Re: Mo wants BU to fail.....
Re: Mo wants BU to fail.....
Murph said:
Quote......."anyone who says when they leave a place the way I left Bradley that they're cheering for that place is probably lying."
Right there it is, plastered on the front sports page of the Peoria Urinal Star. He must have really been squirming last year during the Sweet run....
Murph, that's not a fair nor an accurate interpretation at all of how Jim Molinari feels.
I have spoken with Jim many times since he left the job at BU.
In the first 2.5 years, he continued to live in Peoria and travelled extensively as a scout for two different NBA teams.
Then for the past 2 years he has lived in Minnesota.
He always asks about BU because he knows I follow them closely -- but he doesn't mainly because of the time he spends doing his jobs.
He keeps in personal touch by phone with those who he recruited (such as Heemskerk, PG, Gilly, AP) but he just doesn't follow Bradley any more nor root for them, as he has his own team (Minnesota) to devote his time to.
But he sure doesn't harbor ill will towards them.
On a number of occasions he has told me he wishes the kids and the new head coach well, but I suppose he does still harbor some feelings that he was not treated fairly by certain people at BU (meaning outside of the Athletic Dept.). He was fired right after being given a personal assurance by the highest authority at BU that he would be allowed to stay at least through 2003.
Even Jim's own kids have gone to BU games and they all love basketball and wish the players well. Jim also did say to the reporter (Mike Nadel) that he personally congratulated Jim Les for how the team did last year.
You will never meet a man who is of any higher ethical standards and who is any nicer to his fellow man than Jim Molinari, so I find it unfair that this article might cause some to think he harbors any ill towards BU or the people here in Peoria, because that is NOT TRUE.
What I do find odd is that of all the people to do this article, it was NOT one of the Peoria writers.
It was Mike Nadel, who writes for Copley but is based in Chicago and from all I can tell is sure NOT a BU fan or a Jim Molinari fan. He seems to write more about the Bears, Cubs, and Sox than just about all other topics combined.
Why didn't one of the PJ Star writers do this story?
I did an exhaustive search on all articles ever logged by Mike Nadel, I cannot find where he has ever written on Jim Molinari nor ever even mentioned Jim's name even in passing.
Nadel really never even writes on Bradley or the Big Ten either, so why him?
