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Bradley blown out by Loyola- Final- Loyola 64 Bradley 49
People like Da Coach and Tornado have always argued against the idea that Geno inherited a "bare cupboard" like the Journal Star reporters and Geno himself used to say. I would argue this team has players with talent, if not transcendent talent for this level. So if you add up the facts that he had players with talent and currently has players with talent and the reality that Geno can not coach becomes abundantly clear. I can't wait for the days when the Braves aren't coached by this hack, because then maybe we will be able to have a season worth holding our heads up high for.
I can't wait to see the laughable excuses coming from Geno, and his public relations experts at the PJ Star for this debacle.
I am sorry if others have heard this before, but I have been saying it from day 1- this is all fallout from a poorly planned move back in 2011 that never should have happened. Their coaching search was bungled badly because none of the better coaches wanted to work under our current AD and President, even when offered twice or tripling of their salary.
Bradley is in the worst possible position any Division I school could ever find themselves in, and it is all the fault of Joanne Glasser and Mike Cross. Bradley basketball (and nearly every other sport) is worse than it has ever has been, yet they are locked into ridiculous overblown contracts, and can't afford to do the right thing and fire everyone. Yet, there is no chance this will get any better, since we can't land any players who now want to come here, and we constantly get outcoached by everyone, even Division III coaches. Even if we could get players, the player turnstiles that see half the recruits leave within 1 or 2 years, and the abysmal coaching makes it impossible for any player to get better or for this team to ever see success.
Sorry Bradley fans, but the glory days, and even the days of being competitive are behind us now.
Anybody listen to Geno's post-game radio excuse show yet.....I wonder which one(s) he will use today? Personally, I like "Loyola is BY FAR the most talented team we've seen this year. We defended well, but struggled offensively". Or how about the well-worn classic "injuries are just killing us, Dave". "We're all looking forward to having Warren back on the floor soon". "Don't count on him for much, though, because I'm sure he will need a few weeks not knock off the rust".
Ye gods! Out-coached by Porter Moser. 65 year fan, 25 year season ticket holders. For auld lang syne, we'll be attending our last BU game Saturday night. Don't think this program can ever recover from this mess.
Because the Geno Ford coaching style is easy to memorize.....recruit poorly, don't prepare or execute a winnable game-plan, and make a million excuses for personal failure. No need for Cross to write it down anymore because it's always the same!
SIU at home - winnable
at Wichita -
Evansville at home
UNI at home
at Illinois State
..I really don't see us getting more than 1-2 wins out of those next five games...
so even if we go 2-3 in them, we start the Valley race at 2-4 ...and we're looking at another 20-loss season!
one more note....
To the guys who mostly post on TOB if they're even still interested in this stuff they're seeing....
- hate to say it but we told ya so - and have been telling ya so for 3 1/2 years - it'd be nice if you fessed up on how wrong you were...
signed - t, DC, and bu fan 9
Besides, Cross can't do anything about it anyway - he works for "her". Maybe Mike Cross ought to do a Q&A with bradleyfans.com - perhaps give his take on "the championship experience" that he envisions for all BU student athletes.
you don't think he ever really took notes, do you??
It was just a smoke screen to imply he knew what he was doing when he fired all the coaches in all the sports that used to compete at the DI-level in order to replace them all with coaches who cannot compete at this level...
However - the intervening time & events have proven the exact opposite...
We have good players, good athletes - there is absolutely zero excuse for the poor quality of play in every sport...
Even when we were losing one or two top starters for entire seasons - he argued that injuries were not an acceptable excuse - and yet now, with a couple marginal starters missing a few games with toe sprains, etc - we use the injury excuse all the time
For once Geno had no excuses. He said, "The offense took a step backwards and the defense gave us no shot to win." I think that pretty much sums it up. We were 3 for 19 from 3 and NO ONE from the 3, 4 or 5 spots shot a FT. How is that possible. Tramique is finding Division 1 basketball is a little bit different from Junior College. Chad said it best after the game and it's really been true for these last 4 seasons. We have a lot of individuals but we just don't play as a team. That's on the coaching staff and until that changes we will be doomed to Thursday night at Arch Madness and getting our butts handed to us on a consistent basis.
you don't think he ever really took notes, do you??
It was just a smoke screen to imply he knew what he was doing when he fired all the coaches in all the sports that used to compete at the DI-level in order to replace them all with coaches who cannot compete at this level...
However - the intervening time & events have proven the exact opposite...
We have good players, good athletes - there is absolutely zero excuse for the poor quality of play in every sport...
Even when we were losing one or two top starters for entire seasons - he argued that injuries were not an acceptable excuse - and yet now, with a couple marginal starters missing a few games with toe sprains, etc - we use the injury excuse all the time
T - I think my comment about cross taking notes was just sarcasm anyway. I really don't believe that he EVER took in-game notes to evaluate Ford's performance. I also don't think that he's hiding behind his own imperfections in the job - I say this because Cross and Ford aren't the ones to blame anyway. OK, so they're not GREAT at their jobs - I agree with that. But by all accounts, Cross didn't hire Geno anyway! How can this train wreck be HIS fault? Of course, Cross will shortly fall on the axe for this (sorry, Mike, but somebody has to be the fall guy) - but at the end of the day, we all know WHO the problem really is!!
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