Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, April 6, 1991 TAG: 9104060111
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: RAY COX SPORTSWRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
"It was definitely not a formal interview," Bradley, a Radford assistant, said. "We'd met around campus before, but this was as long as we've ever sat down and talked."
A variety of topics were covered - among them family, music and Radford's students - but very little was said about basketball, Bradley said.
"It was just a normal dialogue," he said. "It is my understanding that he likes to sit down with his faculty and staff from time to time and just talk."
This was the second time this week that Taylor and Bradley have met. However, it was the first time Bradley and Dedmon have been together since the news that former coach Oliver Purnell was taking over the basketball program at Old Dominion broke last week.
Dedmon was out of town on business last week.
Bradley, who joined Purnell's staff before the 1990-91 season after stints as an assistant coach and an administrator at Maryland, is considered the leading candidate for the Radford job.
Steve Robinson, a Kansas assistant coach and a former Radford player and coach, called Taylor to express an interest in the job but was told that he would not be a top candidate, sources familiar with the conversation reported.
Robinson was told that Bradley and an unidentified Division I head coach were the front-runners for the job. The only names of current Division I coaches that have surfaced are VMI's Joe Cantafio and Southwestern Louisiana's Marty Fletcher. Neither, however, said he had been contacted by Friday.
"I want the job and have been told I'm a viable candidate," Bradley said. "That's all I know."
No formal interviews have been scheduled and Bradley has not been told when there would be one, he said.
No action on the search is expected before April 10, when the position will first be advertised nationally, Taylor has said.
by CNB