A Jury of One's Peers - How Did Bradley Do Under Coach Les?

[Beninator]

If I had to grade Les' coaching tenure here, I would give him a C. We had an ultimate high that we haven't seen here in decades with the Sweet 16 and his best coaching job was the following year when we got into the NIT. However, I feel that Les did not develop our centers and forwards as well as he could have in the following years, and I think that he fell too much in love with the four guard offense.

[Dallas Brave]

Every time someone does a ranking of mid-majors or something of the kind...
they always end up showing Bradley at the top of the heap....

-Midmajority.com did it and scored on an objective point scale and Bradlet was #1 out of 276 non-BCS schools

-examiner did it and Midstatehoops did -- always the same result --BU's one of the best

-likewise, NCAA keeps travk of wins, attendance, post-season appearances, etc....and BU ranks way ahead of most non-BCS..

-I think if you take any short stretch hampered by injuries, and by a coach being forced to work without being able to choose his own staff -- you might find slightly different results...
but from 2005 thru last year BU had won more Valley games and more tournamernt games than any MVC school except CU, UNI and they had won only a couple more league games.
http://bubravesblogger.blogspot.com/...ith-other.html

My list is not an attempt to rank the teams based on the quality of the program. It is a simple W/L ranking for these teams over the last nine years.

As other people said, the strength of a program is based on more than just W/L. But it could also be said that you can't have a strong program without some level of consistent winning. I think most everyone would agree that the top 10 teams on the W/L ranking also have strong basketball programs. So there is a strong correlation between winning over a sustained period of time and being viewed as an outstandig mid-major basketball program.