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    No this time it is not about Bradley. It is about Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Their AD just first Rob Jeter, and fans, and supporters are angry about it.
    They even have journalists at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel who have the integrity and guts to report the truth about the tyrranical AD there.
    This is worth reading-
    Milwaukee and Wisconsin news, sports, business, opinion, entertainment, lifestyle and investigative reporting from the Journal Sentinel and JSOnline.com.



    This all may sound familiar to Bradley fans.
    But the difference is that at least in Milwaukee, they have journalists willing to actually report truth and facts about what everyone saw and everyone knew was going on.

    In Peoria, we have no such thing. Sorry if someone doesn't like me beating a dead horse, but we still have never seen any attempt by the media to report the real truth about what happened to the Bradley basketball program, or to report the incredible financial malfeasance at the top of the administration that caused the Board of Trustees (made up mostly of strong supporters of JG) to take an unprecedented step of firing the President, the AD, and the Head Coach, and starting over again to regain legitimacy and respectability.

    But for some reason, the media members who were around the program the most, and who saw and knew what was happening, were more beholden to Joanne than to reporting the truth, and thus it still has never been reported.

    But reporters like this one in Milwaukee, and others around the country, show that most reporters want to report the truth, even if they have to work hard, dig to get to it, and even if they have to take chances and report facts from sources like- "one source close to the program who asked not to be identified out of fear of retribution."

    Also, in the last couple paragraphs- the writer reports that one influential donor at Milwaukee was snubbed and offended, and pulled back his donations of "about $50,000 a year". Yet unfortunately, that happened at Bradley with many influential donors, and our media has never bothered to report it.
    Multiple gifts of $3 million or more were pulled back over disputes with the former president (including Puterbaugh, Turner, Gough, and more), causing Bradley to lose tens of millions of dollars in donations. And that doesn't even begin to count the millions lost in ticket revenues and donations to the athletic department.

  • #2
    it's not a dead horse...the idea that JL should have been fired is certainly debatable, but...
    Every single bad thing that has happened the past 5 years still gets blamed on JL and even KK & Mo by our media...
    and they drool praise all over Glasser & Co...

    That is a must-read article on how the AD constantly sabotaged Jeter to hurt his ability to coach, recruit, or win thus using it against him to get him fired and make herself look good.
    Glad their media is calling her out...

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    • #3
      kinda of distantly related...

      but University of South Florida sent a coach and AD packing but now they are cited for breaking state laws with their payouts to both upon departure-


      but what the hey -- it's just those stupid taxpayers that are shelling out for this...

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Da Coach View Post
        ... Their AD just first Rob Jeter, and fans, and supporters are angry about it....
        Basically Milwaukee has been a mess since Bruce Pearl was there tampering with others schools' players

        If ever there was a perfect time for the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee to bite the bullet and take a huge and dramatic step, this is it. Now is the time for UWM to end the folly of a collegiate athletic program and get on about the business of building a reputation in some field other than women's cross country or swimming and diving.


        Scoring leader Avery Smith was tossed off Wisconsin-Milwaukee's basketball team Wednesday, a day after his suspension.


        Pearl has since gone on and destroyed Tennessee and is well on the way to doing the same at Auburn
        Their season ended with a little embarrassment and the loss of 12 of their last 14 games & 17 of their final 22.
        Recall, everyone was drooling over Bruce's recruiting classes and rebuilding!

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        • #5
          Didn't Rob Jeter apply for the Bradley job but decided against it when he heard about the tampering being done by JG. How ironic!!

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          • #6
            we threw a ton of $$ to try to land Jeter - offering to pay $700K when he was making only about $200K and wanted out of Milwaukee..
            And he came with desire to take the Bradley job but had chatted with a few other people first (as one might expect if you're making such a career-move and undoubtedly got an earful - but the offer was so enticing...) yet he got up & walked out when he heard the terms of working under the admin. You can fill in the blanks but the next dozen candidates also did the same and walked away from the $700-800K offer.
            Finally Geno musta thought the money would compensate for any negatives, so he took the offer - but now in retrospect, he made the very career-destroying move the others were wise enough to avoid.

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            • #7
              Yes. In 2011, after Scott Sutton flatly turned Glasser and Cross down because he was told he was not going to be allowed to hire his own choice of assistants, Bradley then made Rob Meter their #1 target. He was offered 3 times more than he was making at UW-M, but after doing some homework and calling a few people he trusted, he turned Bradley down, too. So did the next 6 or 7 coaches we targeted. It all related to the meddling and restrictions the admins stipulated.

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              • #8
                Here's more on how badly Rob Jeter was treated by his administration- sorry if already posted somewhere else


                ironic that by staying at UW-M, Jeter avoided the horrible treatment he'd have gotten here...then he gets similar treatment there at the hands of their AD

                btw- here's a summary of all the coaches fired & hired so far this year not much talk of Jeter going elsewhere yet..but he'd be a good choice for some of the smaller schools in or near the midwest where he's knowledgable in recruiting.


                Updated - noon 3/29
                Arkansas-Little Rock - Chris Beard leaving to take UNLV
                Arkansas State - John Brady retiring - Grant McCasland hired
                Central Connecticut - Howie Dickenman fired
                Central Florida - Donnie Jones fired - Johnny Dawkins hired
                Cornell - Bill Courtney fired
                Dartmouth - Paul Cormier fired
                Delaware - Monte Ross fired
                Denver - Joe Scott fired - Rodney Billups hired
                Drexel - Bruiser Flint fired - Zach Spiker hired
                Georgia Tech - Brian Gregory fired
                Jacksonville State - James Green fired
                James Madison - Matt Brady fired
                Maryland-Baltimore County - Aki Thomas fired
                Milwaukee - Rob Jeter fired
                Nicholls State - just fired J.P. Piper
                NC A&T - Cy Alexander fired - Jay Joiner hired
                Oklahoma State - Travis Ford fired - Brad Underwood hired
                Pacific - Ron Verlin fired - Damon Stoudemire hired
                Pitt - Jamie Dixon leaves to take TCU - Kevin Stallings hired
                Portland - Eric Reveno fired
                Prairie View A&M - Byron Rimm fired - Byron Smith hired
                Rutgers - Eddie Jordan fired - Steve Pikiell hired
                Saint Louis - Jim Crews fired
                St. Mary's - Randy Bennett negotiating with UNLV
                San Francisco - Rex Walters fired
                Santa Clara - Kerry Keating fired - Herb Sendek hired
                Southern Utah - fired Nick Robinson - Todd Simon hired
                Stanford - fires Johnny Dawkins - Jerod Haase hired
                Stephen F. Austin - Brad Underwood leaves to take Oklahoma St.
                Stony Brook - Steve Pikiell leaves to coach Rutgers
                TCU - Trent Johnson fired - Jamie Dixon hired
                Tulane - Ed Conroy fired - Mike Dunleavy, Sr. hired
                UNLV - Dave Rice is fired - UALR's Chris Beard hired
                UTRGV - fired Dan Hipsher
                UTSA - Brooks Thompson fired
                Vanderbilt - Kevin Stallings leaves to take over at Pitt
                Western Kentucky - Ray Harper fired - Rick Stansbury hired
                Wisconsin - Bo Ryan stepped down - Greg Gard was Interim - now hired as Head Coach
                Wright State - Billy Donlan fired
                Wyoming - Larry Shyatt resigns - Allen Edwards hired


                38 openings, 19 new hires, 19 spots still open, only two of the remaining openings are the "power conferences" (Stanford, Vanderbilt)
                Last edited by tornado; 03-29-2016, 02:06 PM.

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                • #9
                  here's more on Rob Jeter's firing and UW-M AD Amanda Braun..

                  a "blistering" attack...
                  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee basketball announcer Bill Johnson wrote a blistering Instagram announcing his retirement and targeting the athletic department.

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