Just some simple accounting for those who are interested...some opinions gathered from those who were there

Just had a couple interesting conversations with a former long-time member of the Bradley Board of Trustees.
So I thought I'd clear up a simple topic.  If you want to claim it's hearsay, then fine, but it is what it is and I am just relating what was said by others.

Some who are extremely uninformed, credit the departing BU President for bringing in millions of dollars.
But there's really only one person who actually makes that claim and now she's gone and exposed. The gullible and lap-dog PJStar often just parrots what they hear from her - in the end some of those falsehoods get repeated and even bought by uninformed, gullible fans.

First, of the $160 million raised in the past decade - almost all of it is attributable to the people who were in place BEFORE Dr. Glasser got to Peoria.
I have detailed this unequivocally before - the Markin gift, the Caterpillar pledge & gift, the Puterbaugh gift, etc....
Mostly all collected and in the bank long before those currently taking credit got here.

http://bubravesblogger.blogspot.com/2015/08/for-record.html

But nobody talks about the HUGE loss of revenue that has HURT Bradley severely and it was all caused by personality clashes and directly attributable to just one person, Dr. Joanne Glasser.  But some who have left the Board know ...

Simply put - NUMEROUS, wealthy, generous members of the Board of Trustees, as well as other wealthy generous donors have bolted and withdrawn their pledges and gifts as a direct result of that one and only person who was driving BU Athletics and Bradley University itself in an UN-sustainable direction towards disaster - the disaster that the Board finally woke up and saw late last year and then they embarked on an UNPRECEDENTED and highly unique & unusual mass housecleaning from the President to the Vice President to many other administrators, the Athletic Director and highest profile coach & all his staff.

Anyway - the list of prominent Board of Trustee members who have resigned due to Dr. Glasser is astounding....
Hersey Hawkins, Harry Puterbaugh, Brian McGough, even Robert Turner - who was the PRESIDENT of the Board of Trustees and quit mid-term while he was also in the midst of a $10 MILLION donation that he was handing to Bradley - but isn't any more.
Also the McCord family has obviously drawn back support....
all told, those pledges and gifts that those MILLIONAIRES were going to give Bradley but didn't - are thought to total in excess of $20 million!!
Yup - Bradley could and would be at least $20 million on the plus side of the ledger had our President simply treated the most loyal, faithful, generous, and honored of Bradley alumni, Board members, and donors with any respect at all.

People like Hersey Hawkins, Robert Turner, etc....they don't come along very often but now bridges are burned by an egomaniac who had to be the center of attention and ran off anyone else with a higher profile if they didn't cow-tow.
Take it for what it's worth....we're lucky the University has survived this mess.  Thanks only to the great fans who saw the problems, caller her out and wrote letters, emails, and openly pleaded (in editorials, high profile message boards) and personally spoke to the Board and finally got their ear away from the others like Shaheen who led some down the wrong, destructive path.
Those fans finally got the ear of the right Board members who previously were listening to and duped by the but sniffing PJS crowd and squeaky wheel fans who never give a damn cent to Bradley University.
Someone asked where are all those fans who cheered on Dr. Glasser's bad moves and who hated Jim Les so much....they sure seem to have disappeared in a hurry along with all those other fans whose seats are empty for the Geno-coached games.
....and the answer is clear - just go find Geno & Glasser and then check a few inches south......they probably still have their noses stuck in a crack.

We're still deep in a hole and aren't out yet - but at least we have the lead anchor off our necks and have the right people leading us out of the hole.