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Just came from the Bradley Braves Sponsor Luncheon put on by WMBD radio at Barracks Cater Inn. Jim Les was a little late. He started his speech by saying that he was sorry he was late because he had been at the hospital with AW. He has a stress fracture in a foot and Dr. Maxey is putting a pin in right now. Should only be down 3 to 4 weeks and back to 100% before the exhibition schedule. Both JL and CB had very good things to say about all the new guards. Also that WE is looking good. Dave Snell talked about the quickness on defense from all the guards. Saluki like is the term he used. No one seems too worried about Andrew.

JL said scheduling is very hard. Izzo said he is never coming back, and told everyone it is a tough place to win. DePaul won't talk about coming to Peoria. That is the curse of winning at a high % at home he said. JL had to leave right after his speech to see a recruit in Chicago.
 
I wonder what recruit he would want to go see in Chicago?????? Any ideas, come on there has to be some idea about who it might be........let me think..............I think I might have figured it out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
mexicobufan said:
I wonder what recruit he would want to go see in Chicago?????? Any ideas, come on there has to be some idea about who it might be........let me think..............I think I might have figured it out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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hmmm... I hope you are right.;-):mrgreen::idea:
 
Gwright said:
:eek: me after word of stress fractures, Praying that this doesn't linger.
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I hope not either. However, I'm guessing that if the staff did think it were serious, Coach Les would not have disclosed it freely to the public. Or, at least, he wouldn't have said anything right from coming to the hospital.
 
Darius Smith to the office please. You have a visitor.

AW will be fine I think. My only worry is losing amonth of conditioning.
 
Im glad to hear this is only a stress fracture. I remember last year AW broke his thumb, which is strange because in the last 2 years I broke my thumb and stress fractured my foot. I don't think the foot is much to worry about as I remember being able to use it pretty extensively after a month or so.
 
I don't pay much attention to other teams, but it seems like BU has been very prone to early season stress fractures of the foot to star guards over the last decade. Anthony Parker, Phillip Gilbert, and now Andrew Warren. Uggh.
 
Injuries are never good...but it's much, much better to have this happen in September rather than in December or January...
 
BradleyBrave said:
I don't pay much attention to other teams, but it seems like BU has been very prone to early season stress fractures of the foot to star guards over the last decade. Anthony Parker, Phillip Gilbert, and now Andrew Warren. Uggh.
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I completely agree, but atleast on the surface, the team seem deeper and more prepared to absorb this type of an injury this early then Parkers team or Gilberts... when they got hurt and it was in season it just destroyed those teams.
 
Wow....I sure hope this doesn't turn out to be a season long problem for AW.....we will need his scoring and D' to compete IMO! :wink:
 
Hope AW can heal quickly and that it doesn't linger.

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JL said scheduling is very hard. Izzo said he is never coming back, and told everyone it is a tough place to win. DePaul won't talk about coming to Peoria. That is the curse of winning at a high % at home he said. JL had to leave right after his speech to see a recruit in Chicago.
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That's too bad... My respect level is officially decreased on Tom Izzo.
 
thefish7 said:
That's too bad... My respect level is officially decreased on Tom Izzo.
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Why? He did what about 99% of the BCS coaches refuse to do, and that's come to Peoria and play a game. I really don't think anyone should be surprised - Carver Arena is a darn tough place to play, and last time I checked, every team in America tries to avoid places where they 'can't win'. Izzo knows they escaped with a quality road win, and likely wouldn't be so lucky their next visit. You won't find another coach of a Top 10 program who would have come to Peoria, and I think for that the respect for Izzo should be going way up, rather than diminishing.
 
BradleyBrave said:
Why? He did what about 99% of the BCS coaches refuse to do, and that's come to Peoria and play a game. I really don't think anyone should be surprised - Carver Arena is a darn tough place to play, and last time I checked, every team in America tries to avoid places where they 'can't win'. Izzo knows they escaped with a quality road win, and likely wouldn't be so lucky their next visit. You won't find another coach of a Top 10 program who would have come to Peoria, and I think for that the respect for Izzo should be going way up, rather than diminishing.
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Ditto.
 
New Guy said:
Izzo said he is never coming back, and told everyone it is a tough place to win. DePaul won't talk about coming to Peoria. That is the curse of winning at a high % at home he said.
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I agree that my respect for Izzo would go up after a comment like that. While most fans of MSU would like to forget the game, claim they would win anyway, etc. he admits that it was tough. And that he doesn't want to do it again (don't blame him!).

The only thing that I could see to cause a drop in respect for Izzo is if he was telling all of his coaching-friends not to come play here and "sabotaging" (yes, slight exaggeration) our ability to have a strong BCS-caliber schedule. But that doesn't seem like an Izzo thing to do.
 
jeffsu said:
The only thing that I could see to cause a drop in respect for Izzo is if he was telling all of his coaching-friends not to come play here and "sabotaging" (yes, slight exaggeration) our ability to have a strong BCS-caliber schedule. But that doesn't seem like an Izzo thing to do.
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Well, unless he's lying to his coaching cronies, I am guessing that's he's saying it's a darn tough place to play. That's going to scare away 99% of the BCS coaches. I don't think he's 'sabotaging' us; rather just telling the truth.
 
Let me rephrase -- I don't think it's a big deal if he, while talking to other coaches, mentions it was tough as heck to play here. That actually is pretty complimentary of us.

It would just irk me if he was making a point to go out and tell everyone he knows not to come here. He would know that would make it difficult for us to schedule. But again -- I doubt that's the case. I like to believe Izzo's a good guy :)
 
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