Former Bradley star Billy Wright let go by Western Illinois

[Da Coach]

Former Bradley star Billy Wright, who played for Jim Molinari from 1992-1996, and helped lead the 1996 Braves to their last regular season title and an NCAA bid and who was head coach at Western Illinois for the last 6 season was just let go by WIU.
Billy Wright was working this season on the final year of his contract, and WIU notified him they will not renew the contract-

Western, Wright Part Ways
Western Illinois Athletics will not renew the contract of head coach Billy Wright.​​​​​​​
https://goleathernecks.com/news/2020/3/3/athletics-department-western-wright-part-ways.aspx

Billy never had much success at WIU, a really hard place to recruit Division I athletes to because of a number of factors.
Here are his records-
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/western-illinois/

Good luck to Billy.

 

[Da Coach]

That was quick.... WIU just announced about 1 hour ago that Billy Wright would not be returning, and the Western Illinois basketball website has already deleted Billy Wright and all his assistant coaches from the 2019-20 coaching staff page-
The only names left on their 2019-20 coaching staff page are two graduate assistants and a couple student managers.
https://goleathernecks.com/roster.as...roster-coaches

 

[houstonbrave]

Good wishes to Billy-one of our own

 

[Stryker]

Good luck to Billy, never feels good to be let go, but WIU has had massive problems. Undergrad enrollment has fallen from just over 10,000 in 2012 down to under 6,000 in 2019. Over a 40% decline over that period and it declined 11% each of the past three years.

WIU seems to be in a free fall and who knows when they will truly stop losing students. It’s had a massive economic impact on the city of Macomb as well.

Hopefully Billy lands somewhere in a much better position.