Incoming UNI recruit arrested

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Aarias Austin, incoming juco shooting guard from Gurnee, IL & DesMoines Area Community College - signed LOI last fall
..arrested & charged for DUI (OWI) and possession of marijuana (Possession of controlled substance)
..the arrest took place May 1 with news only now leaking out. Next court date June 1.

http://wcfcourier.com/sports/college/uni/mens_basketball/article_4f75d787-d7bd-52eb-ae14-fef3366a0afd.html#.VVt3_BQ0sAU.twitter

http://thegazette.com/subject/sports/uni-recruit-facing-owi-possession-charges-20150519

[AZ BU Fan]

Looks like a good candidate to transfer to ISU Red!

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this story went dead in a hurry - not a single thing, not a mention since the 20th - had this been a BU recruit (or even prospective coaching hire) in a different era, it would have been page 1 for two weeks..

[ncaafreak]

this story went dead in a hurry - not a single thing, not a mention since the 20th - had this been a BU recruit (or even prospective coaching hire) in a different era, it would have been page 1 for two weeks..

Let it go, JH would not had been some great hire for BU. I think they made the right hire, no matter what you think. By the way the man crush you have for JL is a little strange also.

[Da Coach]

Nobody here has a "man crush" as some of the JL-haters like to repeatedly say as a way of throwing insults around. But if it makes you feel better to take cheap shots at those with different opinions, go for it. I think most fans would rather have 20+ win seasons while playing good opponents, rather than 20+ losses while playing woefully bad schedules.

But the facts are pretty hard to deny- the President's firing of Jim Les over a petty personal feud lead to easily the worst 4-year stretch in the 112 year history of Bradley basketball, and the effects will linger for years. There were people who foresaw and predicted all this. Too bad those in charge and those who cheered them on, were not smart enough to see it. The departing administration's moves, including eliminating every event the fans liked, raising ticket prices in the midst of unprecedented years of record losses, and grossly overpaying for bad coaching and recruiting, has cost the University many millions of dollars, and thousands of fans. Maybe you were happy with these last 4 years, but I don't know anyone else who is.
OTOH, Les has taken a program that never had a winning season in D1, and turned them into a conference champion and a good program with an RPI Bradley hasn't seen since JL was at Bradley.

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But the facts are pretty hard to deny- the President's firing of Jim Les over a petty personal feud lead to easily the worst 4-year stretch in the 112 year history of Bradley basketball, and the effects will linger for years.....

if my admiration of Jim Les is a "mancrush" then tell me what you call some people's and especially the local media's worship of Geno and everything he ever did?

We now all agree, the Prez was fully willing to employ a poison pill and even risk leaving her legacy as destroying a solid basketball program just to tickle her fancies.
BTW- for those who like to trash Coach Les and attack his record- keep in mind that he was just about the only head coach in the history of DI that was required to work with the degree of oversight & imposed decisions he had- having even his assistant coaches, players & recruits chosen for him by admin.
The next guy had only a fraction of that same oversight but how'd that work out for the him?