I've seen this a lot. I think it's just incorrect. First, there's the whole dynamic of the fact that we're talking about hiring two coordinators, instead of a head coach also, which is miraculous.. until you remember that you're in the dysfunctional environment of Purdue athletics. So, with coordinators, you have two dynamics working in opposite directions:
a) The likelihood that Hazell will be fired, meaning that the new hire may be taking a one year job
b) The likelihood that Burke, if this $2 chump with a nice corporate schtick has anything left in the tank, can double back with "yes, but that just means that this job could be YOURS in a year"
Overriding that is the reduction in who your able to get due to the fact that good coordinators may be sitting there waiting on nothing less than a head job.
But let's say we're talking head coach in a year when it comes to the MAC theory...
Woody Hayes came from the MAC. Yes, that's a long time ago, but can't we all agree that Indiana would have been farther in two more years WITH Terry Hoeppner than they've come in the time without him? Urban Meyer came from the MAC. Bo Schembechler. Gary Pinkel has done a fine job for Missouri, a job I'd love done here at Purdue minus the disgusting sexual abuse (ALLEGEDLY).. he's from the MAC.
I don't think Hazell being a chump has anything to do with him being from the MAC. I actually think Hazell might have done a John Cooper-esque job had he landed at Ohio State. He's not aggressive. He has no balls. And frankly, this idea that "well, at least he'll supplement the lack of any courage with a team that plays smart" would make me laugh hysterically if I wasn't already in tears.
A coach like Darrell Hazell needs to be at a place where he can afford to sit back and let the game come to him.. where he can afford to play not to lose and wish the game had already ended instead of trying to end the game. He needs to be somewhere where scumbag alumni drop off $80,000 backpacks to elite athletes.
Joe Tiller came from a conference very similar in power to the MAC. He, on the other hand, understood how you have to play at a place like Purdue. I liken it to the American Revolution. Hazell would be fine for the British. Tiller was good for an entity whose lack of power dictates that it must shoot from the trees and engage in guerilla warfare.
That's why I'm rolling on the floor over this idea that people want Mark Richt or Bo Pelini. Is Mark Richt bringing his slick group of Georgia alumni to recruit like they did in the movie Blue Chips? Bo Pelini's effectiveness at Nebraska was several notches below Frank Solich.
Mark Richt had a team that athletically was several notches above Purdue in 2003.. didn't that game go into overtime?
If Boise State hired coaches the way that some here want to, they might still be in junior college.
Wanting Mark Richt or Bo Pelini to me sounds like the kind of false thinking when Bulls fans got excited about Ben Wallace. It was painfully obvious that the Bulls were paying Wallace for his past, not for his future. We'd be paying these two for their past.
This idea that they'd recruit here? Maybe somewhat better. I don't think that Hope or Hazell have knocked anyone's socks off recruiting even by Purdue's standards. But he's not bringing in the kind of athletes that come with jobs for mom and dad, free cars for the whole family and $80,000 backpacks.
I'll tell you when this was cemented to me. Remember Charlie Weis' hire? The rate at which top kids were suddenly going to Notre Dame did not seem to be in line with any hire. Their recruiting did such a 180 that I knew that the movie Blue Chips probably wasn't far off.
I don't care where our next coach comes from.. so long as he's been effective and his approach is to try to go for the throat.. which you must do at Purdue ALWAYS.
I don't think that that type of guy is going to come from a program bigger than ours with past success at that program.
Oh, forgot the next part.. they're not coming here anyway. This job probably sounds like a death sentence to someone like Mark Richt... who was interviewing for the MIAMI job yesterday.
a) The likelihood that Hazell will be fired, meaning that the new hire may be taking a one year job
b) The likelihood that Burke, if this $2 chump with a nice corporate schtick has anything left in the tank, can double back with "yes, but that just means that this job could be YOURS in a year"
Overriding that is the reduction in who your able to get due to the fact that good coordinators may be sitting there waiting on nothing less than a head job.
But let's say we're talking head coach in a year when it comes to the MAC theory...
Woody Hayes came from the MAC. Yes, that's a long time ago, but can't we all agree that Indiana would have been farther in two more years WITH Terry Hoeppner than they've come in the time without him? Urban Meyer came from the MAC. Bo Schembechler. Gary Pinkel has done a fine job for Missouri, a job I'd love done here at Purdue minus the disgusting sexual abuse (ALLEGEDLY).. he's from the MAC.
I don't think Hazell being a chump has anything to do with him being from the MAC. I actually think Hazell might have done a John Cooper-esque job had he landed at Ohio State. He's not aggressive. He has no balls. And frankly, this idea that "well, at least he'll supplement the lack of any courage with a team that plays smart" would make me laugh hysterically if I wasn't already in tears.
A coach like Darrell Hazell needs to be at a place where he can afford to sit back and let the game come to him.. where he can afford to play not to lose and wish the game had already ended instead of trying to end the game. He needs to be somewhere where scumbag alumni drop off $80,000 backpacks to elite athletes.
Joe Tiller came from a conference very similar in power to the MAC. He, on the other hand, understood how you have to play at a place like Purdue. I liken it to the American Revolution. Hazell would be fine for the British. Tiller was good for an entity whose lack of power dictates that it must shoot from the trees and engage in guerilla warfare.
That's why I'm rolling on the floor over this idea that people want Mark Richt or Bo Pelini. Is Mark Richt bringing his slick group of Georgia alumni to recruit like they did in the movie Blue Chips? Bo Pelini's effectiveness at Nebraska was several notches below Frank Solich.
Mark Richt had a team that athletically was several notches above Purdue in 2003.. didn't that game go into overtime?
If Boise State hired coaches the way that some here want to, they might still be in junior college.
Wanting Mark Richt or Bo Pelini to me sounds like the kind of false thinking when Bulls fans got excited about Ben Wallace. It was painfully obvious that the Bulls were paying Wallace for his past, not for his future. We'd be paying these two for their past.
This idea that they'd recruit here? Maybe somewhat better. I don't think that Hope or Hazell have knocked anyone's socks off recruiting even by Purdue's standards. But he's not bringing in the kind of athletes that come with jobs for mom and dad, free cars for the whole family and $80,000 backpacks.
I'll tell you when this was cemented to me. Remember Charlie Weis' hire? The rate at which top kids were suddenly going to Notre Dame did not seem to be in line with any hire. Their recruiting did such a 180 that I knew that the movie Blue Chips probably wasn't far off.
I don't care where our next coach comes from.. so long as he's been effective and his approach is to try to go for the throat.. which you must do at Purdue ALWAYS.
I don't think that that type of guy is going to come from a program bigger than ours with past success at that program.
Oh, forgot the next part.. they're not coming here anyway. This job probably sounds like a death sentence to someone like Mark Richt... who was interviewing for the MIAMI job yesterday.
