Kirk Wessler

[VeveJones007]

I really don't see what's wrong with that article. It's 100% spot-on. Our defense has been awful all season, and our defense is why we lost on Friday. If we played any defense whatsoever, even with all of the injuries, we'd have 20+ wins and some sort of significant postseason coming. We have gotten what we deserved all season, and we did yesterday. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

I completely agree. If people want to look at this season and this program through rose-colored glasses fine. But don't hate the fans who expect and demand more from this team. I love Bradley basketball, and that's what makes it so disappointing.

I might feel differently about this team if I saw improvement from the beginning of the season to the end. But early in the year we saw this team dig a first-half hole against Vandy. We saw it in the middle of the season at ISU. And we saw it at the end of the season twice against Creighton. Those are all good teams and I'm not trying to put blame on anyone at all. I'm just saying that as a fan of BU, I'm disappointed because my expectations were higher. And it seems to me that other people's expectations were higher as well.

 

[Da Coach]

I am disappointed, too. But what I saw was that when Bradley had their starters healthy and not suspended, they were pretty good.

I know some won't accept this, but I can see this team easily winning 13-14 MVC games (and 22-24 overall) if they played all season with a full roster. That is where the depth hurt. We all thought the reserves would be more of a factor, but they weren't.

 

[BradleyBrave]

I am disappointed, too. But what I saw was that when Bradley had their starters healthy and not suspended, they were pretty good.

I know some won't accept this, but I can see this team easily winning 13-14 MVC games (and 22-24 overall) if they played all season with a full roster. That is where the depth hurt. We all thought the reserves would be more of a factor, but they weren't.

I agree. If this team was whole all year, I think 12-14 conference wins would have been attainable. But, at the same time, we should have won 2-3 more games even with the injuries/suspensions. Home games v UNI, WSU, DU and the Creighton giveaway last Saturday kept this season from being a feel-good story about overcoming adversity. Instead it's just a lost season. Oh well. Onward and upward.

 

[Lakeview Brave]

I am disappointed, too. But what I saw was that when Bradley had their starters healthy and not suspended, they were pretty good.

I know some won't accept this, but I can see this team easily winning 13-14 MVC games (and 22-24 overall) if they played all season with a full roster. That is where the depth hurt. We all thought the reserves would be more of a factor, but they weren't.

I agree if completely healthy we would have had more wins but this team was supposed to have talented depth. TCS and DC being busts hurt almost as much as the injuries. Also watching UNI tonight I really dont know how we lost to them at home plus we lost to Wichita both should have been wins with or without Ruff.

 

[ph]

I am disappointed, too. But what I saw was that when Bradley had their starters healthy and not suspended, they were pretty good.

I know some won't accept this, but I can see this team easily winning 13-14 MVC games (and 22-24 overall) if they played all season with a full roster. That is where the depth hurt. We all thought the reserves would be more of a factor, but they weren't.

We would have won more games with no injuries / suspensions, but I doubt we achieve the look of a legit top 25 team that we did achieve with the Creighton and Drake wins. We were not that good before Ruff's injury.

The Ruff arrest seemed to be the last straw, and we never played the same.

 

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I was just wondering, since before the tourney started, Redbird Coach Jankovich strongly suggested that there was no way Dom Johnson would play due to complications from a tonsilectomy. He played and played well. I assume, according to astute and all-knowing PJS columnist, that makes Coach Jankovich a liar.

 

[tornado]

Yes...not only a liar but unacceptable as a coach and a role model...should be canned immediately

 

[it's boogie time]

3)Implying that Bradley is running a "renegade" program because he is "hearing it again and again". Bull manure. Then he trys to lend credence to the inference by quoting some half-baked ESPN writer who obviously has no clue re Bradley basketball.

I take it you didn't read the end of the column:

"Do you think Bradley is running a renegade program?

No, I don't."