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Ah...of course I had no backdoor knowledge. I thought that she was doing a fine job on the court.
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The Bradley women (1-16) are playing at Loyola (2-15) today in a battle of 2 teams with 10-game losing streaks and both are 0-6 in the MVC. They are playing for a chance to get out of last place. So far both teams are shooting very poorly in a low-scoring game-
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23-19 Loyola at the break. Any sort of a road win would do wonders for this team's confidence.Originally posted by Da Coach View PostComment
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Bradley wins! 46-45
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got nervous
BU lead by 7 with 4 minutes to go...but let LU back into the game. Still, BU played just enough defense and drew two very key charging fouls to hold on; last one was with 1 second to go in the game.
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Let the guys know how to win on the road will you girls.What part of illegal don't you understand?Comment
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For those who are friends of Paula Buscher- the job she is doing at SIUE is terrific. They won tonight to go to 8-1 in the OVC and 13-9 overall. Shronda Butts had 19 points, 7 rebounds, and now leads the team with a 14.4 ppg average.
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The Bradley women lost today at SIU 76-59. Bradley falls to 3-17 and 2-7 in the MVC.
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paula
Sorry Da Coach. I agree with you on most things. However, I don't consider a 13 and 9 record terrific. Obviously, her conference record is much better. Paula was at Bradley for several years and on average had a very mediocre record. She was never able to get the women's team to the upper part of the league with any consistency over the years. She is a good example of how average became acceptable at Bradley. She routinely was beaten badly by Illinois State. Of course she was much better than what we have now, but IMO, a very average coach when you consider the length of time she had to developed good teams at Bradley. I know that she had a little good streak going for a short period, but, overall, very mediocre.Originally posted by Da Coach View PostComment
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In Paula's third season, SIUE is 14-9 now, and 9-1 in the OVC, and she has a 9-game winning streak. SIUE's RPI is the 2nd highest on the OVC. I would consider that pretty successful for a school that is new to Division I, not known as a great school for women's basketball, and which does not have facilities anywhere close to those at Bradley. They were picked in the lower half of the league in the OVC preseason poll.
And regarding her time at Bradley, realize that Paula never got the advantage of recruiting and playing with the new facilities until her last couple years at Bradley, and that was not enough time for her to get the advantage of recruiting with the much better facilities. For most of her time at Bradley, the team had some of the worst facilities in the entire country. They even had to play games at the old, dilapidated ICC gym for a couple seasons while the Renaissance Coliseum was being built. I wonder how many coaches have had to try recruiting players when they didn't even have a home arena!
Add to that the budget she had to work with was less than half of what the current coach has been given to recruit and pay assistants.
Despite working with the worst facilities and one of the lowest budgets in the MVC, Paula put up winning seasons in 3 of her final 4 seasons at Bradley (the first Bradley coach to do that in 30 years), and back to back winning seasons in the Missouri Valley Conference. No previous coach in the history of Bradley Women's basketball ever had back to back winning conference seasons, whether it was the MVC or the Gateway Conference.
So the program was clearly on the upswing, but then just like the men's team, it was all undone by the untimely decision by the administration not to renew Paula's contract, because of personal issues and because they believed they could find a new coach who they thought could do much better. The fallout is massive. We've gone 25-55 since she left, despite the state-of-the-art facilities, and more than doubling the budget, and this year is an abysmal embarrassment.
I appreciate your opinion, but I'd take Paula back in a heartbeat.Comment
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dumping Paula was like dumping JL -
a move made in haste and based largely on personal pettiness not on common sense nor reason and made to placate basically just one person ...
- then it was followed by a desperate race to show off the prowess of picking a successor...regardless of how badly it got bungled and regardless of how badly it was gonna hurt us - now it'll take years to straighten out and get back on trackComment
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paula
Sorry DaCoah, Tornado...Paula was a very average coach. But, light years ahead of what we have now...Comment
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I understand - but it's that sentiment of misjudging who we have, and thinking we could do better in a heartbeat without even trying that has gotten us into this mess. (or these messes)Comment
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paula
I agree...but Paula had more than ample time to prove what she could do. She may have even been better than anything Bradley had previously. Goes to show you what little importance Bradley has put on women's basketball. I even agree that it would have been wrong to let Paula go for personality reasons but she still wasn't a very strong coach.Comment
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Indiana State 65 Bradley 55
Indiana State's center just killed us (20 points, 8 rebounds). Of course we shot 37 percent and made 1 of 17 3 point attempts....and committed 27 turn overs.
The team keeps making the same old mistakes...evidently the two road wins came from playing really bad teams.Comment
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