All time historic, record player turnover the past four years under Geno Ford

The player turnover in the Geno era was astounding...we mighta done better if some of the players had stayed more than year or so.....but oddly the media never reported much on this disaster...

Instead they just kept on hammering the point that we were upgrading, getting better, deeper, more talented, and light years better than before....

...BUT...none of them ever seemed to help at all and when replaced by the next wave of come-and-go recruits, none were any better.
By my count Geno landed verbals & commitments from 23 different recruits...from Donivine & Nate Wells, to Jalen & Shayok to Tyshon & Mike Shaw, to Zecevic, and Fields, and then the last batch with Amerson & Morgan were pretty useless....
Of those 22 signed LOI's or enrolled - and 21 actually got onto the Bradley roster and logged minutes...

ONLY two stay until they used ALL their eligibility (Pickett & Barnes) and five more (Shaw, Fields, Thomas, Bell, Jones)
are still here and at least have a possibility of completing their eligibility here... although even more might yet leave..

But, a total of 16 of the 23 (70%) either never made it, or left before their expected eligibility was used up...
16 of 23 thru the revolving door...SEVENTY PERCENT failed to even stay more than a year or two before leaving or getting sent packing.....in and out and never helped us a bit - and even the few who stayed only helped some - & couldn't carry the team.
This has to be the real failure of the GF legacy - that all those highly touted and highly acclaimed (by GF & the media) recruits were so devoid of any ability to help us.

Excitement is back

Wow - all I can say is that it's hard to keep up with all the good news...

First - we unload lots of dead weight & hire new AD, coach, & staff...and then we start with the players & now we're loading up on exciting commits for 2015.
Obviously time will tell if they are the best recruiting class in 20 or 30 years as our media has been saying about the last couple groups that didn't pan out.  But definitely the excitement is back.

Just a few weeks ago I wrote an entry titled
"Used to be fun to talk with fans about Bradley basketball - 
it has become a bit painful"

But now it's fun to talk about Bradley basketball - everyone thinks so and we see it on radio talk shows, on the message boards, and everyone you bump in to.
Let's hope the excitement continues all summer -
remember the event scheduled for June 2 - almost immediately after the departure of the past President - will be coming up fast...

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=25177

NCAA has become completely impotent

A couple years back the NCAA cut back on their enforcement staff....yet claimed they were going to be way more efficient in finding and penalizing the cheaters....
what has happened since is interesting....

First - they take forever (like the cases at Syracuse, Penn State, Miami, Cam Newton ...all of which began 4 to 6 years ago! -
and especially the enormous academic fraud stuff at North Carolina

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=16208

...now headed into it's 6th year .... and cases like this one that just get swept under the carpet...)

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=21419

... to actually come to any conclusion. Then despite massive cheating and really serious harm done, they impose minimal & somewhat soft & laughable penalties (like removing some wins that they later add back on)..
then they claim the whole case is done and guys like Jim Boeheim go right back to work despite all the cheating.

Nobody ever gets the severe penalties like Dave Bliss got...
(BTW- Dave Bliss just got hired again as a college head coach -

http://www.bnd.com/2015/04/07/3753299/disgraced-ex-baylor-coach-bliss.html


Then a study done confirms how terribly flawed the NCAA investigative and enforcement process is - and how biased it is yet nobody seems to care...

http://bdavidrid.authorsxpress.com/2015/03/28/usc-case-exposes-ncaa-enforcement-and-infractions-process-as-flawed-and-untenable-yet-again/

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-usc-todd-mcnair-botched-interview-20150325-story.html


But the main thing is that over the past couple years - NOT ONE single new major investigation has been launched and they are seemingly no longer even looking into all the cheating going on - so I guess guys like Calipari can feel emboldened to keep cheating...

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/jon-solomon/24560341/all-quiet-on-the-violations-front-is-ncaa-enforcement-dead

BUT - if Bradley has a kid who earns any summer job overtime pay or who gets a taxi ride paid for - you can bet the NCAA would have a couple field agents setting up camp on the quad for weeks until they found something...


One more thing- wonder why when new coaches are hired in the spring - that the announcement of the new assistants seems to lag a bit even when it is known who will be hired?
Here's the reason...
once hired the assistant coaches must, of course, comply with NCAA recruiting rules but if they have NOT yet been hired then there is NO WAY they can be cited with violations even if they view a kid or a recruit during a dead period or visit him when not allowed to NCAA coaches.

In other words - it is a little bit of a recruiting advantage for a potential assistant coach to stay UNHIRED for a few weeks early in the AAU spring period - so he can do a little more of what he's allowed to do on his own before becoming officially a hired D-I assistant!
So don't be surprised if our assistants hit the ground running once they are named - as if they've already been out there checking kids out...
;)