Comings, goings on Hilltop - DR

[Bravesfan]

Coach Ford has shown that he wants to win right away, and that he is not averse to talking Coach Les' players into staying, and recruiting Coach Les' recruits. Let's be happy and give him credit for this, as it is not the norm among new coaches, from what I have seen. We don't know if he has made a trip to Louisville yet. Let's hope he's headed there this week.

Yes, and hopefully we'll here some more news on this sometime within the next week or two.

[BradleyJD]

Coach Ford has shown that he wants to win right away, and that he is not averse to talking Coach Les' players into staying, and recruiting Coach Les' recruits. Let's be happy and give him credit for this, as it is not the norm among new coaches, from what I have seen. We don't know if he has made a trip to Louisville yet. Let's hope he's headed there this week.

Agreed. I hope he can sell his vision to Remy. If not, he has to find another player to fill the spot.

[BigDogBrave]

Coach Ford has shown that he wants to win right away, and that he is not averse to talking Coach Les' players into staying, and recruiting Coach Les' recruits. Let's be happy and give him credit for this, as it is not the norm among new coaches, from what I have seen. We don't know if he has made a trip to Louisville yet. Let's hope he's headed there this week.

And I, for one, am hopeful that he can coach Jim Les' players better than Jim!

Long live Jim Les. xoxoxo

[real fan]

Coach Ford is going to need to sign some players that can help immediately if we expect BU to have a decent season because a good coach still needs good players if you expect to win, hoping for good news on player personnel next week.

[tornado]

....We don't know if he has made a trip to Louisville yet. Let's hope he's headed there this week.

something tells me (with the smiley) that you knew two days ago that Coach Ford was going right away this week to Louisville to talk with Remy --

[BradleyJD]

something tells me (with the smiley) that you knew two days ago that Coach Ford was going right away this week to Louisville to talk with Remy --

It was in the PJStar on April 13th, wasn't it?

[mrcoachdude]

And I, for one, am hopeful that he can coach Jim Les' players better than Jim!

Long live Jim Les. xoxoxo

why take a shot at Les? Just let it go..it will make you feel better....

[jeffsu]

It was in the PJStar on April 13th, wasn't it?

It did mention that it Would be this week. Not more specific.

Maybe you don't care, but I like knowing that it is today and that Willie Scott was going, too. Those were not mentioned in the PJS. No slam on PJS as I really appreciate the articles lately, but DaC was providing more detail.

Why continue to nitpick on DC, JD? Isn't that what you spend time on TOB doing?

[BradleyJD]

It did mention that it Would be this week. Not more specific.

Maybe you don't care, but I like knowing that it is today and that Willie Scott was going, too. Those were not mentioned in the PJS. No slam on PJS as I really appreciate the articles lately, but DaC was providing more detail.

Why continue to nitpick on DC, JD? Isn't that what you spend time on TOB doing?

Two things....

1. I quoted T, not DC.

2. It's not nitpicking....It was in the paper last week, and it is in today's Louisville Courier http://blogs.courier-journal.com/jod...ng-nuggets-10/


Come on, jeffsu, if you read TOB, then you know I do not do that. You can not like what I say, but don't try to color me as something I am not.

I don't spend my day comparing the boards. Some do, but I do not.

[tornado]

...why compare boards? One is backed by a major multi-million dollar corporation with hundreds of employees, dozens of full time reporters, access to zillions of newswires and news outlets, endless amount of time with their full time positions to make calls and do digging, and even full time, highly paid staff whose sole dedicated job it is to know about and write about Bradley, as well as full time paid employees just to run their message boards...
BradleyFans is just a bunch of fans who have busy full time jobs elsewhere, with little or no time to stay up on events, and even less time to do the same kind of work that would come easy to full time career newspeople....clearly it would be patently impossible for a bunch of know-nothings to get more relevant info in the few minutes of their spare time that they have than the experts and professionals whose sole job it is to get the info first and most accurately....
so it would be no wonder that the PJS gets all the news days before it appears here....

[BradleyJD]

...why compare boards? One is backed by a major multi-million dollar corporation with hundreds of employees, dozens of full time reporters, access to zillions of newswires and news outlets, endless amount of time with their full time positions to make calls and do digging, and even full time, highly paid staff whose sole dedicated job it is to know about and write about Bradley, as well as full time paid employees just to run their message boards...
BradleyFans is just a bunch of fans who have busy full time jobs elsewhere, with little or no time to stay up on events, and even less time to do the same kind of work that would come easy to full time career newspeople....clearly it would be patently impossible for a bunch of know-nothings to get more relevant info in the few minutes of their spare time that they have than the experts and professionals whose sole job it is to get the info first and most accurately....
so it would be no wonder that the PJS gets all the news days before it appears here....

Fair enough.

[AZ BU Fan]

BU lost Granger, Tisby, and Tucker when JL came on board, and JL did pretty good for himself in spite of this.

I wouldn't loose any sleep over BU recruits/seniors fleeing BU with the current coaching change, if you believe in the Coach BU hired to take BU to the next level.

There was no guarantee RA, or even SH, would come to BU this fall even if JL had stayed. It wouldn't have surprised me one bit given the win or else mandate JL would certainly have had over his head during the 2011-12 season.

Would you as a freshman recruit want to go to a school when there was no publically no guarantee the guy who recruited/signed you would be there after one year?

I wouldn't want to risk it after having burned up a year of eligibility, and wouldn't want that potential coaching change pressure/vibe around the team during the season... Particularly if I was a highly sought after recruit who continued to blown up .... and had lots of other opportunities.

Just sayin...