely wonder if we are seeing a pattern of increasing frequency of serious off-court issues.
Then - two (the first two listed) got tons and tons of fast, frequent, and furious press coverage .. while the 2nd two got extremely little attention by the media.
I can understand why the 4th one got very little press, since that violation was not a matter of any public record and the school has the privacy obligation - although pretty much every BU fan who is anywhere close to being "in the loop" knows exactly why Prosser was disciplined.
So, as you can see - the only serious off court legal issue that got little publicity - is this current one. And why are we seeing an accelerating pattern of serious issues and suspensions...
We now have more than a dozen player suspensions, and four consecutive seasons starting with player suspensions...and one incident of four players simultaneously getting suspended.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=263171&postcount=3
Once before we had the infamous "renegade program" column by the local press when we had merely three incidents - two of which were extremely minor - and one was four years earlier!
Now we're having major issues & arrests close together - three of the worst four issues in over a decade all happening in the past year - why no interest from the media?
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=297356#post297356
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Hypocrisy? Just an interesting comparison - you decide
Here are the very words of the PJ Star sports editor. There is no opinion involved, his own words speak for himself.
- "When did I start to sour on Jim Les?
I'd say the souring was a process, but the start would have been an overall poor taste in my mouth after his second season.
- "When did I start to sour on Jim Les?
I'd say the souring was a process, but the start would have been an overall poor taste in my mouth after his second season.
.. They were seriously flawed, lacked discipline, didn't play good defense, and weren't on the same page. ........ team chemistry is bad, and stuff happens and even a great coach can't find a way to hold it all together.
.. I think Les could have done a better job managing the personnel in the second year .....end of year 3, and ... I found it unacceptable. After those failures led to yet another opening-night exit from the play-in round of the MVC tourney, yes, I dropped a critical hammer on Les and his program."
http://www.pjstarforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=88481&p=1186602#p1186602
So, the opinion of our local media started to sour in year two and was complete by year three and he turned critical & dropped the hammer...yet the reasons sound eerily like what we see right now, so is he souring again?? Doubtful if you read what's being written.
Then later - here's what he said...
2010:
"How hot is the seat under Jim Les?
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20101010/News/310109958
Then after admitting he turned against Jim Les in YEAR TWO - before Coach Les even had the opportunity to land his own players and get players who could or WOULD play his system, he followed up with continual swipes until finally he got his way...
And those attacks did not cease even though Coach Les brought Bradley & fans a few of the very best years we have had in half a century!
then in 2011...
"Out of optimism for Jim Les"
..a column in 2011 where he demanded Les must go, after just ONE losing season - Les' first and ONLY Thursday appearance in St. Louis since getting his own players.
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20110303/News/303039892
He railed at JL even tho Les had a winning record, a record of 102-41 at home (.741) better than every coach BU has ever had for more than 2 seasons!
He railed on attendance sliding towards 7, 400 (guffaw - as it now dwindles down around 4000-5000),
There were SCARCE, infrequent, and minor off the court issues as compared to plenty of them now,
And the future hardly looks bright with nobody yet wanting to take any of the open scholarships we have currently for 2015 - and no sure scoring threat returning this year - most players recovering from major joint surgery, broken bones, and arrests with impending suspensions.
This will be the fourth consecutive season (all four under current head coach Geno Ford) in which we will begin the season with at least 1 or 2 or even FOUR players on suspensions.
And yet the hypocrisy is that when it happened to the last coach the souring began in year two - but with the current staff we're heading into year four with the PJS cheerleaders continuing their mantra that they've chanted for the past three years about how we're "light years" better, maybe one recruiting-miss away, on the verge, or just need SEVERAL more seasons of status quo ...
Hmmm....all fans ask is be consistent - apply the same standards as before....
The fans see the hypocrisy - readership of the PJS is plummeting - the Journal Star staff layoffs roll on - as a
couple times each year we hear about more being let go....
But it mirrors the attendance at BU games - it's the double whammy --- sales of tickets are WAY, WAY down - crowds in the 5000's announced !!!
But we all know the truth is even way worse as half those seats are empty...some of last year's home games at Carver had as few as 3000, Some up on campus had as few as 1000!
but it will get worse.....although we all know what's coming....
-excuses about why we are still bad this year - GF's FOURTH with all his own new players - although many are just what's currently here with this game of musical roster - reloading every spring.
we will hear alibi's about how there were just too many new guys, too many injuries -- we need to give them more time....
- but then 2015-16 almost everyone (if they don't get booted or Creaned before then) on the roster will be a senior and we should have a good year - but if not, it'll be another truckload of excuses fabricated by the cheerleading local press.
- the question then becomes - how bad does it have to get before the people with agendas finally admit massive and proper changes need to take place emanating from above.... and not just shuffling from below and elevating some assistant
Lastly - let's go back to those criteria we've heard many times from Dr. Cross...
mainly the one about competing for championships.....
Well - I have a question .. in the five years Dr, Cross has been at the help - what program has ever competed for a championship??
We have some good success in soccer, but that's hardly new - although if anything can be seen, that success is quickly becoming less evident...
we also have a couple tourney wins for softball - coming from low seeds to get a bid despite a mediocre season where it can hardly be said we competed for a championship - but anyway, once in the NCAA we bowed out early and badly.
Nope - don't see any hint of those promises we'd be competing for championships - we were far closer back in 2006, 2007 or so than we are now...but we fired all the guys who got us there then - and nobody since had had much success.
And all the revenue successes from then are gone - now a huge debt problem and overspending problem is about to sink the ship as the very lifeblood of all of BU sports - the BASKETBALL season ticket fan base is disappearing faster than the businesses up at the Main & University intersection that all hate the traffic rebuild.
http://www.pjstarforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=88481&p=1186602#p1186602
So, the opinion of our local media started to sour in year two and was complete by year three and he turned critical & dropped the hammer...yet the reasons sound eerily like what we see right now, so is he souring again?? Doubtful if you read what's being written.
Then later - here's what he said...
2010:
"How hot is the seat under Jim Les?
..BU athletics director Michael Cross ..did explain...the process he uses to evaluate the coaches and programs in his department. There are five components to the process:
1. The educational experience of the athletes.
2. Living within your budget and being part of the process to enhance those resources.
3. Team environment, which includes off-court behavior, transfers in and out. More specifically, Cross said, “Is there constant angst every other day, are you constantly dealing with crises, or is there a stable, values-based culture that everyone is comfortable with and Bradley would expect?”
4. Compliance with NCAA, conference and university rules, and with federal, state and local laws
5. "The extent to which you’re competing for championships,” Cross said.
He also said this:
“Any one of those things can save you, and any one can sink you. There’s no absolute formula, no exact answers. It’s all those things combined.Take Cross at his word and realize that a more important assessment is whether the Braves compete for a Valley title. Really compete."
Then after admitting he turned against Jim Les in YEAR TWO - before Coach Les even had the opportunity to land his own players and get players who could or WOULD play his system, he followed up with continual swipes until finally he got his way...
And those attacks did not cease even though Coach Les brought Bradley & fans a few of the very best years we have had in half a century!
then in 2011...
"Out of optimism for Jim Les"
..a column in 2011 where he demanded Les must go, after just ONE losing season - Les' first and ONLY Thursday appearance in St. Louis since getting his own players.
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20110303/News/303039892
He railed at JL even tho Les had a winning record, a record of 102-41 at home (.741) better than every coach BU has ever had for more than 2 seasons!
He railed on attendance sliding towards 7, 400 (guffaw - as it now dwindles down around 4000-5000),
There were SCARCE, infrequent, and minor off the court issues as compared to plenty of them now,
And the future hardly looks bright with nobody yet wanting to take any of the open scholarships we have currently for 2015 - and no sure scoring threat returning this year - most players recovering from major joint surgery, broken bones, and arrests with impending suspensions.
This will be the fourth consecutive season (all four under current head coach Geno Ford) in which we will begin the season with at least 1 or 2 or even FOUR players on suspensions.
And yet the hypocrisy is that when it happened to the last coach the souring began in year two - but with the current staff we're heading into year four with the PJS cheerleaders continuing their mantra that they've chanted for the past three years about how we're "light years" better, maybe one recruiting-miss away, on the verge, or just need SEVERAL more seasons of status quo ...
Hmmm....all fans ask is be consistent - apply the same standards as before....
The fans see the hypocrisy - readership of the PJS is plummeting - the Journal Star staff layoffs roll on - as a
couple times each year we hear about more being let go....
But it mirrors the attendance at BU games - it's the double whammy --- sales of tickets are WAY, WAY down - crowds in the 5000's announced !!!
But we all know the truth is even way worse as half those seats are empty...some of last year's home games at Carver had as few as 3000, Some up on campus had as few as 1000!
but it will get worse.....although we all know what's coming....
-excuses about why we are still bad this year - GF's FOURTH with all his own new players - although many are just what's currently here with this game of musical roster - reloading every spring.
we will hear alibi's about how there were just too many new guys, too many injuries -- we need to give them more time....
- but then 2015-16 almost everyone (if they don't get booted or Creaned before then) on the roster will be a senior and we should have a good year - but if not, it'll be another truckload of excuses fabricated by the cheerleading local press.
- the question then becomes - how bad does it have to get before the people with agendas finally admit massive and proper changes need to take place emanating from above.... and not just shuffling from below and elevating some assistant
Lastly - let's go back to those criteria we've heard many times from Dr. Cross...
mainly the one about competing for championships.....
Well - I have a question .. in the five years Dr, Cross has been at the help - what program has ever competed for a championship??
We have some good success in soccer, but that's hardly new - although if anything can be seen, that success is quickly becoming less evident...
we also have a couple tourney wins for softball - coming from low seeds to get a bid despite a mediocre season where it can hardly be said we competed for a championship - but anyway, once in the NCAA we bowed out early and badly.
Nope - don't see any hint of those promises we'd be competing for championships - we were far closer back in 2006, 2007 or so than we are now...but we fired all the guys who got us there then - and nobody since had had much success.
And all the revenue successes from then are gone - now a huge debt problem and overspending problem is about to sink the ship as the very lifeblood of all of BU sports - the BASKETBALL season ticket fan base is disappearing faster than the businesses up at the Main & University intersection that all hate the traffic rebuild.
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Text of e mail release regarding BU finances
Dear members of the campus community,
In today’s higher education environment, most public and private universities across the country have encountered challenges in student enrollment and institutional finances. Demographic changes in the number of potential students, dramatic reductions in federal and state assistance for higher education and rising costs for university operations are primary contributors to these challenges.
A few weeks ago we reported 970 freshmen deposits for our Fall 2014 enrollment, which is less than had been forecasted and anticipated. The class, however, is academically strong and there was no compromising of quality. Because of this smaller than anticipated class, we have assessed the related financial consequences for the University, met with our Board of Trustees, and developed an action plan to guide us for the 2014-15 academic year and beyond.
The size of this class presents a more than $2 million negative financial effect on our operating margins, requiring that we adjust our expenses to present a balanced budget to the Board of Trustees at their July meeting. Furthermore, we realize that to provide opportunities for campus investment in our programs, faculty and staff, and to provide sustainable positive operating margins, we need to make a strategic reduction in our cost structure approaching 5% (an amount exceeding $5 million). In addition, our auxiliary operations (dining, housing and intercollegiate athletics) will reduce expenses by an additional $1.8 million to help ensure their collective self-sufficiency. The 5% strategic reductions coupled with the $1.8 million auxiliary operating changes will be implemented this summer to provide a balanced 2014-15 budget. Unfortunately, we believe that our anticipated 2014-15 enrollment (which is similar to two of the last three years) represents a new enrollment baseline; a smaller baseline creating declines in revenue that future increases in tuition will not fully offset. Our planning incorporates these assumptions.
However, there is more to do than reduce costs, as the market and demographic trends are telling us higher education is at a “tipping point.” These financial changes are required, but there are also essential operating issues to address in three broad areas-- a) finances, b) programs, and c) student enrollment to help ensure our excellent education and outcomes are relevant in a rapidly changing higher education environment.
I have established three Presidential advisory groups who will report to me. Each will be commissioned with specific responsibilities, act with urgency, and advise me with a long term view as follows:
Finances and budget group:
Our campus revenues are relied upon to support our many needs and initiatives, and I have confirmed the involvement of Paul Wayvon (Accounting faculty and Chair of the University Resources Committee), Dean Darrell Radson and Gary Anna to help confirm our budgeting procedures, fiscal structures, and financial processes are transparent examples of best practices. In addition, I have charged this advisory group to assess our faculty salary structures in order to align resources in a way that eventually responds to the marketplace disparities we know exist.
Program review and delivery group:
Some of our campus programs are in need of a financial viability review. Additionally, opportunities exist for diversifying our strategies for academic program delivery—including leveraging technology based learning to greatly expand our reach in graduate programs, summer curriculum and other academic opportunities. Assessments that have already been performed will be further refined, and during the summer Dean Lex Akers, Dr. Kurt Field, and colleagues will construct the criterial components and a process for program review. This undertaking will allow the University Senate Strategic Planning Committee to convene immediately in Fall, 2014, to review the work completed, and to further assess campus programs through our system of shared governance. The Provost will be significantly involved with this endeavor.
Enrollment management, branding and marketing group:
Bradley’s viability has always revolved around our students and their interests, qualities, characteristics and ultimately as successful graduates and engaged alumni. This advisory group of Paul Schroeder, Susan Andrews, Dean Jeffrey Huberman and Dr. Justin Ball will continue to aggressively examine the multiple interrelated factors that impact student recruitment and our branding and marketing position. Demographics clearly indicate our past is not our future and the status quo is not acceptable. The marketplace for student recruiting in our region and beyond is the most competitive it has ever been and is likely to only increase. Our enrollment management professionals will lead this activity with meaningful campus involvement.
Each of these advisory groups has authority to involve members of the campus community as needed, to provide inquisitive perspectives and responsible insights that will assist me in fulfilling my responsibilities as President. I have received the encouragement and support of Bradley’s Board of Trustees for these activities, and I will provide monthly progress reports to the Board.
While this will not be an easy undertaking, I am compelled to ensure we have an engaged campus that understands the urgency and importance of our assessments and resulting actions. The activities of the advisory groups are to begin immediately with expectation that measurable outcomes and corrective measures will begin to occur during the summer and completed in the upcoming academic year. The opportunities we now face, and the changes we prepare to implement, can position Bradley to be ultimately successful and sustainable in the years ahead.
I have the utmost confidence that our University is comprised of knowledgeable, caring and committed people who will help us continue Bradley’s legacy and provide for a reimagined future.
Warm regards,
Joanne Glasser
President
In today’s higher education environment, most public and private universities across the country have encountered challenges in student enrollment and institutional finances. Demographic changes in the number of potential students, dramatic reductions in federal and state assistance for higher education and rising costs for university operations are primary contributors to these challenges.
A few weeks ago we reported 970 freshmen deposits for our Fall 2014 enrollment, which is less than had been forecasted and anticipated. The class, however, is academically strong and there was no compromising of quality. Because of this smaller than anticipated class, we have assessed the related financial consequences for the University, met with our Board of Trustees, and developed an action plan to guide us for the 2014-15 academic year and beyond.
The size of this class presents a more than $2 million negative financial effect on our operating margins, requiring that we adjust our expenses to present a balanced budget to the Board of Trustees at their July meeting. Furthermore, we realize that to provide opportunities for campus investment in our programs, faculty and staff, and to provide sustainable positive operating margins, we need to make a strategic reduction in our cost structure approaching 5% (an amount exceeding $5 million). In addition, our auxiliary operations (dining, housing and intercollegiate athletics) will reduce expenses by an additional $1.8 million to help ensure their collective self-sufficiency. The 5% strategic reductions coupled with the $1.8 million auxiliary operating changes will be implemented this summer to provide a balanced 2014-15 budget. Unfortunately, we believe that our anticipated 2014-15 enrollment (which is similar to two of the last three years) represents a new enrollment baseline; a smaller baseline creating declines in revenue that future increases in tuition will not fully offset. Our planning incorporates these assumptions.
However, there is more to do than reduce costs, as the market and demographic trends are telling us higher education is at a “tipping point.” These financial changes are required, but there are also essential operating issues to address in three broad areas-- a) finances, b) programs, and c) student enrollment to help ensure our excellent education and outcomes are relevant in a rapidly changing higher education environment.
I have established three Presidential advisory groups who will report to me. Each will be commissioned with specific responsibilities, act with urgency, and advise me with a long term view as follows:
Finances and budget group:
Our campus revenues are relied upon to support our many needs and initiatives, and I have confirmed the involvement of Paul Wayvon (Accounting faculty and Chair of the University Resources Committee), Dean Darrell Radson and Gary Anna to help confirm our budgeting procedures, fiscal structures, and financial processes are transparent examples of best practices. In addition, I have charged this advisory group to assess our faculty salary structures in order to align resources in a way that eventually responds to the marketplace disparities we know exist.
Program review and delivery group:
Some of our campus programs are in need of a financial viability review. Additionally, opportunities exist for diversifying our strategies for academic program delivery—including leveraging technology based learning to greatly expand our reach in graduate programs, summer curriculum and other academic opportunities. Assessments that have already been performed will be further refined, and during the summer Dean Lex Akers, Dr. Kurt Field, and colleagues will construct the criterial components and a process for program review. This undertaking will allow the University Senate Strategic Planning Committee to convene immediately in Fall, 2014, to review the work completed, and to further assess campus programs through our system of shared governance. The Provost will be significantly involved with this endeavor.
Enrollment management, branding and marketing group:
Bradley’s viability has always revolved around our students and their interests, qualities, characteristics and ultimately as successful graduates and engaged alumni. This advisory group of Paul Schroeder, Susan Andrews, Dean Jeffrey Huberman and Dr. Justin Ball will continue to aggressively examine the multiple interrelated factors that impact student recruitment and our branding and marketing position. Demographics clearly indicate our past is not our future and the status quo is not acceptable. The marketplace for student recruiting in our region and beyond is the most competitive it has ever been and is likely to only increase. Our enrollment management professionals will lead this activity with meaningful campus involvement.
Each of these advisory groups has authority to involve members of the campus community as needed, to provide inquisitive perspectives and responsible insights that will assist me in fulfilling my responsibilities as President. I have received the encouragement and support of Bradley’s Board of Trustees for these activities, and I will provide monthly progress reports to the Board.
While this will not be an easy undertaking, I am compelled to ensure we have an engaged campus that understands the urgency and importance of our assessments and resulting actions. The activities of the advisory groups are to begin immediately with expectation that measurable outcomes and corrective measures will begin to occur during the summer and completed in the upcoming academic year. The opportunities we now face, and the changes we prepare to implement, can position Bradley to be ultimately successful and sustainable in the years ahead.
I have the utmost confidence that our University is comprised of knowledgeable, caring and committed people who will help us continue Bradley’s legacy and provide for a reimagined future.
Warm regards,
Joanne Glasser
President
Saturday, December 14, 2013
There are some moves that predictably will hurt attendance -
Where some teams are seeing an increase in attendance, and others stability - some have seen a drop like BU has...
Here are just a few examples we may be able to learn from..
-Winning is NOT a guarantee that attendance will surge. No team in college basketball wins more at home than Kentucky - but there are fans who see their players are just passing thru - the one-and-dones, hardly know most of their names - guess what...
Kentucky's home attendance has shown a significant drop in the past few years that Calipari has been running the NBA-prep route..
huge changeovers, unfamiliar players, "rebuilding" each year, and players who are not committed to the program .....
http://johnclay.bloginky.com/2013/12/11/believe-it-or-not-uk-basketball-attendance-declining/
-Arkansas wins a lot at home and spent millions on their new head coach, and they are the ONLY show in town....but....Arkansas scheduled HORRIBLYand most of their home opponents are 180, 200 and worse, 300+ in RPI - people are staying home!
http://www.arkansasfight.com/2013/12/12/5203920/trough-talk-what-can-be-done-to-increase-razorback-basketball
-Likewise Arizona State - disappointing attendance for games like Maryland-Baltimore County
-Mizzou jacked their ticket prices to gouge the people who wanted to see UCLA come to town - and then the Mizzou people were stunned to see only 8000 people show up (arena capacity > 15,000) for such a high profile opponent - but then they had jacked the price of even the cheap seats from $10 to $65!! Gimme a break -
http://www.arkansasfight.com/2013/12/12/5203920/trough-talk-what-can-be-done-to-increase-razorback-basketball
-Rutgers has the worst attendance in the AAC (the remnant of the Big East_ - they drew only 392 to one game!!
That is no typo - THREE HUNDRED NINETY TWO!! But what do you expect with this quality of opponent?
http://www.dailytargum.com/sports/mens_basketball/ru-cruises-past-stillman-for-victory/article_0a75ee88-5650-11e3-905e-0019bb30f31a.html
-West Virginia forced a RESEATING PLAN on all the long time season ticket holders and fans - guess what - the fans were angry and attendance this year is WAY down. I mean WAY, WAY down in the 4000-5000 range. This is West Virginia - Jerry West's home!! They are drawing less than Bradley & ISU draw!! Season ticket sales are down 1,700!! Fans are saying...
"We are spiraling down.. The average fan senses the elitism from changes in parking to ticket surcharges to seat availability changes."
"What impact has the Coliseum Reseating Plan had on attendance?'' another asked. "What were this year's season-ticket sales vs. last year?
I have a feeling that season-ticket sales are down as a result. I know a lot of people (us included) who did not renew."
http://www.wvgazette.com/Sports/WVU/201312070075
-Toledo's local press mocks and insults the student body in an effort to get more to show up.
Wanna bet that doesn't work?
http://www.independentcollegian.com/sports/blake-bacho-attendance-at-savage-arena-for-toledo-basketball-needs-to-improve-1.2849614#.UqxM7VtDscE
-Duke always lists their home crowd as a sellout - but here's an article saying that the stands were only half full for a game against a low-level, no-name opponent -
http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2013/11/19/duke-basketball-routs-unc-asheville-front-small-home-crowd
-Colorado attendance is surging - they are reasonably good and play a good home schedule - they have have sellouts & have to institute a wrist band process to dispense tickets!!
..but as we can see from above - bringing in all new players, jacking ticket prices, forcing a re-seating plan, and scheduling horrible no-name home opponents are all recipes for a downturn in attendance.
Find out which marketing firms helped these guys with their bad ideas and stay away from them.
Here are just a few examples we may be able to learn from..
-Winning is NOT a guarantee that attendance will surge. No team in college basketball wins more at home than Kentucky - but there are fans who see their players are just passing thru - the one-and-dones, hardly know most of their names - guess what...
Kentucky's home attendance has shown a significant drop in the past few years that Calipari has been running the NBA-prep route..
huge changeovers, unfamiliar players, "rebuilding" each year, and players who are not committed to the program .....
http://johnclay.bloginky.com/2013/12/11/believe-it-or-not-uk-basketball-attendance-declining/
-Arkansas wins a lot at home and spent millions on their new head coach, and they are the ONLY show in town....but....Arkansas scheduled HORRIBLYand most of their home opponents are 180, 200 and worse, 300+ in RPI - people are staying home!
http://www.arkansasfight.com/2013/12/12/5203920/trough-talk-what-can-be-done-to-increase-razorback-basketball
-Likewise Arizona State - disappointing attendance for games like Maryland-Baltimore County
-Mizzou jacked their ticket prices to gouge the people who wanted to see UCLA come to town - and then the Mizzou people were stunned to see only 8000 people show up (arena capacity > 15,000) for such a high profile opponent - but then they had jacked the price of even the cheap seats from $10 to $65!! Gimme a break -
http://www.arkansasfight.com/2013/12/12/5203920/trough-talk-what-can-be-done-to-increase-razorback-basketball
-Rutgers has the worst attendance in the AAC (the remnant of the Big East_ - they drew only 392 to one game!!
That is no typo - THREE HUNDRED NINETY TWO!! But what do you expect with this quality of opponent?
http://www.dailytargum.com/sports/mens_basketball/ru-cruises-past-stillman-for-victory/article_0a75ee88-5650-11e3-905e-0019bb30f31a.html
-West Virginia forced a RESEATING PLAN on all the long time season ticket holders and fans - guess what - the fans were angry and attendance this year is WAY down. I mean WAY, WAY down in the 4000-5000 range. This is West Virginia - Jerry West's home!! They are drawing less than Bradley & ISU draw!! Season ticket sales are down 1,700!! Fans are saying...
"We are spiraling down.. The average fan senses the elitism from changes in parking to ticket surcharges to seat availability changes."
"What impact has the Coliseum Reseating Plan had on attendance?'' another asked. "What were this year's season-ticket sales vs. last year?
I have a feeling that season-ticket sales are down as a result. I know a lot of people (us included) who did not renew."
http://www.wvgazette.com/Sports/WVU/201312070075
-Toledo's local press mocks and insults the student body in an effort to get more to show up.
Wanna bet that doesn't work?
http://www.independentcollegian.com/sports/blake-bacho-attendance-at-savage-arena-for-toledo-basketball-needs-to-improve-1.2849614#.UqxM7VtDscE
-Duke always lists their home crowd as a sellout - but here's an article saying that the stands were only half full for a game against a low-level, no-name opponent -
http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2013/11/19/duke-basketball-routs-unc-asheville-front-small-home-crowd
-Colorado attendance is surging - they are reasonably good and play a good home schedule - they have have sellouts & have to institute a wrist band process to dispense tickets!!
..but as we can see from above - bringing in all new players, jacking ticket prices, forcing a re-seating plan, and scheduling horrible no-name home opponents are all recipes for a downturn in attendance.
Find out which marketing firms helped these guys with their bad ideas and stay away from them.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Ten silliest and dishonest claims about the future..
#10 - The Great Lakes will dry up due to global warming & drought.
Facts: - water levels in the Great Lakes fluctuates up and down...always have & always will - they are not going to dry up.
See the details on this chart - levels have been up and down many, many times since measurements began.
Note that back in 1997 there were all time record high levels and people were worried the lakes would cause great flooding.
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/now/wlevels/dbd/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/30/us-transportion-water-drought-idUSBRE8AT17E20121130
http://www.wtsp.com/weather/article/296424/3/Two-Great-Lakes-at-shallowest-levels-ever-recorded
#9 - Groundwater levels in 1988 were low after some droughts and many predicted they would never recover, wells would go permanently dry - or would at least take 50 years of heavy rains to recover.
Facts: The ground water levels have long since recovered even though we did have a few more years of drought.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5193/pdf/sir2007-5193.pdf
However - the drought has less to do with this than other forms of human behavior. We now cover so much land with buildings, parking lots, concrete, and other structures that rain no longer returns to the ground to replenish groundwater - and instead it runs off and into creeks & rivers and ultimately runs into the oceans causing ocean level rise.
This is a man-made problem but it is not man-made pollution it is man-made building - something we equate with progress and higher level of human society & function.
As a corollary to this claim - many experts predicted disaster a couple years ago in California with massive loss of water in reservoirs and wells. They said it would take FIFTY YEARS of heavy rains to replenish the water in California lakes reservoirs, wells, etc.
Fact: - one year of decent rain & snow resulted in COMPLETE recovery and there is no problem any more.
Talk about Chicken Little!!!
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14688924
#8 The Antarctic ice shelf was melting and would never recover.
Fact: This also happens on and off - and yes - a huge hunk of Antarctic ice shelf broke off a few years ago amid predictions of panic by some...
BUT - the entire ice shelf quickly reformed and was back to normal.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/98EO00152/abstract
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Further_break-up_of_Antarctic_ice_shelf
Now we see all time RECORD HIGH Antarctic ice levels...the ice sheets are bigger than ever, so if smaller ice means disastrous global warming - wouldn't you think massive high record ice in Antarctica ought to somehow signal the opposite?
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/antarctic-ice-area-sets-another-record-nsidc-is-silent/
As a corollary - many predicted MASSIVE melting of Antarctic snow would cause worldwide flooding.
Fact: it didn't and Antarctic snow levels are also hitting RECORD high levels.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/02/12/sea-ice-news-volume-4-1-arctic-ice-gain-sets-a-new-record/
#7 - Here's the funniest one - many "experts" including this well known one predicted the day was coming soon when New York & Washington DC would NEVER see snow again.
Fact: They have since seen RECORD snowfall
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/noted-global-warming-expert-rfk-jr-predicted-that-washington-dc-might-never-see-snow-again
http://notrickszone.com/2013/01/04/northern-hemisphere-snow-cover-sets-all-time-december-record-9-million-sq-km-more-than-32-years-ago/
#6 Arctic ice was disappearing and would never recover - or at the very best scenario wouldn't recover for 50 years!!!
Fact: Just one cooler than average summer has resulted in the Arctic ice cap not only RECOVERING but expanding to record levels.
The polar bears are quite happy now.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/Global-cooling-Arctic-ice-caps-grows-60-global-warming-predictions.html
#5 The most respected and top expert in climate science claimed the ice, snow, and glaciers in the Himalayas and on Mt. Everest were disappearing and would be gone by 2038!
Fact: this same "scientist" has since been discovered to have fabricated all his data, and lied about everything he said because he had an agenda.
He has since recanted and admitted he lied and now is known to be a fraud.
That didn't stop the United Nations to hire the guy as their expert!
http://iceagenow.info/2012/02/himalayas-lost-ice-10-years-study-shows/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/23/breaking-news-scientist-admits-ipcc-used-fake-data-to-pressure-policy-makers/
#4 Of course you've heard this one plenty - that global warming would result is worse HURRICANE seasons, more monster storms, and even worse tornadoes.
Fact: Not so at all - there have always been bad storms and bad years intermixed with milder ones.
Many point to "Sandy" - but check it out yourself - Sandy wasn't even a HURRICANE - it dropped to a tropical storm - and it didn't cause damage by its severity but because of people building in its path.
This year happens to be an ALL record MILD year for hurricanes and tornadoes.
Certainly this does not fit their predictions so they simply aren't talking about it.
In fact only TWO of the last TEN years saw an Atlantic hurricane season that was worse than historical average and the other EIGHT years were milder than average.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/19/2013-is-a-record-low-year-for-u-s-tornadoes/
But - the experts still have reduced the standards needed to call a storm a hurricane for warning purposes - they want to make sure you don't ignore them.
http://www.whiotv.com/news/weather/hurricane-tropical-storm-warning-definitions-chang/nXCmy/
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/12/05/national-hurricane-center-to-expand-storm-warnings/
#3 Massive ice melts would result in sea levels rising several meters - many even claimed it would happen by 20010 and 2013... This would result in horrible flooding along coastlines and displace hundreds of millions of people!
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/impacts/early-warning-signs-of-global-8.html
These people claimed sea levels would rise 60 to 80 METERS!!!
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/question473.htm
Fact: well - it just isn't happening. When people are asked to show even one example of this happening anywhere in the world - they come up with nothing!
Here are the facts:
-sea levels are gradually rising and have done so steadily for well over 100 years...it's practically linear and it was predictable.
Look at this graph and see that sea levels rose very gradually even when the earth had cooling stretches in the 1950's, 1970's, etc..
This is proof it has nothing to do with earth warming.
http://stevengoddard.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/700px-recent_sea_level_rise-1.png
So what's causing it?? Go back and read #9 above - it has large to do with the expansion of population, the filling of lakes & swamps, the displacement of water sitting on continents by buildings, fill, sea walls, and backfill.
We all know most of Manhattan was once water-filled swamp as was half of southern Louisiana & New Orleans. Where do you think all that water gradually goes when it's displaced?
It ultimately goes back and causes the oceans to rise.
If you still doubt this - then consider when there were a few regional heavy rains & floods recently in Australia - the experts showed that "REPLACING" water into lakes & swamps - the opposite of what's been gradually happening for 100 years - stopped the gradual rise of the oceans!!
http://earthsky.org/earth/can-unusual-weather-patterns-halt-sea-level-rise
"Experts" who have tried to show where shore damage is occurring - have to make things up.
Remember the NY Times writer that claimed Norfolk was being flooded when it wasn't due to rising sea but to sinking ground!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/28/norfolk-virginia-sea-levels-rise_n_1461486.html
#2 I threw this one in just to show how silly and dishonest some global warming advocates are. This isn't a big deal but it is a big lie.
Recently this photo showed up with lots of claims that is was incontrovertible proof of global warming and melting polar ice caps.
http://www.livescience.com/38347-north-pole-ice-melt-lake.html
This photo went viral with wild claims of warming-related disasters!
...but, as always, there's more to the story...
Fact: this photo was NOT taken at the North Pole. Of course that fact was irrelevant to those who already had an agenda to jam down your throat.
Here's the truth - that photo is not the North Pole and does not show massively melting arctic ice.
In fact - go back to #6 and see that Arctic ice is actually at RECORD HIGHS!
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/polar-researchers-explain-north-pole-lake/?_r=0
#1 Every year we get warmer and warmer - global warming is a fact and it's getting worse every year!
Fact: well - that's not what the facts say...
I suppose you can hand pick the data you want to prove just about anything but most reputable scientists agree that the warming treand that existed through the 1980's and 1990's - somewhat ended about 1997 and have shown virtually NO warming since.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.html
Actually there's evidence that we are now entering perhaps a long cooling cycle!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/10294082/Global-warming-No-actually-were-cooling-claim-scientists.html
record hurricane seasons would become the norm
photo of north pole buoy
Facts: - water levels in the Great Lakes fluctuates up and down...always have & always will - they are not going to dry up.
See the details on this chart - levels have been up and down many, many times since measurements began.
Note that back in 1997 there were all time record high levels and people were worried the lakes would cause great flooding.
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/now/wlevels/dbd/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/30/us-transportion-water-drought-idUSBRE8AT17E20121130
http://www.wtsp.com/weather/article/296424/3/Two-Great-Lakes-at-shallowest-levels-ever-recorded
#9 - Groundwater levels in 1988 were low after some droughts and many predicted they would never recover, wells would go permanently dry - or would at least take 50 years of heavy rains to recover.
Facts: The ground water levels have long since recovered even though we did have a few more years of drought.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5193/pdf/sir2007-5193.pdf
However - the drought has less to do with this than other forms of human behavior. We now cover so much land with buildings, parking lots, concrete, and other structures that rain no longer returns to the ground to replenish groundwater - and instead it runs off and into creeks & rivers and ultimately runs into the oceans causing ocean level rise.
This is a man-made problem but it is not man-made pollution it is man-made building - something we equate with progress and higher level of human society & function.
As a corollary to this claim - many experts predicted disaster a couple years ago in California with massive loss of water in reservoirs and wells. They said it would take FIFTY YEARS of heavy rains to replenish the water in California lakes reservoirs, wells, etc.
Fact: - one year of decent rain & snow resulted in COMPLETE recovery and there is no problem any more.
Talk about Chicken Little!!!
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14688924
#8 The Antarctic ice shelf was melting and would never recover.
Fact: This also happens on and off - and yes - a huge hunk of Antarctic ice shelf broke off a few years ago amid predictions of panic by some...
BUT - the entire ice shelf quickly reformed and was back to normal.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/98EO00152/abstract
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Further_break-up_of_Antarctic_ice_shelf
Now we see all time RECORD HIGH Antarctic ice levels...the ice sheets are bigger than ever, so if smaller ice means disastrous global warming - wouldn't you think massive high record ice in Antarctica ought to somehow signal the opposite?
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/antarctic-ice-area-sets-another-record-nsidc-is-silent/
As a corollary - many predicted MASSIVE melting of Antarctic snow would cause worldwide flooding.
Fact: it didn't and Antarctic snow levels are also hitting RECORD high levels.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/02/12/sea-ice-news-volume-4-1-arctic-ice-gain-sets-a-new-record/
#7 - Here's the funniest one - many "experts" including this well known one predicted the day was coming soon when New York & Washington DC would NEVER see snow again.
Fact: They have since seen RECORD snowfall
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/noted-global-warming-expert-rfk-jr-predicted-that-washington-dc-might-never-see-snow-again
http://notrickszone.com/2013/01/04/northern-hemisphere-snow-cover-sets-all-time-december-record-9-million-sq-km-more-than-32-years-ago/
#6 Arctic ice was disappearing and would never recover - or at the very best scenario wouldn't recover for 50 years!!!
Fact: Just one cooler than average summer has resulted in the Arctic ice cap not only RECOVERING but expanding to record levels.
The polar bears are quite happy now.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/Global-cooling-Arctic-ice-caps-grows-60-global-warming-predictions.html
#5 The most respected and top expert in climate science claimed the ice, snow, and glaciers in the Himalayas and on Mt. Everest were disappearing and would be gone by 2038!
Fact: this same "scientist" has since been discovered to have fabricated all his data, and lied about everything he said because he had an agenda.
He has since recanted and admitted he lied and now is known to be a fraud.
That didn't stop the United Nations to hire the guy as their expert!
http://iceagenow.info/2012/02/himalayas-lost-ice-10-years-study-shows/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/23/breaking-news-scientist-admits-ipcc-used-fake-data-to-pressure-policy-makers/
#4 Of course you've heard this one plenty - that global warming would result is worse HURRICANE seasons, more monster storms, and even worse tornadoes.
Fact: Not so at all - there have always been bad storms and bad years intermixed with milder ones.
Many point to "Sandy" - but check it out yourself - Sandy wasn't even a HURRICANE - it dropped to a tropical storm - and it didn't cause damage by its severity but because of people building in its path.
This year happens to be an ALL record MILD year for hurricanes and tornadoes.
Certainly this does not fit their predictions so they simply aren't talking about it.
In fact only TWO of the last TEN years saw an Atlantic hurricane season that was worse than historical average and the other EIGHT years were milder than average.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/19/2013-is-a-record-low-year-for-u-s-tornadoes/
But - the experts still have reduced the standards needed to call a storm a hurricane for warning purposes - they want to make sure you don't ignore them.
http://www.whiotv.com/news/weather/hurricane-tropical-storm-warning-definitions-chang/nXCmy/
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/12/05/national-hurricane-center-to-expand-storm-warnings/
#3 Massive ice melts would result in sea levels rising several meters - many even claimed it would happen by 20010 and 2013... This would result in horrible flooding along coastlines and displace hundreds of millions of people!
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/impacts/early-warning-signs-of-global-8.html
These people claimed sea levels would rise 60 to 80 METERS!!!
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/question473.htm
Fact: well - it just isn't happening. When people are asked to show even one example of this happening anywhere in the world - they come up with nothing!
Here are the facts:
-sea levels are gradually rising and have done so steadily for well over 100 years...it's practically linear and it was predictable.
Look at this graph and see that sea levels rose very gradually even when the earth had cooling stretches in the 1950's, 1970's, etc..
This is proof it has nothing to do with earth warming.
http://stevengoddard.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/700px-recent_sea_level_rise-1.png
So what's causing it?? Go back and read #9 above - it has large to do with the expansion of population, the filling of lakes & swamps, the displacement of water sitting on continents by buildings, fill, sea walls, and backfill.
We all know most of Manhattan was once water-filled swamp as was half of southern Louisiana & New Orleans. Where do you think all that water gradually goes when it's displaced?
It ultimately goes back and causes the oceans to rise.
If you still doubt this - then consider when there were a few regional heavy rains & floods recently in Australia - the experts showed that "REPLACING" water into lakes & swamps - the opposite of what's been gradually happening for 100 years - stopped the gradual rise of the oceans!!
http://earthsky.org/earth/can-unusual-weather-patterns-halt-sea-level-rise
"Experts" who have tried to show where shore damage is occurring - have to make things up.
Remember the NY Times writer that claimed Norfolk was being flooded when it wasn't due to rising sea but to sinking ground!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/28/norfolk-virginia-sea-levels-rise_n_1461486.html
#2 I threw this one in just to show how silly and dishonest some global warming advocates are. This isn't a big deal but it is a big lie.
Recently this photo showed up with lots of claims that is was incontrovertible proof of global warming and melting polar ice caps.
http://www.livescience.com/38347-north-pole-ice-melt-lake.html
This photo went viral with wild claims of warming-related disasters!
...but, as always, there's more to the story...
Fact: this photo was NOT taken at the North Pole. Of course that fact was irrelevant to those who already had an agenda to jam down your throat.
Here's the truth - that photo is not the North Pole and does not show massively melting arctic ice.
In fact - go back to #6 and see that Arctic ice is actually at RECORD HIGHS!
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/polar-researchers-explain-north-pole-lake/?_r=0
#1 Every year we get warmer and warmer - global warming is a fact and it's getting worse every year!
Fact: well - that's not what the facts say...
I suppose you can hand pick the data you want to prove just about anything but most reputable scientists agree that the warming treand that existed through the 1980's and 1990's - somewhat ended about 1997 and have shown virtually NO warming since.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.html
Actually there's evidence that we are now entering perhaps a long cooling cycle!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/10294082/Global-warming-No-actually-were-cooling-claim-scientists.html
record hurricane seasons would become the norm
photo of north pole buoy
Thursday, August 29, 2013
PCS girls soccer records
PCS season records...
1999-00 5-5 (1st season for PCS girls' soccer, played JV only)
2000-01 8-6 (1st varsity season)
2001-02 5-1-6
2002-03 8-4
2003-04 8-4-2
2004-05 7-8-2
2005-06 6-8-2
2006-07 8-11
2007-08 6-5-7 (Cory's first season as head coach)
2008-09 15-7-2 (Regional Champs/Elite 8)
2009-10 15-7-2 (Regional Champs/Sweet 16)
2010-11 14-7-3 (Regional Champs/Sweet 16)
2011-12 13-9-2 (Regional Champs)
2012-13 13-6-2 (Regional Champs)
2013-14 7-12-2 (Regional finalist)
2014-15 9-9-3 (Regional finalist)
2015-16 12-8-1 thus far, Coach Hynek's 100th win incl. (Lost in Regional Finals)
2000-01 8-6 (1st varsity season)
2001-02 5-1-6
2002-03 8-4
2003-04 8-4-2
2004-05 7-8-2
2005-06 6-8-2
2006-07 8-11
2007-08 6-5-7 (Cory's first season as head coach)
2008-09 15-7-2 (Regional Champs/Elite 8)
2009-10 15-7-2 (Regional Champs/Sweet 16)
2010-11 14-7-3 (Regional Champs/Sweet 16)
2011-12 13-9-2 (Regional Champs)
2012-13 13-6-2 (Regional Champs)
2013-14 7-12-2 (Regional finalist)
2014-15 9-9-3 (Regional finalist)
2015-16 12-8-1 thus far, Coach Hynek's 100th win incl. (Lost in Regional Finals)
Career scoring: (stats not yet complete)
(note: I have limited availability to official stats especially before 2008)
Jill Sidler 71 goals (5-16-24-26)
Cortney Allenbaugh 49 goals (11-0-38-0)
Bekah Smith 31 goals (15-9-7-?)
Anne Sidler 31 goals (13-9-5-4)
Jordan Myroth 17 goals (0-0-0-18)
Lindsay Walton 21 goals (1-2-2-16)
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Bradley gets state funds as part of grant
Bradley gets a nice hunk of $$ courtesy of Governor Pat Quinn.
BUT -- Contrary to the mistaken idea that Bradley was somehow special and "earned this grant"...or went out and won the award...
now we see that Gov. Quinn has been on a statewide tour stumping his broad giveaways & giving away the same grant money to almost all the state's private colleges & universities...
Looks like Bradley was hit with this windfall and didn't do a thing to get it - in fact maybe ought to have done better! And had BU not gotten this handout then it would have been a surprise, so anyone giving credit to someone at BU simply doesn't know anything and is stupid.
In fact - many, many schools got considerably bigger grants than Bradley - so you actually gotta wonder how come we got stiffed?
Maybe we should have gotten a bigger hunk of the pie.... ;)
Just check the news stories...
DePaul got $8 million - remember - they are a private Catholic school
Northwestern $7 million
Loyola almost $6 million - so their President, the Reverend Michael J. Garanzini, S.J., must have done a heckuva better job than the downstate schools!!!
Univ. of Chicago $4 million - they have the same enrollment as & employ fewer employees than Bradley!!
Columbia College $5 million
Illinois Institute of Technology, St. Xavier University, Robert Morris & Roosevelt Univ. got $3 mil each
In fact ALL the Chicago private schools got way more than Bradley!!!
IWU & Eureka College both got about $1 mil
Lewis University - MUCH smaller than Bradley - got almost $3 million
Quincy Univ. got a million
St' Francis univ. in Joliet got OVER a mil
Elmhurst College got $1.5 million and they are only half the size and only a fraction of the community influence and job creator as Bradley
Lake Forest College got $1
Trinity International University got almost a million
and so on with numerous others - even tiny Rosalind Franklin University
Ausgustana, Knox, Monmouth - got over $3 million
Milliken, Illinois College...got $3.4 MILLION
http://elmhurst.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/state-awards-grant-to-elmhurst-college-for-schiable
http://newssun.suntimes.com/news/21645821-418/34m-in-grants-awarded-to-four-area-colleges.html
http://romeoville.patch.com/groups/schools/p/quinn-26-million-grant-benefits-lewis-science-center
http://www.enewspf.com/school-news/44960-gov-quinn-announces-that-depaul-is-one-of-the-chicago-area-universities-to-receive-capital-grant-funding.html
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Ill-Gov-Quinn-makes-3-stops-after-criticism-4694295.php
http://www.wgem.com/story/22980347/2013/07/31/state-of-illinois-awards-886k-grant-to-quincy-university
http://www.taylorvilledailynews.com/news/details.cfm?clientid=21&id=87651#.UfzrTpLOvPU
EVEN many, many tiny little schools in and around Chicago and RELIGIOUS schools like MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE got big grants - MOODY got well over $600,000
http://news.yottos.com/ShowNews/Governor_Quinn_Announces_$54.8_Million_Investment_in_Chicago_Area_Colleges_and_Universities_-_Includes_Nearly_$4.8_Million_to_Columbia_College_Chicago_for_Major_Campus_Improvements;_Grants_to_Create_Thousands_of_Local_Jobs_01-08-2013
So.......looks like Bradley cashed in but hard to credit anyone at Bradley for anything special - note the Chicago schools where Gov. Quinn hopes to get lots & lots of votes next time around - got the lion's share of the handouts...
In fact the amounts given seem to be in DIRECT PROPORTION to how close you are to CHICAGO!!
..so I'd say the money was determined politically and not based on any action by the schools. I am also surprised there wasn't more backlash about giving the money to private schools.
Here's a story about how Gov. Quinn held a "CLOSED DOOR MEETING" with the heads of all the state's universities to determine the giveaway, at a time when some state schools
are nearly going bankrupt!
SIU is lacking $86 million in state aid & grant money that was promised yet NEVER DELIVERED!!
http://www.wsiltv.com/news/education/IL-College-Chiefs-Back-Quinn-Call-For-More-MAP-Money-139027654.html?m=y
...but there are people who claim it is unconstitutional to give the money to private schools and who are suing..
BUT -- Contrary to the mistaken idea that Bradley was somehow special and "earned this grant"...or went out and won the award...
now we see that Gov. Quinn has been on a statewide tour stumping his broad giveaways & giving away the same grant money to almost all the state's private colleges & universities...
Looks like Bradley was hit with this windfall and didn't do a thing to get it - in fact maybe ought to have done better! And had BU not gotten this handout then it would have been a surprise, so anyone giving credit to someone at BU simply doesn't know anything and is stupid.
In fact - many, many schools got considerably bigger grants than Bradley - so you actually gotta wonder how come we got stiffed?
Maybe we should have gotten a bigger hunk of the pie.... ;)
Just check the news stories...
DePaul got $8 million - remember - they are a private Catholic school
Northwestern $7 million
Loyola almost $6 million - so their President, the Reverend Michael J. Garanzini, S.J., must have done a heckuva better job than the downstate schools!!!
Univ. of Chicago $4 million - they have the same enrollment as & employ fewer employees than Bradley!!
Columbia College $5 million
Illinois Institute of Technology, St. Xavier University, Robert Morris & Roosevelt Univ. got $3 mil each
In fact ALL the Chicago private schools got way more than Bradley!!!
IWU & Eureka College both got about $1 mil
Lewis University - MUCH smaller than Bradley - got almost $3 million
Quincy Univ. got a million
St' Francis univ. in Joliet got OVER a mil
Elmhurst College got $1.5 million and they are only half the size and only a fraction of the community influence and job creator as Bradley
Lake Forest College got $1
Trinity International University got almost a million
and so on with numerous others - even tiny Rosalind Franklin University
Ausgustana, Knox, Monmouth - got over $3 million
Milliken, Illinois College...got $3.4 MILLION
http://elmhurst.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/state-awards-grant-to-elmhurst-college-for-schiable
http://newssun.suntimes.com/news/21645821-418/34m-in-grants-awarded-to-four-area-colleges.html
http://romeoville.patch.com/groups/schools/p/quinn-26-million-grant-benefits-lewis-science-center
http://www.enewspf.com/school-news/44960-gov-quinn-announces-that-depaul-is-one-of-the-chicago-area-universities-to-receive-capital-grant-funding.html
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Ill-Gov-Quinn-makes-3-stops-after-criticism-4694295.php
http://www.wgem.com/story/22980347/2013/07/31/state-of-illinois-awards-886k-grant-to-quincy-university
http://www.taylorvilledailynews.com/news/details.cfm?clientid=21&id=87651#.UfzrTpLOvPU
EVEN many, many tiny little schools in and around Chicago and RELIGIOUS schools like MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE got big grants - MOODY got well over $600,000
http://news.yottos.com/ShowNews/Governor_Quinn_Announces_$54.8_Million_Investment_in_Chicago_Area_Colleges_and_Universities_-_Includes_Nearly_$4.8_Million_to_Columbia_College_Chicago_for_Major_Campus_Improvements;_Grants_to_Create_Thousands_of_Local_Jobs_01-08-2013
So.......looks like Bradley cashed in but hard to credit anyone at Bradley for anything special - note the Chicago schools where Gov. Quinn hopes to get lots & lots of votes next time around - got the lion's share of the handouts...
In fact the amounts given seem to be in DIRECT PROPORTION to how close you are to CHICAGO!!
..so I'd say the money was determined politically and not based on any action by the schools. I am also surprised there wasn't more backlash about giving the money to private schools.
Here's a story about how Gov. Quinn held a "CLOSED DOOR MEETING" with the heads of all the state's universities to determine the giveaway, at a time when some state schools
are nearly going bankrupt!
SIU is lacking $86 million in state aid & grant money that was promised yet NEVER DELIVERED!!
http://www.wsiltv.com/news/education/IL-College-Chiefs-Back-Quinn-Call-For-More-MAP-Money-139027654.html?m=y
...but there are people who claim it is unconstitutional to give the money to private schools and who are suing..
Monday, July 29, 2013
So this is freedom of the press?
Freedom of the press is one of our most sacred foundations - all other freedoms have some restrictions that keep people from hollering "fire" in a crowded theater, or prevent witnesses from lying in court, or from having loonies carry guns.
But there are virtually no prohibitions to freedom of the press because all our freedoms depend on a press of INTEGRITY and DIGNITY to be fair & honest and hold the government in check.
You just don't mess with the Freedom of the Press!
So it is that this freedom is so important and so sacred that nobody should distort it for their own selfish purpose. Nobody should violate the basic principles of the freedom of the press for their own personal and petty agenda.
Wouldn't you think the integrity and honor of what a reporter or journalist publishes - is of the highest order...?
Isn't the dignity of what they report worth fighting for - standing up for -- even taking risks for??
Well -
Nooooo......not for these Gatehouse people -- if they don't get what they want in their own small minded agenda, they are going to withhold their columns.....literally hold the content of a free press as hostage!!
http://jimromenesko.com/2013/07/02/reporters-at-gatehouse-paper-withhold-bylines-after-veteran-city-editor-is-laid-off/
http://peoriapundit.blogpeoria.com/2013/07/02/reporters-rebel-mildly-at-local-gatehouse-media-publication/
They have warped the FIRST AMENDMENT from FREEDOM OF THE PRESS - into freedom of what the reporters want for themselves!
They, in their own minds, have become the most important part of the 1st Amendment process.
Only in Peoria...
But there are virtually no prohibitions to freedom of the press because all our freedoms depend on a press of INTEGRITY and DIGNITY to be fair & honest and hold the government in check.
You just don't mess with the Freedom of the Press!
So it is that this freedom is so important and so sacred that nobody should distort it for their own selfish purpose. Nobody should violate the basic principles of the freedom of the press for their own personal and petty agenda.
Wouldn't you think the integrity and honor of what a reporter or journalist publishes - is of the highest order...?
Isn't the dignity of what they report worth fighting for - standing up for -- even taking risks for??
Well -
Nooooo......not for these Gatehouse people -- if they don't get what they want in their own small minded agenda, they are going to withhold their columns.....literally hold the content of a free press as hostage!!
http://jimromenesko.com/2013/07/02/reporters-at-gatehouse-paper-withhold-bylines-after-veteran-city-editor-is-laid-off/
http://peoriapundit.blogpeoria.com/2013/07/02/reporters-rebel-mildly-at-local-gatehouse-media-publication/
They have warped the FIRST AMENDMENT from FREEDOM OF THE PRESS - into freedom of what the reporters want for themselves!
They, in their own minds, have become the most important part of the 1st Amendment process.
Only in Peoria...
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Friday, July 19, 2013
Simple 2-year cost comparison since coaching change - you do the math
Had we stood pat in 2011, the next two years from 2011 to 2013 would have cost $450K per year or roughly $900K, and surely we wouldn't have done any worse than 9th or 10 place - and just maybe we would have done lots better and lost far fewer loyal fans.
BU, with the change - first BU was on the hook for 3 years of JL's salary, the search firm fee, the cost to pay expenses to bring nearly a dozen candidates in for interviews before picking GF, the cost for the first 2 years of GF's deal at $700K base plus extras for camps, TV, etc...
then as we see more factors emerging - BU was on the hook to increase other people's salary as well, change over several assistants, and now even pay off gobs of expensive legal fees for lawsuits and threatened lawsuits on both fronts and lastly - the penalties (buyouts) that someone has to pay - and it's definitely not over yet as BU still faces the court case in October.
Then there's the loss of around 3000 good, loyal fans at each game - this revenue loss is at least $1 million but maybe more since some of the departing fans were big donors as well.
It sure doesn't take an accountant to add all that up and come up with around $6 million and more...possibly lots more......and still counting.
As the politicians say....
are you $5-6 million better off than you were two years ago?? SMH...
BU, with the change - first BU was on the hook for 3 years of JL's salary, the search firm fee, the cost to pay expenses to bring nearly a dozen candidates in for interviews before picking GF, the cost for the first 2 years of GF's deal at $700K base plus extras for camps, TV, etc...
then as we see more factors emerging - BU was on the hook to increase other people's salary as well, change over several assistants, and now even pay off gobs of expensive legal fees for lawsuits and threatened lawsuits on both fronts and lastly - the penalties (buyouts) that someone has to pay - and it's definitely not over yet as BU still faces the court case in October.
Then there's the loss of around 3000 good, loyal fans at each game - this revenue loss is at least $1 million but maybe more since some of the departing fans were big donors as well.
It sure doesn't take an accountant to add all that up and come up with around $6 million and more...possibly lots more......and still counting.
As the politicians say....
are you $5-6 million better off than you were two years ago?? SMH...
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