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Final score: Howard 76 Bradley 64

If we have another season like last year, our coach is going to be in the hot seat next year. Our program will not accept lucky seasons rarely sprinkled into multi-year stink fests. The years that I donate money 100% correlate with the years we are in March Madness. This isn't the White Sox, I am not content dancing once or twice every 100 or so years. Plus, I feel bad for our players. They come here because they want something special and I want that for them as well.

Oh well time to hit up some Bulls games, they are so much fun this year!
 
Losing to Howard (actually getting their ass handed to them) at home is never acceptable and instantly puts you on the hot seat IMHO. Horrendous basketball. Geno Ford type of a clown show.
 
I am as disappointed as anyone, but come on. Comparing this team after 2 games to anything that Geno Ford put on the floor is a little bit of a stretch.
It was a miserable performance, but they were missing 2 experienced starters, one of whom was a preseason All-MVC pick, and started 4 players who had never started a Division I game before this season.
Brian Wardle is not on the hot seat, regardless of what happens this season.
 
The Valley as a whole has been really unimpressive so far, so it's not just Bradley. The shooting will get better (can't get much worse), but the one thing that I think is really missing right now is a sense of toughness. Childs provided such a tough inside presence, and was a great rebounder. Preventing second chance points is huge when you're struggling from the field, and right now the team doesn't have anybody like Childs who can get the tough rebounds and help stop runs by the other team by keeping them off the boards. Hopefully somebody can fill that role down the road.
 
Coach's assessment was pretty dead on. Can't shoot and we can't defend the 3. That's a recipe for a bad day regardless of the opponent.

Positive takeaways - Mast and Leons are solid players and the effort is there. We just need to learn how to put the ball in the basket and things will start falling into place for us. BW is a great coach and will turn this around.
 
Da Coach said:
I am as disappointed as anyone, but come on. Comparing this team after 2 games to anything that Geno Ford put on the floor is a little bit of a stretch.
It was a miserable performance, but they were missing 2 experienced starters, one of whom was a preseason All-MVC pick, and started 4 players who had never started a Division I game before this season.
Brian Wardle is not on the hot seat, regardless of what happens this season.
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I agree. I get that we are all fans here and we want immediate results, but it is still November and much of the team with the exception of Mast, Henry, and Ville is new/inexperienced. It is going to take some time to figure things out. With the exception of last year's team, all of Wardle's teams had gotten better throughout the season.

If we are still playing like this into January (which I don't expect), then yeah we have a major problem and I'll start losing some of my faith in Wardle.
 
Rather start out slow and then get things gelling when the Valley season starts so Bradley can FINALLY contend for an MVC championship.
It's been 25 years now since we were legit threats halfway thru the season. I think we all agree that's embarrassing and time to turn that around.
 
Da Coach said:
Howard played at #5 ranked Villanova tonight, and hung close until midway into the 2nd half when Villanova went on a run to stretch an 8 point lead to 24 points. Howard continued their hot shooting. They shot 56.6% overall, and 12-24 (50%) from three.
Final score- Villanova 100 Howard 81
http://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=371357
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My son just told me this. I still dont like losing to Howard but maybe they were not as bad as we thought
 
bradleyfan124 said:
My son just told me this. I still dont like losing to Howard but maybe they were not as bad as we thought
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I like your positive attitude and agree with you 124. We're young and learning to play together, so we're going to struggle. They appear to be fast and athletic, so if BW can get the effort out of them (and I think he can), I think we'll be fine.
 
Tommy said:
I like your positive attitude and agree with you 124. We're young and learning to play together, so we're going to struggle. They appear to be fast and athletic, so if BW can get the effort out of them (and I think he can), I think we'll be fine.
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Wardle's teams seem to lose at the beginning of the season then get better at the end. Booby Knights teams did the same thing. I think the one year they won the NCAA they had 9 or10 loses all at the beginning of the season
 
Tommy said:
I like your positive attitude and agree with you 124. We're young and learning to play together, so we're going to struggle. They appear to be fast and athletic, so if BW can get the effort out of them (and I think he can), I think we'll be fine.
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Thanks for the compliment. I was told by one person I could find a white pony in a pig pen full of s**t.
 
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