Fresno Bee on Steve Cleveland as resurrector

We really think the headline writer here should have gone with a dog metaphor rather than a boating one. After all, the article is about the Bulldogs and the opening line begs for it.

Cleveland raised a shipwreck
Matt James
Fresno Bee
May 12, 2009

You won't want to hear this, but the men's basketball team is fixed.

Today is the last day of class at Fresno State for this school year, and history is happening. In 10 days, three more Bulldogs will graduate, Tyson Parker, Alex Blair and Dwight O'Neil.

That will make 10 men's basketball players who've graduated in the past 12 months. A year ago, Eddie Miller, A.J. Riding, Hector Hernandez, Renato Cesar and Shawn Taylor all graduated, as did Mustafa Al-Sayyad, who hadn't been in the program since 2005, but finished his last couple of classes. Kevin Bell finished his final class this winter.

Steve Cleveland has overcome many obstacles in his attempt to fix the Fresno State men's basketball team.

The current coaching staff is pretty sure the program has never had 10 players graduate in a 12-month period in the past quarter-century. Maybe longer. They're understandably satisfied with the accomplishment, proud of their tasseled tall guys, especially Miller and Hernandez and Bell, who could have forgotten school while playing overseas...

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