UC-Irvine 55 Bradley 47

[Da Coach]

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UC Irvine Rallies to Down Braves, 55-47

http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=209819018

[Vent]

The problem is not only with the men's basketball program. The men's baseball team wins games in the preseason when it plays a soft schedule and goes in the tank when the MVC starts. The women's volleyball and basketball programs are a travesty. Everybody is in agreement that Glasser, Cross and Ford need to go. What is scary is.....how did the Board of Trustees ever higher Glasser. They appear to be just as bad. The only people that may be worse are the clowns at Kent State that sued us for taking their coach. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

[patrick_o'brian]

47 points? Man! I don't know what else to say! You can't beat anyone scoring 47 points! You really can't shake this team up either because none of them work harder than the other to prove a point! Do you start playing walk-ons and starting them? I mean your savior PG has twice as many TOs than Assists? We have been told to wait for Sutherland. He is amazing! Well, that didn't work! I can't believe how bad it is! Our coach has an 11% win percentage on the road! I'm done. Be back here to bitch some more tomorrow! GO BU!

[bu fan 9]

Don't forget Elvis and the baseball program it's a joke too.

[TNel]

ouch - we lose badly to a very mediocre Big West team..
55-47

we are 4-7 playing UALR tomorrow

Dave Snell declines to give a Player of the Game! Says nobody deserves it...
We had better win tomorrow - if UALR clobbers us then I think heads roll early..

But who will have the ----- to do it?

[Da Coach]

Don't forget Elvis and the baseball program it's a joke too.

Yes, and the volleyball team went 2-26 this season, and women's basketball is off to a 1-9 start with the hardest part of the schedule yet to come. And it's not as if these teams just suddenly became bad. They have all been bad since the current administration took charge, and hired the new coaches.
Never in the history of Bradley have we seen such complete and utter failure under any previous Bradley administration. I would hope that if those in charge had any trace of dignity, integrity, or self-respect, they would resign, admit their failure, and leave.

[BU Bill]

I am anxiously awaiting the write-ups by Dave and Kirk. Will they finally find something to criticize? Or will they just keep making excuses for this failing program? I was just re-reading Kirk Wessler's last column- http://www.pjstar.com/article/201412...9/10964/SPORTS
"Tramique Sutherland is a potential game-changer for Bradley basketball. The Braves are a different team, a better team, than they’ve been at any point this season, and it’s because of Sutherland........ But this much is sure. Future opponents might as well destroy their scouting reports on Bradley, because the Braves’ offense with Sutherland operates much differently than it did without him. This is not the team that opened the season 3-6."

Will he print a retraction? Or will he keep telling us how much better things are? Somehow, despite the accolades heaped on him by Kirk, Irving did not seem so scared of facing Bradley with Sutherland. Man, do I miss Walt Lemon and the kind of players we used to have who had the heart and toughness to win.

[wily coyote]

That is an unbelievable 6-47 (.113) away from home.

That is just a little better than we shot the 2nd half. They are just plain phatic and I don't see them getting any better because in the past 4 yrs we've not seen anyone improve.

[Vent]

The people that have made the poor decisions contributing to the demise of the athletic department, will not resign. They will only leave when they are fired. I wonder how much longer it will be until Kirk Wessler and Dave Reynolds start writing articles as if they were employed by the Journal Star and not Bradley University. I have always enjoyed their articles but have to wonder, when they are going to start asking the tough questions as to why the athletic department continues down the path it is on. There appears to be no accountability. I'm not talking about attacking people's character at BU. That is not needed and doesn't accomplish anything. I am talking about how much longer Glasser, Cross and Ford will be given to do the job, they clearly are unable to do, as the record and facts show.

[Da Coach]

Story by Dave Reynolds about the Braves "faltering" vs. UC-Irvine-

http://www.pjstar.com/article/20141221/SPORTS/141229933/10962/SPORTS

Again, just as I expected, a long list of excuses, and not a single mention of poor planning, poor preparation, poor scouting, poor in-game coaching, poor player rotations, poor in-game adjustments, poor player development, or any other responsibilities of the staff. Only more blaming of the players and complaining that the shots were just not falling. Does anyone on this staff have a clue? At least this time, unlike the St. Louis game, Dave did mention that Irvine was playing without their best player.

[PistolP]

Does anyone know if Ford and the team have any goals? Seriously. Has he shared team goals for this year or past years? I agree completely with the dissatisfaction with scheduling. What AD, coach, player, administrator, etc. would prefer to play lesser (significantly lesser) competition? If Ford and the players actually have goals to win the MVC, make the NCAA tourney, (or realistically finish in the top 1/2 of the MVC) wouldn't logic tell you that you need to play a challenging non-conference schedule? What is the historical likelihood of more than 1 MVC team making the tourney? With the Shockers in recent control at the top, how can any other MVC team get an at-large bid without beating several non-conference opponents that are better than the rest of our conference! If it is unlikely to get an at-large bid without winning the conference or conference tourney, then you must ultimately beat Wichita. How are you going to get past WSU without experiencing some pressure against national powers prior to meeting the Shockers in the conference tourney? What about recruiting? Is Chin going into kids living rooms and selling the program on having the chance to play against Augustana and Eureka? I want to see us recruit and sign kids who are competitive and want to play against the best. Let's get someone with toughness who hates to lose. To Coach Ford- what can you possibly say about your results? These numbers are incredible. How can you not be completely embarrassed? Don't make any excuses. Look at the facts. Without ever watching a minute of Bradley basketball under you, any unbiased individual would be able to quickly determine from the results that this is obviously not working.

[LongTimeFan]

UCI 41 - BU 31 with 11:51 left
you just can't expect to beat many teams when you only score a point a minute
..we are a very weak offensive team and now there's nobody left to come back from injury or suspension -

t are you saying Jones will not be back this year? I did not know that his injury was that bad.

[tornado]

I don't know but we were 3-5 with him and he was 2-11 in his last game and played weak defense - can't imagine it'll make much difference.
I think our most highly touted players are all misjudged badly during the recruiting process.
How can an experienced DI head coach make so many recruiting mistakes and misjudge so many players? Even to the point of not knowing a player is ineligible until he's signed and on the roster.
Some of these guys have marginal DI talent - and others have little defensive ability.
And anyone on the street can see from their prior year's stats that players like Chris Blake, Mike Shaw, XT, and Jermaine Morgan were big guys who were unable to score.
And how many times has Geno actually said publicly that he discovered something unexpected after the guy got here - like Blake can't score or had less eligibility than anyone expected...or Bell wasn't the PG he was recruited to be...or Fields makes bad passes ... Amerson won't be eligible ...or Zecevic can't shoot, or Grier can't play defense...etc..

Then too often, when he realizes it - he runs the guys out of here and reloads each spring (Crawford, Shayok, Swopshire, Zecevic...etc..)
Many saw this coming 3-4 years ago - the media guys are only now figuring it out now that it's slapping them in the face.

[tornado]

...Dave did mention that Irvine was playing without their best player.

well their 7-6 center sat out,
but actually ALL THREE of their three top scorers (Nelson, Young, Ndiaye) were out to start the game..
Ndiaye, their leading scorer sat out the entire game, Young was out the entire 1st half (undisclosed reason), and Nelson had the flu all week, missed practices, and was hampered some & played only a bit more than half his usual minutes.
So the team we played was missing a lot of their key parts...

[BuB]

Tramique Sutherland was shaky in his 2nd start but still scored 12 points despite poor shooting. He did commit 5 turnovers but drew several fouls and got to the free throw line. He has to be better in taking care of the ball. If 2 of our 3 bigs could play below average, but still put up 12 points each, we would be a much better team. Just don't make them dribble.

Geno did say something to Dave Snell after the Eureka debacle I wish he wouldn't have said. He said (paraphrasing), " I probably shouldn't say this about Tramique but he will go his entire career at Bradley and not commit 5 or 6 turnovers in a game. I just won't happen and if it does it will be a fluke thing." Oops.