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Two pretty good articles....seems the process was really thought out and it sounds like this could keep things rolling right along!
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Two pretty good articles....seems the process was really thought out and it sounds like this could keep things rolling right along!
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Both are great articles.
One thing I noted that was curious was this paragraph from Kirk Wessler's column--
Merfeld brings to Bradley a reputation as a solid and adaptable coach. His 54-91 record at Evansville should reflect more on the school than on Merfeld. Beyond 11,000-seat Roberts Stadium, Evansville's program is resource-challenged. And longtime MVC insiders privately have expressed concern that the perennial shortage of African-American players on the Aces roster may be by institutional design
I don't get why that was thrown into an otherwise very positive and complimentary column about Merfeld. It sounds like he's casually accusing Steve Merfeld of racism!
If what KW is alleging is true, then he and other members of the press should be reporting and investigating this issue much more aggressively. Yet this is the first I have heard this.
Jim Crews had an unusual percentage of non-minorities when he was coach, but that had a lot more to do with the style of play he employed. There is also the location of the school-- probably the farthest in the MVC from major urban population areas.
Also, Merfeld recruited a lot of African-Americans, but a bunch of them have left the team or been kicked off for various reasons. (Maurice Blakey, Tory Robertson, Robert Nelson, Dupree Fletcher, and Marcus Butler are just some of the minority players who have left the team the last few years due to academic, or legal problems).
By the way, I count 7 black players on the 2006-2007 Evansville roster, Merfeld's last team. That's the same or more than on last year's Drake team, Indiana State team, and UNI team. So where is the evidence of this? -
Hmmmm, DC.... interesting.
KW states "longtime MVC insiders privately have expressed concern". Who might these people be?Comment
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Duke perennially has more non-minorities on their roster and fewer minorities than many/most D-I teams.
This season Duke has
10 white players and
4 Black players
PLUS-- of the six seniors who left Duke last year ('05-'06) four of them were white as well!
and one of the present Black players is only 1/2 African American as I have seen his family when shown on the televised games and one of his parents is white.
So where is the outrage against Mike Krzyzewski?
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Re: 6/1 PJS on Merfeld
Where is Dave Reynolds?Originally posted by Big Mikehttp://www.pjstar.com/stories/060107...CJKTFD.073.php
Two pretty good articles....seems the process was really thought out and it sounds like this could keep things rolling right along!
Isn't he the Bradley "beat writer"?
Is he gone on vacation or ill?Comment
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DC..I took it as a shot at UE NOT Merf.Comment
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But Merf has been their head coach for the last 5 years. Any recruiting policy would have been directly attributable to him. Otherwise, how does anyone else at UE have any say in who he or any of the other coaches there recruit? If there is some "institutional design", Merfeld would have had to be part of it.
Note that Lennox Forrester was a player and an assistant there for a long time, and their teams have always featured some very good African-American players. I can list them if anyone cares, but UE is far from the MVC team I would think of if someone thought a Valley team was guilty of institutional bias.Comment
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I saw over on the ISU board that they are really ripping this choice.
Funny how a school with several successive bad choices for head coach and a perennial bottom feeder should kind of get their own house in order before criticizing a team with consecutive 22 win seasons.
By the way, didn't they have an assistant (Jans), an ex-Chipola junior college coach, who they hired to try to land some of the Chipola talent?
How many did he get?Sign in front of the Peoria Journal Star
also add "Price Slashed"Comment
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Hate to nit-pick, but Drake had 9 black players on the team last season.Originally posted by Da CoachComment
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You'll have to help me DUB, because I count fewer than 9, although it is hard due to the fact the pics aren't up on the web site.
Calvin, Grant, Houston, Keita, Stewart, Traora dit Nignan, Young...who else? You can't count Bryant, he left too long ago.
By the way, once they get the kinks out, the new Drake web site is nice and brings it into the 21st century!Comment
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Why shouldn't I count Bryant? He was talking about the 2006-07 season, and Bryant was on the team for 80% of the season. I suppose that if you want to rephrase it to "at the end of the 2006-07 season", then I'd agree about Bryant. The 9th is Bill Eaddy, a seldom-used freshman forward. Either way, Da Coach's statement was incorrect.Originally posted by tornado
Drake fans were initially enthused about the website, but it's been up for a couple of months, and it still has all the same kinks that it did the day it went up. I don't know if it's a problem in Drake's athletic department, or if it's a problem with the website design firm. I agree it will be nice, IF they ever get the kinks worked out.Comment
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Those comments were tongue-in-cheek on rbf. They were more of a pre-emptive strike against this guy called Reggieman that posts on there from time to time. He was shredding the Parham hiring and has logged on at various times to spout non-sensical BS. This was done in response to that.Originally posted by Average Joe
I know the remarks on rbf were in jest only and no harm was meant.
Dinma Odiakosa 6'8 255......The Nigerian Nightmare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 37 points and 27 boards in 2 wins over Bradley. "Will Egolf is 6'9 and he had 4 rebounds. That's not good enough and he's not good enough"....Dick Versace 2/9/10Comment
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That is the way I took it. I don't think the head coach of any team is setting institutional policies.Originally posted by dogsrus
About a month ago, I was in Evansville and drove past the campus. If you though BU was small, which it is compared to many state schools, UE is tiny. There is a nice complex for their soccer and baseball teams on campus. There were also "Welcome back Marty" billboards around town.1996 & 2019Comment
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If you are serious about this, then I find a little loss of credibility.Originally posted by DannyCooksey
According to your own site, the guy named "reggieman"
has only posted four times in all the time that your board has saved posts, which go back to March. Here is the full tally of all his posts, see for yourself.
And he has only posted one lone time on the subject of Parham, and here is an exact cut and paste of his sole Parham-related post:
So you equate this with "shredding"?Just wanted you to see the Bradley perspective
but this hire was predicted 2 months ago
http://www.bradleyfans.com/phpbb/vie...?p=48318#48318
And please point out the non-sensical entries?
I dare say there's nothing there by reggie that is any more non-sensical or along the line of shredding that what you and many ISU fans post here on BradleyFans, don't you think?Comment
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Alright, I did the best I could considering the roster doesn't have pictures. But here is the Drake roster from 2006-2007. The African-Americans I count from my recollection of seeing them play are Ajay Calvin, Nick Grant, Leonard Houston, Aliou Keita, Al Stewart, Armel Traore dit Nignan, and Josh Young.Originally posted by DUBulldog
That was the 7 I counted before. I see you conted Bryant, and I didn't because he doesn't even appear on Drake's own website's roster. But then he would be 8, and Eaddy would be 9. I didn't remember seeing him play.
By the way, Calvin, Grant, Keita, Stewart, and Traore dit Nignan were all seniors. So 5 of the 7 I listed will be gone next season.
I count at least 2 African Americans in the 2007 recruiting class (Parker and Faines). But that still leaves fewer next year?--
Ryan Daniels, Wendell Faines, John Michael Hall, Josh Parker, Alex White.Comment
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