Lawrence Wright and Zach Andrews inducted into the Yuba College Hall of Fame

[yoda]

https://www.facebook.com/doug.cornelius.12/posts/pfbid02ig4vDSBY4fuKkpi6wmCUb4usBT4adXaoNn7hH8gXwrY23GksaVKrdEhVnSn2V9esl?notif_id=1682383922730625&notif_t=tagged_with_story&ref=notif

[Big Mike]

Congrats to those guys....we were lucky to have them both....

[ManMythLegend]

Those two were fun to watch. Super athletic and just really down to earth good guys. Congrats ZA and Boogie!

[yoda]

There were two other Yuba kids that we almost had as a result of Jim Les' long time friendship with Yuba coach Doug Cornelius.
Sean Harris was a super-athletic wing player who committed to and signed with Bradley in 2011, but he went elsewhere when Jim Les
was fired. His college career was unfortunately cut short by injuries, but who knows how much he might have contributed along with
4-year starter at IU & Xavier Remy Abell.
..and also a knock-down 3-point shooter Spencer Butterfield, a career 43-45% 3pt shooter who ended up at Utah State when JL was fired.
Tyler Les was also a great 3-pt shooter (hit almost 50%) and, of course, we would have had Conference Player of the Year Corey Hawkins in 2012-14,
along with Dyricus, Jake, Walt Lemon & Egolf. We'd have had a Sweet-16 caliber team instead of what JKG & Mike Cross gave us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Butterfield

https://utahstateaggies.com/sports/m...0per%20contest...

[Da Coach]

In addition to Remy Abell, Sean Harris, and Tyler Les, there were a couple other pretty good players who would have played at Bradley if Jim Les had not been fired in 2011-
Corey Hawkins- he was set to transfer to Bradley, but instead went to UC Davis with Coach Les, and ended up with a terrific career. He was an Honorable Mention AP All-American his senior year, the Big West Player of the Year, the Big West scoring champion (20.9 ppg), and he lead the nation in 3-point percentage (48.8%). He would have been a star in the MVC, and a POY candidate.
Bio- https://ucdavisaggies.com/sports/men...ey-hawkins/394
2014-15 national 3-point stats-
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...alPct/dir/desc

Lawrence Alexander- few people know that Peoria Manual guard Lawrence Alexander was planning to commit and sign with Bradley in the spring of 2011, but when Jim Les was fired, he signed with North Dakota State instead in late April of 2011. It was the only other D1 offer he had. He had a terrific career there, averaging 18.9 ppg his senior year (2014-15), and being voted Summit League Player of the Year in 2015.
Bio- https://gobison.com/sports/mens-bask...alexander/5834

[yoda]

Also - here's one that I bet even Da Coach doesn't remember unless he heard it from Flash Flanagan back then...
Back in 2009, Bradley had a commitment from John Wilkins but at the very last minute - even after Wilkins was already on campus and enrolled,
the University Prez ended up vetoing and blocked his admission to Bradley, leaving Bradley with an open scholarship - too late to do much with it.
In the end, Wilkins went to juco then ISU, where he was a starter & hitting 38% from 3-pt.
But before Wilkins was banned, and while that scholarship was spoken for, Bradley had the chance to land an unsigned kid from Proviso West
named Robert Covington. Had our staff known earlier that she wouldn't allow Wilkins, and had Bradley gotten Covington, we can only guess...
Covington blew up a little over the summer after his senior season, got an offer from Tennessee State and went on to a great career there-
1748 career points, 18 ppg, 8 rpg, 42.2% 3-pt shooter, and is now in 11th year in the NBA- https://www.basketball-reference.com...covinro01.html

[houstonbrave]

I did just look up Yuba and Doug Cornelius is still coaching there. He has now been there 21 years.

[houstonbrave]

And don’t forget we would have had Taylor Brown for the 2011-12 season as well.

[yoda]

And don’t forget we would have had Taylor Brown for the 2011-12 season as well.

That was part of her plan to sabotage JL so she could muster support to oust him. Same with running off the assistant coaches & hiring who she wanted then barring Tyler Les from coming to Bradley.

And we would have had future NBA-er Alec Peters 2013-17, but of course, Geno & his crew deemed Peters "too unathletic and slow", so they yanked the offer and Peters went to Valpo instead.

[molar50]

Maybe we should start a new thread " Why I still hate JG" or we could get together and have some drinks to tell our stories. JG was a neighbor of mine for the first 2 years of her reign and I could contribute additional stories. But, I would need some alcohol to tell my stories.

[yoda]

Her first year or two at Bradley, her leadership, personality and drive impressed me as well as many others.
Had she only continued on with her Presidency the way she led the first 2 years, I believe she would have been a fine leader.
But starting in mid 2009, she totally changed. She became angry with (mainly) a few long time people in the Athletic Dept.
(** those details are fairly well known, having even been written up by Kirk W), and she snapped. She vowed to get even and "take them out". Literally everyone in every department & esp. Athletics was shaking in their boots and walking on eggshells
in fear of her wrath & meddling.

First was successful VB coach Scott Luster, then in rapid order came the firings of Ken Kavanagh, then all of Jim Les' assistant coaching staff, then successful golf coach Bo Ryan, then WBB Paula Buscher, then Bradley LEGEND Joe Stowell, then, of course, Jim Les and the new staff he had.
The people she brought in for every sport & the new AD were horrible and couldn't recruit or win games in addition to having serious
arrogance and personality issues and offending much of the fan base. She even had her staff investigate, call around and "dox" or identify the people on message boards that she believed posted negative things, then had her staff call them and demand that they stop - even threatening them with having their season tickets yanked or being banned from future games (just as she did to Board members she wanted to run off - I kid you not! There are people on this board who will confirm)
The most puzzling part is that the local "newspaper" kissed up to them & covered for her every step of the way and never even asked the question why this was all happening.

Then came the ignorant blunders that led to fully unnecessary, multi-million lawsuits. It's well documented that after a couple years of these disasters, Bradley forked up roughly $20 mil and bought out everyone's contracts and sent them packing. It's the biggest mass house-cleaning I know of at any D-I school ever. We can't forget history, but I am mostly happy where the house-cleaning has gotten us 8 years later.

[bradleyfan124]

Her first year or two at Bradley, her leadership, personality and drive impressed me as well as many others.
Had she only continued on with her Presidency the way she led the first 2 years, I believe she would have been a fine leader.
But starting in mid 2009, she totally changed. She became angry with (mainly) a few long time people in the Athletic Dept.
(** those details are fairly well known, having even been written up by Kirk W), and she snapped. She vowed to get even and "take them out". Literally everyone in every department & esp. Athletics was shaking in their boots and walking on eggshells
in fear of her wrath & meddling.

First was successful VB coach Scott Luster, then in rapid order came the firings of Ken Kavanagh, then all of Jim Les' assistant coaching staff, then successful golf coach Bo Ryan, then WBB Paula Buscher, then Bradley LEGEND Joe Stowell, then, of course, Jim Les and the new staff he had.
The people she brought in for every sport & the new AD were horrible and couldn't recruit or win games in addition to having serious
arrogance and personality issues and offending much of the fan base. She even had her staff investigate, call around and "dox" or identify the people on message boards that she believed posted negative things, then had her staff call them and demand that they stop - even threatening them with having their season tickets yanked or being banned from future games (just as she did to Board members she wanted to run off - I kid you not! There are people on this board who will confirm)
The most puzzling part is that the local "newspaper" kissed up to them & covered for her every step of the way and never even asked the question why this was all happening.

Then came the ignorant blunders that led to fully unnecessary, multi-million lawsuits. It's well documented that after a couple years of these disasters, Bradley forked up roughly $20 mil and bought out everyone's contracts and sent them packing. It's the biggest mass house-cleaning I know of at any D-I school ever. We can't forget history, but I am mostly happy where the house-cleaning has gotten us 8 years later.

I would not let her run a day care center

[Stryker]

Her first year or two at Bradley, her leadership, personality and drive impressed me as well as many others.
Had she only continued on with her Presidency the way she led the first 2 years, I believe she would have been a fine leader.
But starting in mid 2009, she totally changed. She became angry with (mainly) a few long time people in the Athletic Dept.
(** those details are fairly well known, having even been written up by Kirk W), and she snapped. She vowed to get even and "take them out". Literally everyone in every department & esp. Athletics was shaking in their boots and walking on eggshells
in fear of her wrath & meddling.

First was successful VB coach Scott Luster, then in rapid order came the firings of Ken Kavanagh, then all of Jim Les' assistant coaching staff, then successful golf coach Bo Ryan, then WBB Paula Buscher, then Bradley LEGEND Joe Stowell, then, of course, Jim Les and the new staff he had.
The people she brought in for every sport & the new AD were horrible and couldn't recruit or win games in addition to having serious
arrogance and personality issues and offending much of the fan base. She even had her staff investigate, call around and "dox" or identify the people on message boards that she believed posted negative things, then had her staff call them and demand that they stop - even threatening them with having their season tickets yanked or being banned from future games (just as she did to Board members she wanted to run off - I kid you not! There are people on this board who will confirm)
The most puzzling part is that the local "newspaper" kissed up to them & covered for her every step of the way and never even asked the question why this was all happening.

Then came the ignorant blunders that led to fully unnecessary, multi-million lawsuits. It's well documented that after a couple years of these disasters, Bradley forked up roughly $20 mil and bought out everyone's contracts and sent them packing. It's the biggest mass house-cleaning I know of at any D-I school ever. We can't forget history, but I am mostly happy where the house-cleaning has gotten us 8 years later.

I have to say, I graduated in 08' and had never seen or met the former president, but Glasser made a big positive impression on me her first year, which was my senior year. She seemed friendly, sociable, present, visible, and approachable. I graduated, and then like you said, it all changed. The first couple of years must have been a big charade, then the real her finally came out.

While we are talking about stories and having drinks, the way the JS covered it, you have to wonder if they were in her pocket somehow.

[PhiAlphaBoy]

... the way the JS covered it, you have to wonder if they were in her pocket somehow.

She could be quite charming when she needed to be, especially to outsiders.

[yoda]

the way the JS covered it, you have to wonder if they were in her pocket somehow.

The PJ Star was canning and laying off, everyone there was setting up to get a cushy job at Bradley,
which was how Joanne was buying the influence down at 1 News Plaza.
She gave some fat paychecks to people at PJStar who got pushed out - https://webcache.googleusercontent.c...&ct=clnk&gl=us