Discouraged to say the least

[mexicobufan]

Bradley basketball is about fun for me and the ability to forget everything else going on in the world. I dont plan on giving up on next year or any year after that before it starts. We lost a recruit so what it happens all the time to every school. I look forward to having Fields at the PG position allowing Lemon to go to the SG spot. That alone will make a difference next year. I think Swopshire will contribute next year and will be a step forward for the next 4 years. There are plenty of other positives I could go into but the bottom line is I love Bradley basketball and I am on board with our current Coach and staff until they prove otherwise.

To give up in May on this team is up to each of us but its not happening in my house!

[Bradleyfan1]

Bradley basketball is about fun for me and the ability to forget everything else going on in the world. I dont plan on giving up on next year or any year after that before it starts. We lost a recruit so what it happens all the time to every school. I look forward to having Fields at the PG position allowing Lemon to go to the SG spot. That alone will make a difference next year. I think Swopshire will contribute next year and will be a step forward for the next 4 years. There are plenty of other positives I could go into but the bottom line is I love Bradley basketball and I am on board with our current Coach and staff until they prove otherwise.

To give up in May on this team is up to each of us but its not happening in my house!

"Like"


Grier should really help lighten the load from Walt.

So in theory we are gonna be better and THE VALLEY is going to be worse.

So we can look forward to winning a lot in the NON CON and by BIG that should be fun and new.

Id still feel better w/ a Proven Juco Big. or a got no chance BCS big.

[bradleyfan124]

I wonr give up on them either. I feel they will be better next year with what they already have. They just need to keep building. Why dont we request a chat with Cross and tell him our concerns. That is one way to address the problem ourselves

[AZ BU Fan]

Are we talking about 2004-5?

2000-1 ... 19-12 .... 12-6
2001-2 ... 9-19 .... 5-12
BU Fires Coach
2002-3 ... 12-18 ... 8-10
2003-4 ... 15-16 ... 7-11 (!)
2004-5 ... 13-15 ... 6-12 (!!)

2009-10 .. 16-15 ... 9-9
2010-11 .. 12-20 ... 4-14
BU Fires Coach
2011-12 .. 7-25 ..... 2-16
2012-13 .. 18-17 ... 7-11

BU made big jump last year, and, has a better line up in place for 2013-14 than it did last year, missed recruits or not.

As history has shown, BU has been in the same spot before in the early 2000's and managed to turn it around. I dare say GF and BU will do much
better in 2013-14 than JL did in his 3rd year in 2004-5.

What's the ledge jumping problem?

Like BU has never lost out on a top recruit during 2002-2011? Or had top players bail out on BU in this time frame after a new coach named?

Man, stop with the *&*&^%^%$#@#@ doom and gloom on the Forum...

Can there be some other NCAA Div I school who has made similar year on year progress with so many supposed "fans" standing on a ledge?

[tornado]

so you think the 30-40% tanking of our home attendance is a mirage or due to 3000 people listening to the wrong advice?
Personally I'd have to think those 3000 see what perhaps you choose not to


and...

Man, stop with the *&*&^%^%$#@#@ doom and gloom on the Forum... ..

you were part of the +&+&@%$^&^%% doom & gloom for several years until you got your way...now it's everyone else's fault?

[mexicobufan]

I would rather give Geno a couple more years than going back to the day we knew before the season started we would end up 4th in the MVC.

[lefty]

I'm not discouraged at all.

[bradleyfan20]

The whole thing....basketball program and the athletic program is going downhill Fast. The President, trustees, M. Cross, and Geno have not been able to turn this around. They won,t listen to fans or alums and keep making bad decisions that further hurt BU programs.
Our only hope seems to be if the few remaining fans can somehow rise up and public ally demand changes.
The alternative is to go Divn II, cut back coaches & coaches big salaries, and play a Divn. II schedule in the RC. The Bradley of old may very well be history thanks to Joann and the disinterested trustees.

WOW, even you don't believe any of this! You are not a Bradley fan. You are a fan of a memory, one that is not an accurate portrayal of reality. "And Geno have not been able to turn it around." - A, that means you know the program was in the shitter and needed turned around, and B, 18 WINS in YEAR 2 - GIVE HIM A CHANCE!!! STOP BEING A MESSAGE BOARD HENNY PENNY!!!

[Future Walk-On]

we suck. im out for blood

[Future Walk-On]

we are going to some luck... not saying the S16 was lucky... but we are going to have to over achieve a bit with who we have to become players in the recruiting game.... this means we need tough kids a tough coach and a fanbase that hangs on :/

[traveler]

discouraged to say the least

Maybe it's just losing another recruit but there are just too many things to be discouraged about with the Bradley basketball program.
1. Recruiting- I really thought we could turn the corner but once again we lose out on all of our top targets for whatever reasons. The bottom line is you have to close the deal out. Period. Tired of hoping to get a big time recruit but the way it's set up its just not in the cards. We will always be recruiting bottom feeders. 2. Landscape- with all the conference re-alignment going on the best the MVC can do is get Loyola. All you need to know is what CBS did during the MVC finals. If Wichita ever moves on the MVC will barely be a mid major conference. 3. Scheduling- not much to be excited about there either. Home schedule looks awful for next year. 4. Fan support- it looks like a nursing home during home games and now with the massive increase in season tickets the administration has made it worse. Just wonder who will fill those seats in 10 years when a large portion of our season ticket base is gone. I have been a supporter of Bradley basketball for 40 years and basically stopped going at the end of the Jim Les era. I think Geno is a good coach but there is not much to get excited about these days. Losing Delaney, Tucker and Hamilton puts a huge damper on my enthusiasm for next year. Someone talk me off this ledge. Discouraged.

You shouldn't be discouraged. The two new players who transferred last year are ready to play, and the two players who transferred out were marginal at best. This could be an excellent year for Geno. And you do understand that he knows he has to coach the kids up that he has for this year. I'm looking for better things this year than last.

[Bradleyfan1]

You shouldn't be discouraged. The two new players who transferred last year are ready to play, and the two players who transferred out were marginal at best. This could be an excellent year for Geno. And you do understand that he knows he has to coach the kids up that he has for this year. I'm looking for better things this year than last.

"LIke"

[wily coyote]

You shouldn't be discouraged. The two new players who transferred last year are ready to play, and the two players who transferred out were marginal at best. This could be an excellent year for Geno. And you do understand that he knows he has to coach the kids up that he has for this year. I'm looking for better things this year than last.

Boy,haven't posted on here for a couple of days. Sure is dead and half of what's posted sounds like someone died. Traveler I'm with you can't understand why all the gloom and doom comes from, it's only May. If this was a Cub message board I could understand but the way I see it we are far better next year than we've been the 3 and that's not counting on any more recruits. Hopefully Greene and Henry. I just don't get all the negativity on this board. We need to get and stay behind Geno and these kids 100% but a certain faction seems to not wanna. Don't get it myself. I know some are worried about attendance and rightly so but when we start winning that will take care of itself. It will be interesting to see if the ticket increase will lower attendance but lets wait and see before we hang the guilty with words.

[Old Coach]

I've been told that sales are going very well for the Premium Seating.

[Chico]

Boy,haven't posted on here for a couple of days. Sure is dead and half of what's posted sounds like someone died. Traveler I'm with you can't understand why all the gloom and doom comes from, it's only May. If this was a Cub message board I could understand but the way I see it we are far better next year than we've been the 3 and that's not counting on any more recruits. Hopefully Greene and Henry. I just don't get all the negativity on this board. We need to get and stay behind Geno and these kids 100% but a certain faction seems to not wanna. Don't get it myself. I know some are worried about attendance and rightly so but when we start winning that will take care of itself. It will be interesting to see if the ticket increase will lower attendance but lets wait and see before we hang the guilty with words.

Don't see anybody knocking Geno or the kids.