Bradley Train Wreck

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Re: Bradley Train Wreck

Postby rlh04d » January 29th, 2015, 6:29 pm

Does suspending anyone for Bradley even matter?

In all seriousness, they have two wins in conference and just got blown out, at home, by the next worse team in conference. They haven't won a single road game all year. Which one of their remaining games is even theoretically winnable at this point?

@ISUb - No.
vs WSU - No.
@UE - No.
@Drake - Maybe?
vs Loyola - If Doyle's back, no.
vs IlSt - No.
@UNI - No.
@MoST - Maybe?
vs ISUb - No.

IMO, that's a 2-7 record to close out the season at best, and probably better than a 50% shot to be 0-9. Doyle will probably be back in time for the Loyola game, so the only theoretical possibilities are @Drake and @MoSt. And, again, zero road wins all year -- hell, they're 0-10 away from home in general, with an average margin of loss of 11.6. I would consider putting money on Bradley to go 0-9 even with all of their players. They're 2-7 and this was the EASY part of their schedule, with three home games against Thursday night teams and @SIU. The hard part is now starting.

At this point Bradley can start fans and come out with the same record.
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Re: Bradley Train Wreck

Postby Trapped in CA » January 29th, 2015, 6:56 pm

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Re: Bradley Train Wreck

Postby pafan » January 29th, 2015, 7:23 pm

rlh04d wrote:At this point Bradley can start fans and come out with the same record.


At guard, a 5 foot 9" dude from Peoria, Illinois - he is
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Re: Bradley Train Wreck

Postby Play Angry » January 29th, 2015, 7:29 pm

Geno's buyout is expensive and BU AD is having financial woes. What kind of odds do fans give re: the ax dropping this offseason?

I would hope they can come up with the cash. Fan apathy is the most dangerous thing of all and it doesn't take many years without hope for it to set in.
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Re: Bradley Train Wreck

Postby squirrel » January 29th, 2015, 8:13 pm

Bradley WILL have a new coach in 2015-16.

The situation is wholly untenable.
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Re: Bradley Train Wreck

Postby Dean Wormer » January 29th, 2015, 9:38 pm

Play Angry wrote:I would hope they can come up with the cash. Fan apathy is the most dangerous thing of all and it doesn't take many years without hope for it to set in.


Yes indeed. See Evansville before and then after the Steve Merfeld years.
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Re: Bradley Train Wreck

Postby bufan42 » January 30th, 2015, 10:08 am

5 straight play-in years.

4 under geno ford.

This program is almost 100% irrelevant.

There will be a new coach next year and it desperately needs to be a guy that can instill discipline and credibility to what has become a laughingstock of a program.
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Re: Bradley Train Wreck

Postby unipanther99 » January 30th, 2015, 10:26 am

Can Bradley afford to throw a whole bunch of money at a guy like Tim Floyd and lure him out of El Paso? It's kind of got to be go big or go home time, right?
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Re: Bradley Train Wreck

Postby Khan4Cats » January 30th, 2015, 11:55 am

unipanther99 wrote:Can Bradley afford to throw a whole bunch of money at a guy like Tim Floyd and lure him out of El Paso? It's kind of got to be go big or go home time, right?


McDermott might be available. No more sons though.
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Re: Bradley Train Wreck

Postby bufan42 » January 30th, 2015, 12:46 pm

Khan4Cats wrote:
unipanther99 wrote:Can Bradley afford to throw a whole bunch of money at a guy like Tim Floyd and lure him out of El Paso? It's kind of got to be go big or go home time, right?


McDermott might be available. No more sons though.



The money will not be there to go after a name like Tim Floyd. They will be doing this next hire on more of a budget until this mess is straightened out.

Bradley needs a coach to repair this mess and get the program back to stability.

I hope they do not go after an unproven assistant in hopes of hitting a home run.

I would love to see Brian Wardle from Green Bay. He has rebuilt that program. Also would be excited to see Jim Molinari back in town.

BU needs a coach that has shown he can win and and will instill discipline
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