A Little Enlightenment on Revenue

[tornado]

wait a second tornado....

Mo said flat out that Joah was having girlfriend issues...

He also said simple solution....get her girlfriend to enroll here...

they had a solution.

but Joah never made a move to leave until after Mo left and Joah went over to the UW-M gym and played a few pickup games with Pearl's players...
I am fully convinced Joah would have stayed and played for MO had Mo stayed.

I would buy your argument if Joah had left BEFORE Mo was fired...

[srw]

but Joah never made a move to leave until after Mo left and Joah went over to the UW-M gym and played a few pickup games with Pearl's players...
I am fully convinced Joah would have stayed and played for MO had Mo stayed.

I would buy your argument if Joah had left BEFORE Mo was fired...

I agree with you that Joah would have stayed....Just saying the girlfriend was a big issue

I also agree that an experienced coach would have been able to keep Granger..And would point out, that I don't know of any other suspensions to him besides from JL (although i vaguely recall maybe a one game nba suspension for fighting)

Problem is , that even now, JL is not even remotely competing for league titles. And thats not acceptable to me.

[Da Coach]

IMO, Jim Les should be crdited for trying to keep Granger, and being successful initially in convincing him to stay at Bradley. But there is no way any coach could have kept Granger at Bradley, and most would have sent him packing immediately.
Recall that Granger was getting dozens of phone calls from Duane Broussard from the summer before the 2002-2003 season all the way until the day he left Bradley in mid-January. Broussard by that time was working as an assistant at New Mexico. Broussard was constantly in Granger's ear, and was constantly talking to Granger's father, too, about him leaving Bradley and transferring to New Mexico. The people at Bradley knew about these illegal calls, and still tried to work with the Grangers to keep Danny happy.
There will always be people who will try to blame Jim Les for Granger leaving, but that is simply not the case. He did everything he could do, within reason, to try to make him happy and keep him at Bradley.
Recall that the last straw was when Danny missed the bus to Evansville in January, 2003. Most coaches would have suspended him, but Jim Les allowed him to play at Evansville, and did not punish him. Then when the entire team was chastised on the bus for losing the game, Danny thought he should receive different treatment than everyone else because he had a good game. That is when Danny decided to make the ridiculous claims of "being treated like a slave", and having his health jeopardized because of a phony claim of hypoglycemia (which nobody had ever heard about before or since).