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How far has the Missouri Valley Conference fallen?

Bradley does this absolutely stupid thing where they fire successful coaches who have coached us to March wins. And then they replace them with some wimpy crappy replacement that's a total lap dog.

I'm just going to come out and say it. Bradley is the McCaskey family of college basketball.

I feel like our team is better this year. But ultimately, I don't see recruitment improving much so far. Its far better than Geno, but has yet to really land us a huge difference maker like PoB and the like. Our sports facilities were supposed to give recruitment this huge jump. It might have given recruiting a small bump, but it just doesn't seem to be the big push we needed.

The other problem seems to be culture. Millennial basketball players only want to play for the biggest schools possible. Great talent will ride the bench for 4 years, getting 5 minutes **per year** just to be able to say "Yeah I play basketball at Duke".

They don't give two cares in the world for anything else. This is the biggest problem
 
My concern is that we can't recruit difference makers to make us competitive in a conference that is rated anywhere from 9th to 14th in the nation. We don't need difference makers that can win in the Big 10. We need difference makers that can win in the Missouri Valley. I am beginning to question the ability of our coaching staff to evaluate talent. Not effort, but talent.
 
Hard to blame this coaching staff for the condition of Bradley basketball after what they were left with. Give them more time like BU has done with other coaches.
 
every one of these guys shot at least 50% from the FT line in high school- most shot 60-70%
so it's not lack of talent if we lose games simply because we miss our FTs

if we shot FT's better we'd be 7-4
 
Bradley's current coaching staff is not responsible for the current condition of the basketball program. They are responsible for improving the condition of the basketball program. That includes getting better players, most notably shooters. It is time to start getting them. Consistently poor to mediocre free throw shooters equate to consistently poor to mediocre basketball teams.
 
every one of these guys shot at least 50% from the FT line in high school- most shot 60-70%
so it's not lack of talent if we lose games simply because we miss our FTs

if we shot FT's better we'd be 7-4

Shooting 50% to 60% on free throws is not good. Especially from guards and forwards that play on the wing. Shooting 70% on free throws is good. If you lose games simply be missing free throws, it means you have players that can't shoot free throws. That is part of having talent. You're right...if we shot free throws better we'd be 7-4. It's also correct that the dog would have caught the rabbit if it didn't stop to go to the bathroom.
 
Even without playing any games yesterday, the MVC drops to 12th place in RPI (since RPI is partly dependent on the wins & losses of your opponents).
http://warrennolan.com/basketball/2017/conferencerpi

There are 5 conferences very close to one another, so the MVC could rise back to 10th or drop down as far as 14th very easily. It depends heavily on how the MVC teams do in these next couple weeks with their final non-conference games.
Once conference games start, there won't be as much chance of big changes, since for every win by an MVC team, there will also be a loss.


The MVC is starting today as the 11th ranked conference-
http://scores.nbcsports.msnbc.com/cbk/scoreboard.asp?conf=021&day=20161217

With several of today's MVC games against good opponents, the MVC probably will raise their RPI. But they could make a big jump with some key wins.
 
The non-conference schedule is almost complete.
The Illinois State -Tulsa game Sunday in the 3rd place game of the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic is the only non-conference game left for MVC teams.
The MVC has fallen back to the 12th place Conference in RPI-
http://warrennolan.com/basketball/2017/conference/Missouri-Valley

I do not recall the last time the MVC had no teams in the top 70 in RPI, and 12th place is as low as I can recall the MVC has ranked in more than 20 years.
 
Did we think The Shock would be a top 10 team after Baker and Van Fleet were gone? I did not. Them and UNI have fallen the farthest but they were the highest with the biggest cliff to fall off of. ISU red has a lot of potential.

Loyola is as good as they have been since joining the conf . Tip of the cap to Porter.

We are headed in the right direction.

Missouri St is the real deal.... IMO

Rankings schmankings...... Come March. UNI, Shock , Loyola, MSU and the birds will all be fine and win some games in some post season tourneys.

I predict.

Shock , because they've earned to be the fav untill someone dethrones them
ISU Red,
Loyola
MSU
UNI
BU
Aces
ISU blue
SIU
Drake
 
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