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you can listen for yourself and select any coach - but here's a summary of what Coach Wardle said...not necessarily verbatim but what he said..
1st question from SIU's Todd Hefferman:
"How did you decide how you were going to put your team together with so many open scholarships and so little time?"
Answer- "sat down with staff, decided who to target based on our info, aimed specifically for high character, best talent available then went after them - roughly half guards & half frontcourt players - got them to campus and sold them on the program as a great place to develop."
2nd- Any difference from how things were at Green Bay?
Answer- Guards in the Horizon were as good as guards even in big conferences but the difference in the MVC is you need big guys and talented big guys.
One other difference is the facilities at BU are outstanding and help sell the kids -
wouldn't have landed some of these kids without the great facilities.
3rd question- from Dave Reynolds - "What are your perspectives as the 'new kid on the block' in the MVC?"
Coach Wardle answers that he doesn't feel so unfamiliar because of all his past relationships with guys from the Valley like Marty Simmons, Porter Moser, etc...
But he relates he's been so busy and working hard that the sense of being new here has already kinda long wore off.
4th from Wichita's Paul Suellentrop..
"What kind of sense do you have as to how Bradley fits in to the community?"
This question caused Coach Wardle to go off extensive with compliments about the great fans that are intensely interested in Bradley basketball - almost as if he's unfamiliar with year-round fans...
He can't even stop to fill his tank at a gas station that some fan doesn't corrall him to talk Bradley basketball...and he thinks this is great - and that it is something the potential recruits see and are substantially impressed by favorably.
Enthusiasm, passion, great fans - he used those terms many times...
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