Just read a comment on a message board by a guy claiming to be a Bradley fan - although if truth be known - you gotta wonder where the line gets drawn on "fan" if a guy spends a decade trashing Bradley, never gives a single penny to support the school or the Athletic Department, then roots for the hiring of incompetent people who drive the programs to the worst state ever...
But here's the line given to explain the horrid current state of Bradley basketball....
..."the last 20 years have been an absolute embarrassment in performance,
the way we've conducted basketball business, and otherwise."
really...sort of the extreme of the Kirk-Wessler-school-of-thought where everything including global warming gets blamed on Jim Les and Ken Kavanagh...
Except this nutty guy wants to go back 20 years and claim it was bad or corrupt back then....LOL
I suggest he flash back 20 years and see what then happens in the next upcoming seasons...
Right off the bat, in '94-95 we went 20-10, 12-6 in MVC, went to the NIT when it was still a bit prestigious, had eight home crowds over 10,000 & even drew almost 9,000 to a home NIT game..
I was there then - fans were happy - even excited that we had good personnel and were headed UP!!!
Then '95-96 - a really great season and a memorable team - 22-8, 15-3 in the MVC, we went to the NCAA, then BCS-caliber schools came calling and asking to interview our coach after the season but he chose to stay here, we had NBA caliber players, multiple 10,000 plus home crowds...
(does this sound embarrassing?)
then 1997-2007 we produced more NBA guys than any MVC program, remained inside the Top 50 nationally in attendance, lots of sellouts, had multiple 20-win seasons and a Sweet 16...
There's even undeniable proof that we were as successful as any other MVC program during that stretch - just count total wins, MVC wins, tournament wins, attendance, etc...!!!
The fans were coming, we had news releases of RECORD attendances, RECORD donations, record revenue...we scheduled well, we had MULTIPLE RPI's inside the Top 100 - and several even in the Top 30-40....
In addition we had gobs of fans who'd follow Bradley on the road - games at UNI, ISU, and even in Chicago where literally thousands of the fans would be Bradley people.
To claim this was an embarrassment is ridiculous and ...
what about the way we "did business"???
Well, our AD won the AD of the Year (he's also won again since getting run off)..
..and all those guys that were fired because fans griped (Molinari, Judson, Les, Kavanagh, Alvin Brooks, etc...) - well they all got hired instantly somewhere else and have proven themselves highly successful and highly respected!
Their fans are laughing all the way to the post-season, and in FGCU's case all the way to the Sweet Sixteen!
hmmm...I'm thinking a lot of people would love to see that level of embarrassment again!!!
So what exactly is this bozo talking about? Well, the answer is he just doesn't know squat, but even worse, he's another of those disgruntled whiners who didn't get what he wanted when working for BU and he was happy to see all those people get fired....and now holds intensely personal and juvenile grudges - kinda like the old Mr. Happy...
Now we've had FIVE years of the exact combo he was rooting for --
FIVE straight years of the Glasser/Cross combination - and what have those five years shown?...
the most miserable (and EMBARRASSING) stretch of athletic performance in 110 years of Bradley athletics, plus horrible and even scandalous levels of financial mismanagement, horrible work environment where nobody can do their job, and we're gonna need another $8-10 million thrown down the piss-pot in order to buy out all those incompetent stooges who dragged Bradley into this cesspool.
Glad it's not my money anymore - let someone else pay for that cleanup.
But a lot of the fans are likely gone forever....getting back to the pre-2009 level of success & performance is a pipe dream now....
it's worse that we were right there - right neck & neck with teams like Creighton, Wichita State, even with, if you go back 10-15 years - with Butler and we blew it all away - mostly within the past 5-6 years.
A lot of fans are saving their $300, $500, and even $1-2,000 and staying home and giving up their season tickets...
and saving their $1000-2000 maintenance and unfortunately even their bigger donations -
Letters to the Editor are appearing almost every day pointing out the comical state of Bradley athletics and explaining why people are staying away in droves.
But the warnings have been there for that entire time from even 2007, 2008 onward and especially loudly and consistently since 2009-2010 - yet the nobody listened and here we are...
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