Bradley Train Wreck

[DUShock]

I'd go after Jim Les.

[Cdizzle]

I'd become a WSU fan.

[bufan42]

I'd go after Jim Les.

Won't happen. After Les takes UC Davis to the NCAA tournament and wins a game or two he will be getting a job far better than the Bradley job

[PantherSigEp]

I'd go after Jim Les.

Won't happen. After Les takes UC Davis to the NCAA tournament and wins a game or two he will be getting a job far better than the Bradley job

If he's making the tournament then I'd argue he already has a better job than the Bradley one

[squirrel]

Hard to argue against that. Davis also has a master's in brewing program, and it is also the #1 Cool School. FWIW.

[Valleyball]

Not sure if anyone is serious. But I am not buying the Jim Les is a good coach story. I am sooo glad he is gone. But yes Geno did worse.

[tribecalledquest]

Jim Les has an under .500 record at Davis. Two god awful seasons, one average one, and this season. Thanks quite a bit to Hersey Hawkins' son who is by far the best player in the Big West.

Good for Jim Les but he is coaching at the appropriate level for him right now.

The name to watch out for at Bradley is Brian Wardle from Green Bay.

[bufan42]

It takes time to rebuild bad or non existing programs.

Year 4 in a coach is the year you need to see significant improvement. Les is accomplishing that and then some at UCD. Doing an excellent job. The W/L record in a rebuild is irrelevant its all about year 4.


Brian Wardle without question should be the next BU head coach. Hopefully he brings his associate head coach with him.

[rlh04d]

It takes time to rebuild bad or non existing programs.

Year 4 in a coach is the year you need to see significant improvement. Les is accomplishing that and then some at UCD. Doing an excellent job. The W/L record in a rebuild is irrelevant its all about year 4.


Brian Wardle without question should be the next BU head coach. Hopefully he brings his associate head coach with him.

Agreed. I don't care how a coach does in seasons 1-3. By year three the players actually recruited by a coach are true sophomores (as a coach almost never gets a chance to recruit for year one). Performance in years 1-3 are strictly about the talent left by the previous coach and the in-game management of the coach. Performance in years 4+ are an accurate judge of a coach as the builder of a program.

So many teams get screwed by overvaluing those first few years of performance.

Marshall had a 53% record his first three years at WSU, and that's with a 25 win season in year 3 with some JUCO help. He has a 84%+ record in the five years after that. First few years are meaningless.

[ilstubirds250]

It takes time to rebuild bad or non existing programs.

Year 4 in a coach is the year you need to see significant improvement. Les is accomplishing that and then some at UCD. Doing an excellent job. The W/L record in a rebuild is irrelevant its all about year 4.


Brian Wardle without question should be the next BU head coach. Hopefully he brings his associate head coach with him.

Agreed. I don't care how a coach does in seasons 1-3. By year three the players actually recruited by a coach are true sophomores (as a coach almost never gets a chance to recruit for year one). Performance in years 1-3 are strictly about the talent left by the previous coach and the in-game management of the coach. Performance in years 4+ are an accurate judge of a coach as the builder of a program.

So many teams get screwed by overvaluing those first few years of performance.

Marshall had a 53% record his first three years at WSU, and that's with a 25 win season in year 3 with some JUCO help. He has a 84%+ record in the five years after that. First few years are meaningless.

Yes. This applies to everybody but Dan Muller because we all hate ISU!