Bradley coaching staff changes

[Da Coach]

It was my first time, as we were in town for a baseball tournament at the Cincinnati Reds Youth Academy. My son did enjoy the campus visit. Everything is very close together considering how big of a school it is. Bonus: we were at the sold out Elly De La Cruz "Cycle" game against the Braves.

Nice! I've been to Great American Ball Park a number of times and always enjoyed it. The crowd must have been rocking for that game. It's good to see them finally enjoying a good young team. It's been a while for Reds fans.
And, because the University is surrounded by park land, the City Zoo, and a lot of historic old homes, and has had limited ways to grow. So it's now a school of nearly 40,000 students on a campus that's only a little more than twice the size of Bradley's campus.

It was just reported that Evansville will play a game at Cincinnati this coming season at the end of December.
https://twitter.com/AMFKristensen/st...66079359279104

I'd like to see Bradley get a game with Cincinnati. Does the Bradley staff have any connections there?

Also just reported, Cincinnati will be hosting another MVC team this fall. UIC will play there to open the season on November 6.

https://twitter.com/RoccoMiller8/status/1675966994577752065

[Da Coach]

Today, the Bradley coaches page was finally updated, and as noted here 6 weeks ago, Darrell Brown, Jr. is now listed as Bradley's new Director of Player Development, and Mike Black is now listed as Assistant Coach.
https://bradleybraves.com/sports/men...r#roster-staff

Darrell Brown's page-
https://bradleybraves.com/sports/men...brown-jr-/3439

Bradley is not the only MVC school to bring back one of their all time leading scorers as Director of Player Development.
Evansville just announced the hiring of D.J. Balentine as their new Director of Player Development.

https://gopurpleaces.com/news/2023/7/7/mens-basketball-dj-balentine-returns-to-ue-as-director-of-player-development.aspx

Balentine is the all-time career scoring leader at Evansville with 2,464 career points. He played from 2012-2016, and lead the MVC in scoring for 3 straight seasons, something only 2 other players have done (Larry Bird & Oscar Robinson).
Career stats- https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb...lentine-1.html