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What would be a successful campaign for BU to you this year?

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We have made some changes and expectations for this team vary to some degree. The injury to WE could impact the expected results to some degree. Who needs to step up to make a large impact on this team. Will the new recruits help make BU a surprise team?

I had very high expectations, top 3, if JL was retained. Do we give GF a break? Are his recruits more a re-building project?

If AT steps up, we find a few shooters and just one of the freshmen steps in for some real meaningful minutes we can contend. Too me there are to many question marks on this team. TB is rounding back to form, a freshman will have to play meaningful minutes at PG, very little depth with bigs and no one has shown that they can rebound consistently. GF has his work cut out for him. While at Kent State he showed that he can take new teams in mold them into winners. I hope he can work the same magic.
 
I would say a 4th place in the Valley would be successful. I 'd say 5th place would be realistic. Any post season run (NIT or NCAA) would be a total surprise.
 
Guards - DSE could have a big year, might be tough being the focus of other team's D, and we dont have an PG that has played college ball.

Bigs - Prosser coming off an injury and Brown coming back from a year off along with zero proven depth means trouble.

I think Ford is building a team that should contend soon, but realistically I don't see us finishing in the top half. Hope I am wrong.

A successful year for me would be restoring dominance at home, proving that we can hold a lead, and making noise in St. Louis.
 
Staying out of Thursday
Sweep ISU
Overall winning record
(we could theoretically get into an EIEIO tourney with any kind of winning record, so if we do it we do it but I'm not overly concerned with it. NIT would be nice but holy crap the NCAA has made it near impossible to get into that as a mid-major unless you were on the NCAA tourney bubble)
 
I think we should finish in at least 5th place
We need to win all of our home games
Play better defense
Rebound much better
Hopefully be able to play more guys in the rotation
It is always exciting to see what a new coach can do as far as changing the offense and defense and what type of players he recruits to the program.
 
While I don't expect us to compete for league titles in the next 2 seasons, I would LOVE for us to remain in the hunt come Feb. 1st for a change - even if it means we're 2 games out of 1st place. That is more of a wish than an expectation this year, as I think we need to stay out of the Thursday play-in round for sure.

We need to make the Civic Center our HOME to defend, and like Geno said in his opening press conference, other teams should be a little timid coming to our house to play, thinking they need to play their best to have a chance to beat us.

I like what Geno's done at KSU, and if he's had that success in little time, I think he'll make an impact in 2011-'12. Some may differ, but our current core has the potential to be a Top 3 team, as our league looks so much weaker than 5 years ago. But, so many question marks with our newcomers and new coaching staff. And I would venture to say that more than half the Valley teams as are high up on their newcomers as we are. I think Geno will make better in-game adjustments than our previous coach, which will keep us in most games.

Here are my standards:

- .500 record or better in Valley play
- Winning overall record - only 1 home loss in non-conf. games
- Compete and stay close in almost all games
- Don't blow leads to eventual loss

Individual standards:
- Get the newcomers valuable minutes that will help them in years to come
- Big improvements in WL and AT
- DSE 1st team Valley player
 
sousaman2089 said:
I would say a 4th place in the Valley would be successful. I 'd say 5th place would be realistic. Any post season run (NIT or NCAA) would be a total surprise.
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Right on the same page with this one. Honestly though, if I can see good fundamental basketball, significant strides in some of the players, and just better overall functionality as a team I'd be very happy. No losses at home in the last 2 minutes, no epic defensive lapses, no chicken-with-their-head-cutoff offense when we are starting to lose a lead and can feel the panic setting in...no more of that...
 
Bradleyguy10 said:
Right on the same page with this one. Honestly though, if I can see good fundamental basketball, significant strides in some of the players, and just better overall functionality as a team I'd be very happy. No losses at home in the last 2 minutes, no epic defensive lapses, no chicken-with-their-head-cutoff offense when we are starting to lose a lead and can feel the panic setting in...no more of that...
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True that
 
TheAsianSensation said:
Staying out of Thursday
Sweep ISU
Overall winning record
(we could theoretically get into an EIEIO tourney with any kind of winning record, so if we do it we do it but I'm not overly concerned with it. NIT would be nice but holy crap the NCAA has made it near impossible to get into that as a mid-major unless you were on the NCAA tourney bubble)
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+1
This seems very reasonable. --Really hard to say as there are IMO a lot of unknowns out there.
 
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NO (MORE) MAJOR INJURIES TO PLAYERS During 2011-12 Season!!
 
LittleBrave said:
I liked those myself - the ones with the diamond pattern on the sides were simple, yet cool.
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I really liked the throwbacks we wore that had blue in them. I was also a huge fan of the black uni's.

Overall I think BU needs to do a rebranding campaign, the athletic stuff is alright, but our non-athletic logo looks like someone just typed BRADLEY into MS Word and set it in Times New Roman font... We desperately need to update it.
 
To me it is really too early to comment on what would be a successful campaign considering a new coaching staff and lots of new players. One never knows from one year to the next how much a player might improve (JC is my example for that), or how a new player might be better then we realize and we have had lots of example of that.
After some thought though I can answer w/ thoughts of my coaching days. My favorite saying to the players was I don't mind losing but I never want to get beat. This would make for a very successful season and no this isn't double talk. If I lost a game to a team that was better then we were I would never let that bother me but I hated to get beat by a team that was at the most our equal. (this is an area that has been one of the things that has upset me the most w/ BU the last few years were the games that got away at the end that were very winnable and we all know many of those happened especially at home). The other thing is getting out smarted at the end of a game and that also happened way too often.
Successful season:
Win the games we should and be competative in the others. (even steal a win or two)
Don't get out coached
Play "D"
Rebound Rebound Rebound
I really believe if we do these things we all (at least mostly) be happy.
 
amckillip said:
our non-athletic logo looks like someone just typed BRADLEY into MS Word and set it in Times New Roman font... We desperately need to update it.
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No doubt, amckillip. I like the overall design of the unis the past 2 years, but the "Bradley" needs a lot of work IMO.
But I'd rather have us win 20+ games with mediocre unis than to look good and look bad at the same time if you know what I mean.
 
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