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Da Coach, keep telling it like it is. That's what irks some people.
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It doesn't irk me. The fact is we don't know if we would be competing for a championship or not if those recruits came to BU or not
I'm sure we wouldn't do worse than now thoughComment
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One thing for sure, we wouldn't have three quarters of the Civic Center empty at game time.Originally posted by lefty View PostWhat part of illegal don't you understand?Comment
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Last night a kid from Peoria played 25 mins and scored 28 points. 5 guys playing 40 minutes for Bradley scored 39 points. Pitiful.houstonbraveComment
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That kid probably wanted to be a Brave at one time.Originally posted by houstonbrave View PostWhat part of illegal don't you understand?Comment
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he did- and the Bradley coach at the time also wanted him but someone else said "no"Comment
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That "kid" had 9 3's last night. Don't mind players throwing up the 3 if you make that many.What part of illegal don't you understand?Comment
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A couple remarkable stats DIRECT from NCAA official statistics page
Team shooting
#1 in Division I - UC-Davis 46.3% from 3-pt
#2 - is Idaho at 42.3% a full 4 points behind!!!!
Individual 3-pt shooting
#1 in Division I - Corey Hawkins 52.8% from 3-pt range
#2 is Quincy Taylor of Longwood at 46.8% - a full six points behind Corey!!
amazing how well they shoot and how far above the closest competitor!!Comment
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nice story on Coach Les
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UF Davis plays tonight sat UC Santa Barbara-
The game is streamed live for free-
click the UCD at UCSB link around 9 PM.Comment
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UCD absorbed a tough road loss but remain in 1st place in the Big WestComment
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I am not as plugged in as most of you guys are to the last 20 years of Bradley BB. Based upon listening to games and the way the team performed, I thought that under Coach Les Bradley was headed in the right direction. Now look at how well UC Davis is doing under Coach Les.
Why did Bradley give Coach Les his walking papers? Can someone clue me in?
Why in the heck we would hire a coach like Coach Ford over Jim Les is way beyond me. Les was a winner on the court, off the court and as the leader of our team. I always saw him as a class act. Am I missing something?Comment
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Everyone knows there was a battle of personalities between Dr. Glasser & Jim Les, and that for at least a full year before he was fired,Originally posted by pfcmsh View Post
the President was trying to get him fired and did just about everything she could to make it happen
...from denying recruits he wanted to forcing his own assistants out and hiring replacement assistant coaches that were not of his choosing.
With the help of a favorable Board that kinda looked the other way on a lot of her moves (thus enabling some very bad decisions
that now have Bradley in bad financial state as well as being terrible in virtually every sport) she was able to pull it off
in spring 2011 and then they bungled the search & hiring process and bungled the proper steps on the buyout - entangling the new coach as well as the University in lawsuits & threats of other lawsuits, some that still have yet to all get settled.
By then Bradley was not as appealing of a spot for potential coaching candidates (nor players/recruits), that many came or interviewed or were contacted about the job, but then turned it down after hearing all the details - thus forcing Bradley to really go down the list and hire a lot less attractive of a candidate than they had initially aimed for.
Some will dispute this account but the facts are there. Since 2011 - every single alibi that was used to fire Les (losing, playing on Thursday, off-the-court issues, can't use injuries as an excuse, attendance was slightly down, etc...) is now many times worse, yet amazingly, we hear alibis and spin - especially from the media that things are getting better, and that those who made all these bad decisions have actually done a great job
There was once a day when a home game vs. Indiana State or Evansville were automatic wins .. now we have to play the best game of the year to expect to get a win in such a game, and if we don't the media says we played good anyway and lost because of injuries.
BTW - in the FIRST EIGHT seasons Jim Les was here - he won the HOME game vs. Indiana State EVERY time..
and all eight were by double digits!!!!Comment
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Les seemed to be a great guy and a great ambassador for the university. He was an average coach with a great run in 06. He seemed to get out coached in games and pick up silly technical fouls.Originally posted by pfcmsh View Post
I don't think an average coach should have got fired with multiple years left on his contract and no real chance to utilize new facilities that he helped raise.
Jim should have been given another year or 2 to right the ship. Had he done that and I think he would have. We wouldn't be in this position.
However the people of peoria are interesting and have a strange perception of how things should be.
This got Jim Molinari and Jim Les fired too early.Comment
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