New Athletic Director has work cut out

[jasonpeoria911]

New AD Cross is going to have his work cut out for him. Not just with MBB but overall sports coaching staffs....

2009 records...

Baseball= 17-31
Basketball= currently 6-7 and goin down hill
Mens Cross Country= best finish was four 3rds in 7 meets
Mens Golf= no finished stats for 2009 but they finished near last in the first 4 tournaments
Soccer= 6-11-1
Mens Golf= no completed stats but they rarely won a match in the posted stats

Womens Basketball= currently 4-8
Womens Cross Country= Did pretty good actually, Two 1st place finishes, a 2nd place and two 3rd places in 8 meets
Womens Golf= no finished stats but they wasn't very good in the 4 tournaments posted
Softball= 26-28
Womens Tennis= no finished stats but they were average, won some, lost some
Volleyball= 9-23 overall, 0-18 in Valley

At this pace, all Bradley sports will be below 500, the new AD is gonna have to perform some CPR soon.

Jason

[BradleyBrave]

Well, it depends what his standard of success is. I've heard a little too much talk of 'the experience' and 'academics' and 'it's not just wins and losses', and not enough talk of 'competing for MVC Championships'. We all know academics are important. Can we try to win for once?

[Braves2011]

I will agree with men's golf team but the women the past few years its just really been them and ISU that have really went to the NCAA regionals. So really its just Basketball, soccer and womens golf in a way i guess you can say.

[abesimpson]

Bradley will always hover around .500 when you lump all the sports together. There simply isn't enough scholarship money and funding to make every sport competitive.

For sports like tennis and cross country, we have athletes essentially playing for free who didn't get a lot of attention from other D1 schools going against athletes from public schools on complete rides. Women's tennis a few years ago didn't even have enough girls on the team to play all the matches and usually lost the draw because of a forfeit match or two. There's a nice surprise every so often like softball last season, but the private schools are usually underdogs and out-gunned to the public schools in cross country, track, tennis, ect in the MVC.

Hopefully the new athletic facilities can help turn things around. The cross country teams at least have an indoor track on campus to use now.