Assistant Coach Brian Jones leaves BU

[Da Coach]

Bradley assistant coach Brian Jones, who served under Brian Wardle for just one season after Drew Adams left for Cincinnati, has left Bradley and will take an assistant coaching job at East Tennessee State University under new head coach Brooks Savage.
So Bradley now has one assistant coaching position open.

Looks like Bradley's coaching staff webpage is undergoing updating
https://bradleybraves.com/sports/men...etball/coaches

[Stryker]

Interesting. Not too concerning imo since Brian was only here for one year. Hopefully Wardle can fill the position with a solid hire before too long.

[64NIT]

I would think ETSU is a step down from Bradley.

[Old Coach]

I would think ETSU is a step down from Bradley.

For sure it is. The head coach only makes $240,000, so I doubt that the assistant salary pool is at the level of Bradley's.

[Old Coach]

Interesting. Not too concerning imo since Brian was only here for one year. Hopefully Wardle can fill the position with a solid hire before too long.

I think he'll be missed on the game scout side of things.

[BRAVE82]

Strange departure. As mentioned above, looks like a step backwards.

[Da Coach]

I think he'll be missed on the game scout side of things.

Yes, it is not a coincidence that the 2022-23 team did very well with Coach Jones on the staff. He is a very good X's and O's coach.
From what I have heard, he was not involved so much with recruiting. I don't know what the reasons were for him leaving, but he joins the staff of a well-regarded young coach at ETSU. Good luck Coach Jones.

[houstonbrave]

I agree Brian did seem like a
good X /O coach. I always viewed Drew as our lead recruiter and replacing him with Brian Jones seemed like it left a recruiting void although we seem to have done a pretty good job recruiting this year.

[64NIT]

Strange departure. As mentioned above, looks like a step backwards.

I wonder if there was a falling out between the two Brians which caused one to leave after only a year. Another thought is that he's friends with the ETSU coach. Strange move whatever the reason behind it is..

[Mikovio]

Could also be a situation where he'd be a coach-in-waiting whereas Bradley would make no promises that he'd take over if Wardle were to move on. Just speculation.

[houstonbrave]

I always wondered if Brian was a short term member of the staff. Drew left really late and Brian was available, 45 minutes away and familiar with Bradley and the Valley. Nothing against Brian Jones but for some reason I always felt he was a short term member of the staff especially when a former head coach at North Dakota and interim at ISU was an assistant coach while Foster and Bargen were Associate head coaches.

[64NIT]

Brian is apparently in the picture of the team that's in the 23-24 roster thread, as his name is listed in this tweet:

https://twitter.com/xb7/status/1651298944226304000

I don't know when the picture was taken, but the date of the tweet is April 26, just last week. Don't know what happened that he bolted out of town so quickly.

[tomahawk chop]

I agree Brian did seem like a
good X /O coach. I always viewed Drew as our lead recruiter and replacing him with Brian Jones seemed like it left a recruiting void although we seem to have done a pretty good job recruiting this year.

J.Howard would have been a better fit at Bradley then he is at SIU.

[Da Coach]

Brian is apparently in the picture of the team that's in the 23-24 roster thread, as his name is listed in this tweet:

https://twitter.com/xb7/status/1651298944226304000

I don't know when the picture was taken, but the date of the tweet is April 26, just last week. Don't know what happened that he bolted out of town so quickly.

Yes, the photos of the Bradley workout were posted by the Bradley men's basketball twitter account on April 26.
https://twitter.com/BradleyUMBB/stat...89316658642945

I suspect they were one or two days earlier at a spring workout of the team.
That would have been nearly a week before Coach Jones was hired by East Tennessee State on May 1. Thus he was still part of the Bradley staff at that time, and would have been there as part of his coaching duties. I think we are making too much of this change. I have not heard of any issues between Coach Jones and anyone else on the staff. He was very well liked by the players and his collogues, and a great coach. People change jobs for many reasons. Joining a new young staff at ETSU seems to me like a good move for him.

[tomahawk chop]

Yes, the photos of the Bradley workout were posted by the Bradley men's basketball twitter account on April 26.
https://twitter.com/BradleyUMBB/stat...89316658642945

I suspect they were one or two days earlier at a spring workout of the team.
That would have been nearly a week before Coach Jones was hired by East Tennessee State on May 1. Thus he was still part of the Bradley staff at that time, and would have been there as part of his coaching duties. I think we are making too much of this change. I have not heard of any issues between Coach Jones and anyone else on the staff. He was very well liked by the players and his collogues, and a great coach. People change jobs for many reasons. Joining a new young staff at ETSU seems to me like a good move for him.

I doubt there were any problems also, he could be leaving because the weather is so much better down there or many other reasons.