Good patterns for "rebuilding"

In the midst of ISU and every other Valley team stocking up on 2013 verbals - I thought I'd change the subject................................................................... Iowa fans were abandoning their team in droves a couple years ago... Iowa had their worst season in 2009-2010 - since the early 70's - and when Lickliter was jettisoned - almost everyone with any talent either left or decommited...so Fran McCafferty had a rebuilding job that everyone said would be impossible to be above .500 for years............................................................................... Well- McCaffery's first year was promising - more wins that the year before but in year two he was already above .500 and advancing in the Big Ten Tourney beating Illinois and winning in the post-season....fans even more optimistic now that he's landed some pretty good players. And there's an optimism there now that hasn't been there in a while http://www.dailyiowan.com/2012/07/18/Opinions/29136.html ................................................................................................. Iowa State completed the rebuild in even more impressive fashion - with Fred Hoiberg- who had never had coaching experience - and who was harshly criticized as the new head coach because of his lack of D-I experience - taking the program from complete mediocrity under McDermott with a revolving door and nearly 20 player-departures for major issues - to more wins than McDermott ever had there in his FIRST season then 23 wins last year and a great season and NCAA run. Again - everyone said at best-case scenario he was gonna take many years but he did it nicely - and almost right from the start. Every fan hopes for this kind of turnaround - is it so wrong for a fan to want to see his team win? Nope - Bradley fans are no different - this is all they want - the fans who want to see wins are NOT the enemy they are the lifeblood of the entire program. it is the fans who actually wanted to sabotage their program for their own selfish purpose of getting rid of someone they personally didn't like that have hurt our program. I can't wait to get there -- Halloween............. ................................ btw -- I get a good belly laugh out of one guy on a message board claiming that he felt he was every bit as important as a fan of Bradley basketball as anyone else... Well...keep on thinking - nobody's stopping you, but wake up to reality - that the core group of a few dozen fans who give in the range of TENS of thousands of $$ yearly to BU vastly trump any concern they'd have for one guy who lives hundreds of miles out of state that never donates a penny to BU but instead spends his time on message boards criticizing. Everyone is entitled to voice their opinion - although they are not entitled to barge into others' private homes and say whatever they want. BUT there are some fans who are more knowlegable and more generous that BU would like to keep around. They just need to avoid mistakes that have been made in the past in the name of moving forward -but in the process upsetting long time supporters...time will tell.