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It Just Not Right

squirrel said:
What are the expectations for the fourth year removed from the Sweet 16? (which is next season) Personnel losses should not matter, right?
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You might want to take a look at mid-major teams that have gone to the Sweet 16 for the first time in a while in their respective school's history in the past and review their records 4-5 years beyond that NCAA appearance.. It is truly hit and miss...
 
Bravesfan said:
Okay, you know what? What happened happened. We still have a chance for a decent season. We can't harp on this. We have a good shot of winning one or two more road games which will position ourselves nicely for St. Louis and a shot at the NIT at the very least. Still not a bad year considering the injuries and other bad luck. And I agree with most that next year will be the year to see if we make a breakthrough or not.

We can still salvage this year however, and harping on the past won't help. Let's just try to win tomorrow night at Drake and take things from there.
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Harping, who me:doubt: Next time your wife comes home with the car wrecked and it wasn't her fault, I can hear you now, honey its OK:roll:
I agree with you on this year, I am not giving up, never have and thats why I am praying to the BB Gods:lol:
 
When a heap of things go bad, it's hard to see some of your fortunate breaks, but there are a few.

1. Catching MOSt at their place without Cooks.
2. Catching WSU at their place before they figured things out.
3. Oguchi hurting his back the night before the game at Carver.
4. Catching ISU blue at their place without Marshall and with Thunnel sick.

You could also add playing a dysfunctional SIU at Carver before they got rid of Roundtree and Cornelius. Also caught Creighton without Woodfox.
 
Heymoodwah said:
When a heap of things go bad, it's hard to see some of your fortunate breaks, but there are a few.

1. Catching MOSt at their place without Cooks.
2. Catching WSU at their place before they figured things out.
3. Oguchi hurting his back the night before the game at Carver.
4. Catching ISU blue at their place without Marshall and with Thunnel sick.

You could also add playing a dysfunctional SIU at Carver before they got rid of Roundtree and Cornelius. Also caught Creighton without Woodfox.
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Good post, I guess it works both ways.
 
Heymoodwah said:
When a heap of things go bad, it's hard to see some of your fortunate breaks, but there are a few.

1. Catching MOSt at their place without Cooks.
2. Catching WSU at their place before they figured things out.
3. Oguchi hurting his back the night before the game at Carver.
4. Catching ISU blue at their place without Marshall and with Thunnel sick.

You could also add playing a dysfunctional SIU at Carver before they got rid of Roundtree and Cornelius. Also caught Creighton without Woodfox.
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Excellent post. Welcome to the board.
 
Lakeview Brave said:
It is absouletely wrong that JM refused to recruit local players, I know for a fact he tried hard to get the local talent.

Would you have prefered we lost to Kansas and POB stayed?
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I know a manual high school player who went to eastern illinois because coach mo said he didnt want to recruit local players because he didnt want to hear *****ing from local fans if things didnt work out. And dont think he wasnt good enough to play at bradley. He was good enough to play for the Peoria kings!

What local talent did he ever get?
 
TINMAN76 said:
I know a manual high school player who went to eastern illinois because coach mo said he didnt want to recruit local players because he didnt want to hear *****ing from local fans if things didnt work out. And dont think he wasnt good enough to play at bradley. He was good enough to play for the Peoria kings!

What local talent did he ever get?
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Mo didn't like recruiting local players, he always said there's too much pressure on him to play them and too much pressure on the kids to perform. Versace never recruited many local players either, the only one I remember off hand was Trevor Trimpe.

I don't care where they come from as long as they're good students and can play.
 
Don't forget Eddie Matthews from Brimfield, and Gus Mason from Peoria. They were Versace recruits.
Dick concentrated on Chicago, and by 1984-85 season more than half of the roster (8 players) were Chicago kids.
 
I'm with Murph. I don't care where they come from as long as they can play, get good grades, and keep their nose clean.

Both Mo and Les had decent players.

BU is cursed by being the lone program in such a hoops hotbed, in that it gets all the attention from all the local HS coaches/fans.
 
Murph said:
Mo didn't like recruiting local players, he always said there's too much pressure on him to play them and too much pressure on the kids to perform. Versace never recruited many local players either, the only one I remember off hand was Trevor Trimpe.

I don't care where they come from as long as they're good students and can play.
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Mo didn't want to take a chance on marginal D-1 players from the local area.
he recruited several very hard and they all went BCS...Vershaw,Koch,Grimm come to mind. I'm sure there were a few others.
 
TINMAN76 said:
I know a manual high school player who went to eastern illinois because coach mo said he didnt want to recruit local players because he didnt want to hear *****ing from local fans if things didnt work out. And dont think he wasnt good enough to play at bradley. He was good enough to play for the Peoria kings!

What local talent did he ever get?
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Not sure how he fit in Mo's plans from the juco route and EIU was the only school that offered from what I know. Plus he did so so at EIU
 
Lakeview Brave said:
It is absouletely wrong that JM refused to recruit local players, I know for a fact he tried hard to get the local talent.

Would you have prefered we lost to Kansas and POB stayed?
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The Kansas game wasn't the reason P.O.B. went to the N.B.A. It was the pitt game.

I just think Losing P.O.B. was totally unexpected, and JL had to completely rethink how he was going to recruit. We still haven't got to where he wants to be.

I think with the recruits he has coming in we have a good start.
 
BRADLEY FAN 49 said:
The Kansas game wasn't the reason P.O.B. went to the N.B.A. It was the pitt game.

I just think Losing P.O.B. was totally unexpected, and JL had to completely rethink how he was going to recruit. We still haven't got to where he wants to be.

I think with the recruits he has coming in we have a good start.
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It was not just the loss of Plan A POB, it was the earlier known losses of plans B (SS to another injury) and C (XC did not qualify)
 
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