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Administration undermines basketball program then fires successful coach

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No this time it is not about Bradley. It is about Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Their AD just first Rob Jeter, and fans, and supporters are angry about it.
They even have journalists at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel who have the integrity and guts to report the truth about the tyrranical AD there.
This is worth reading-
http://m.jsonline.com/sports/panthe...ugly-ending-at-uwm-b99689757z1-372494571.html


This all may sound familiar to Bradley fans.
But the difference is that at least in Milwaukee, they have journalists willing to actually report truth and facts about what everyone saw and everyone knew was going on.

In Peoria, we have no such thing. Sorry if someone doesn't like me beating a dead horse, but we still have never seen any attempt by the media to report the real truth about what happened to the Bradley basketball program, or to report the incredible financial malfeasance at the top of the administration that caused the Board of Trustees (made up mostly of strong supporters of JG) to take an unprecedented step of firing the President, the AD, and the Head Coach, and starting over again to regain legitimacy and respectability.

But for some reason, the media members who were around the program the most, and who saw and knew what was happening, were more beholden to Joanne than to reporting the truth, and thus it still has never been reported.

But reporters like this one in Milwaukee, and others around the country, show that most reporters want to report the truth, even if they have to work hard, dig to get to it, and even if they have to take chances and report facts from sources like- "one source close to the program who asked not to be identified out of fear of retribution."

Also, in the last couple paragraphs- the writer reports that one influential donor at Milwaukee was snubbed and offended, and pulled back his donations of "about $50,000 a year". Yet unfortunately, that happened at Bradley with many influential donors, and our media has never bothered to report it.
Multiple gifts of $3 million or more were pulled back over disputes with the former president (including Puterbaugh, Turner, Gough, and more), causing Bradley to lose tens of millions of dollars in donations. And that doesn't even begin to count the millions lost in ticket revenues and donations to the athletic department.
 
it's not a dead horse...the idea that JL should have been fired is certainly debatable, but...
Every single bad thing that has happened the past 5 years still gets blamed on JL and even KK & Mo by our media...
and they drool praise all over Glasser & Co...

That is a must-read article on how the AD constantly sabotaged Jeter to hurt his ability to coach, recruit, or win thus using it against him to get him fired and make herself look good.
Glad their media is calling her out...
 
... Their AD just first Rob Jeter, and fans, and supporters are angry about it....

Basically Milwaukee has been a mess since Bruce Pearl was there tampering with others schools' players
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/panthers/96350354.html
http://onmilwaukee.com/sports/articles/begeluwmathletics.html
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/panthers/91777589.html
http://espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3099172&campaign=rss&source=NCAAHeadlines

Pearl has since gone on and destroyed Tennessee and is well on the way to doing the same at Auburn
Their season ended with a little embarrassment and the loss of 12 of their last 14 games & 17 of their final 22.
Recall, everyone was drooling over Bruce's recruiting classes and rebuilding!
 
Didn't Rob Jeter apply for the Bradley job but decided against it when he heard about the tampering being done by JG. How ironic!!
 
we threw a ton of $$ to try to land Jeter - offering to pay $700K when he was making only about $200K and wanted out of Milwaukee..
And he came with desire to take the Bradley job but had chatted with a few other people first (as one might expect if you're making such a career-move and undoubtedly got an earful - but the offer was so enticing...) yet he got up & walked out when he heard the terms of working under the admin. You can fill in the blanks but the next dozen candidates also did the same and walked away from the $700-800K offer.
Finally Geno musta thought the money would compensate for any negatives, so he took the offer - but now in retrospect, he made the very career-destroying move the others were wise enough to avoid.
 
Yes. In 2011, after Scott Sutton flatly turned Glasser and Cross down because he was told he was not going to be allowed to hire his own choice of assistants, Bradley then made Rob Meter their #1 target. He was offered 3 times more than he was making at UW-M, but after doing some homework and calling a few people he trusted, he turned Bradley down, too. So did the next 6 or 7 coaches we targeted. It all related to the meddling and restrictions the admins stipulated.
 
Here's more on how badly Rob Jeter was treated by his administration- sorry if already posted somewhere else
http://www.greenberglawoffice.com/uwm-basketball-under-supported-and-under-fire/

ironic that by staying at UW-M, Jeter avoided the horrible treatment he'd have gotten here...then he gets similar treatment there at the hands of their AD

btw- here's a summary of all the coaches fired & hired so far this year not much talk of Jeter going elsewhere yet..but he'd be a good choice for some of the smaller schools in or near the midwest where he's knowledgable in recruiting.


Updated - noon 3/29
Arkansas-Little Rock - Chris Beard leaving to take UNLV
Arkansas State - John Brady retiring - Grant McCasland hired
Central Connecticut - Howie Dickenman fired
Central Florida - Donnie Jones fired - Johnny Dawkins hired
Cornell - Bill Courtney fired
Dartmouth - Paul Cormier fired
Delaware - Monte Ross fired
Denver - Joe Scott fired - Rodney Billups hired
Drexel - Bruiser Flint fired - Zach Spiker hired
Georgia Tech - Brian Gregory fired
Jacksonville State - James Green fired
James Madison - Matt Brady fired
Maryland-Baltimore County - Aki Thomas fired
Milwaukee - Rob Jeter fired
Nicholls State - just fired J.P. Piper
NC A&T - Cy Alexander fired - Jay Joiner hired
Oklahoma State - Travis Ford fired - Brad Underwood hired
Pacific - Ron Verlin fired - Damon Stoudemire hired
Pitt - Jamie Dixon leaves to take TCU - Kevin Stallings hired
Portland - Eric Reveno fired
Prairie View A&M - Byron Rimm fired - Byron Smith hired
Rutgers - Eddie Jordan fired - Steve Pikiell hired
Saint Louis - Jim Crews fired
St. Mary's - Randy Bennett negotiating with UNLV
San Francisco - Rex Walters fired
Santa Clara - Kerry Keating fired - Herb Sendek hired
Southern Utah - fired Nick Robinson - Todd Simon hired
Stanford - fires Johnny Dawkins - Jerod Haase hired
Stephen F. Austin - Brad Underwood leaves to take Oklahoma St.
Stony Brook - Steve Pikiell leaves to coach Rutgers
TCU - Trent Johnson fired - Jamie Dixon hired
Tulane - Ed Conroy fired - Mike Dunleavy, Sr. hired
UNLV - Dave Rice is fired - UALR's Chris Beard hired
UTRGV - fired Dan Hipsher
UTSA - Brooks Thompson fired
Vanderbilt - Kevin Stallings leaves to take over at Pitt
Western Kentucky - Ray Harper fired - Rick Stansbury hired
Wisconsin - Bo Ryan stepped down - Greg Gard was Interim - now hired as Head Coach
Wright State - Billy Donlan fired
Wyoming - Larry Shyatt resigns - Allen Edwards hired


38 openings, 19 new hires, 19 spots still open, only two of the remaining openings are the "power conferences" (Stanford, Vanderbilt)
 
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