tjreese said:

Said a lot of things and not sure of a particular you hope I'm right, but if I'm not, we still have the team we have. My biggest concern as always is stopping dribble (first) and pass (second) penetration into the lane. Getting better at that will help the defensive rebounding and ultimately lower the opposition FG% I believe...and lower their FT attempts. Most everyone knew the most potent offensive team and it appears that will be more in play. That said, rotations will be developed. Together, Cox and Harris should be able to handle the ball when Braden is out, but no doubt the offense will stagnate some without Braden. Course "if" a team is pressing hard there should be less of a need to run an offense enabling Harris and Cox to be more effective "IF" they don't turn it over. If the opposition is not pressing hard full or 3/4 quart, then the potential issues remain. Half court pressure can still be a problem though. Still, Matt does not want the other team to make a run due to not having enough offense on the court and so the current five creates more questions about who is coming off the bench and when. I don't believe Matt wants the current five playing so many minutes as an attempt to reduce the sub times as he expects movement on O and D and fresher bodies.

The single best thing or pleasant surprise from the last game and a small amount against Marquette is Myles attacking the basket. IMO, that is HUGE! It will add a player to the list capable of getting inside the lane on his own, making it harder for Myles to be defended rather than the spot shooter he was last year. Kudos to him for his improvement!

I'm of the belief that turnovers are the result of your team on offense rather than the defense of the other team. Naturally, the opposition has a say on that and tries to make it difficult. Purdue still has choices and one is to NOT throw it to a teammate that has another defending him in passing lane...which Purdue did. The other correctable thing is to develop better timing in coming off screens as well as setting up or sealing the defender in a way that puts him a step behind you preventing him from blowing up the screen. Unfortunately the handoffs at the top of the key resulting from a hard, high hedge while not being as worried about a quick slip/roll from the 5 pushes Braden out farther due to him going as fast as he does fearful of getting an offensive foul into the D 5 man. If the screener becomes more and more a threat, they can't double and/or blow up that screen. Should or could we see more wings ball screening? Ultimately, I want to believe this team will improve and defensive pressure effectiveness will diminish.

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Riveting said:

Bob, I was referring to the bumbling and screwups of the Biden admin. Iran appeasement, open borders, Afg withdrawal debacle, etc.

If you want to look at the past 80 years, consider the senseless and deadly Vietnam war, the Iraq invasion, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 that completely surprised our intelligence agencies - as did the 9/11 attacks. I could add to this list, but those are the worst.

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BB62 said:

Lol. If simply bombing the locals would get them to stop we could have won in Afghanistan.

How do you resupply the base? Just fly in a C-17 over Taliban territory where anybody with a MANPADS can shoot it down? You want to send armed convoys through enemy territory to bring in supplies? Trying to keep an airbase operational while it's completely surrounded is completely illogical and shows a fundamental lack of understanding of military tactics and operations. Now deflect to something else to hide the fact you don't know wtf you're talking about.

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Do Dah Day said:

I screamed a few times: "Don't release so soon!" The hedging did work well and there could have been some fouls for a moving screen, but still. -- Do you think there could have been successful reverse screens following the 1st one?

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Wolegib said:

BoBo has done an awesome job with the other sports at Purdue.

I still believe the sole reason that Walters has not been fired is because none of YOU that have complained about him have ponied up the $10 million to replace him.

You want a new coach. To get a new coach, you will need to find the money for Walters buyout and the new coach Will want more money than Walters if you expect him to bring Purdue back to mediocrity.

WHICH one of YOU that wants Walters fired is willing to put your money where your mouth is? I can hear crickets chirping.

On a plus side, Walters has faced 4 schools ranked in the top 5 this year and faced a top 25 Illinois and a top 10 IU. Would any coach have been able to win those games? The sad part is the schedule isn’t going to get any easier going forward as we look to having teams like USC and Washington on our schedule. The BIG10 didn’t do Purdue any favors with their last 4 additions.

I truly believe Purdue just doesn’t have the money to buy out Walters. They earmarked too much of that revenue for facility upgrades. Purdue is asking alumni to pony up for the NIL and now asking for more money to replace the coach? Sorry. There is just so much money alumni are willing to give.

You keep talking about the new Big10 network revenue. But you have no idea how much of that money has already been earmarked for other expenditures. You moan and complain Purdue gives out so little NIL money. Is it possible that’s because Purdue just doesn’t have the money to give?

Who here gives Purdue $1 million a year? That is the person who has a right to complain. If you don’t give, then accept the product you are given

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BBG said:

You know that is a good point. Regardless of what happens, there is a host of new assistants coming in.. that you're paying for anyway.. why not do all of that under a new coach?

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boilernuke said:

Painter has made it to the championship game, something Shaka has never done, and frankly don't really ever see Shaka doing it. His tourney wins are very few.

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BB62 said:

Yeah, all their bumbling and screwups have led to no global wars or nuclear exchanges in the nearly 80 years since WW2. So sorry that the world isn't running as smoothly as you think it should be.

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Thordog said:

he offered to resign mid season, the school said no. He also gets more money from the university if they terminate the contract.

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North Carolina fires Mack Brown a day after he said he planned to be back in 2025

Brown is in his second stint as UNC's head coach.

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JRKinn said:

To the posters talking negatively about tourney success of Painter, you are being irrational. I would challenge you to name 10 coaches with more tourney success over the last 7 tournaments than Painter has had. Stop the strawman of pointing to seed numbers, since there are crazy upsets every single year, and look at actual tourney results.

During the above time frame Painter has taken the team to the tourney every year, made the second weekend a shocking 70% of the time, had 2 deeper runs including a runner up. When you are a top 10 team consistently you are prone for some upsets in the tourney, otherwise every year we would have 4 1 seeds in the FF.

There is 1 coach with more consistency than Painter and that is Few, there are a handful more that won their chip game and are a little less consistent who you could argue are ahead of Painter. The list is pretty slim since 4 of the 7 champ games were won by 2 coaches one of which is now retired and another champ winner that was arguable the biggest tourney choker in the league who won it all and retired.

All that said who exactly are these amazing coaches that are amazing tourney coaches? I can see Few, Self, Hurley (not consistent but 2 chips is 2 chips) seem likely a step up. Then you have a bunch of maybe about the same with Herbert, Drew, Oats, Sampson?

You are Purdue fans which leads me to believe you graduated from there. Almost every PU grad I have met has a very logically brain, and seeing some of the emotional hot takes about things that defy reality just don't seem to fit the mold that I have seen from Purdue grads......

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BB62 said:

What's your point? You want to play word games?

A nuclear war implies both sides using nukes. That didn't happen.

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iubhounds said:

yes but memories you would love to hear ... RMK lost to Cleveland State, Richmond, Pepperdine in the first round of the NCAAs.

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qazplm said:

It's money. We've almost never spent money on football like other power schools have.

The one time we did was Brohms extension and the lesson they appeared to have learned was that was meaningless because he just left anyways so they went budget with their next hire.

For all the DEI aholes, there are plenty of black coaches who have head coaching experience, they could have went and gotten one of them. Walters being Black has zero to do with it. Walters being cheap to get did.

Fire or retain Walters, if you aren't going to invest in personnel (coaches and players) then it doesn't matter either way. In the NIL age you get the product you pay for.

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qazplm said:

It's money. We've almost never spent money on football like other power schools have.

The one time we did was Brohms extension and the lesson they appeared to have learned was that was meaningless because he just left anyways so they went budget with their next hire.

For all the DEI aholes, there are plenty of black coaches who have head coaching experience, they could have went and gotten one of them. Walters being Black has zero to do with it. Walters being cheap to get did.

Fire or retain Walters, if you aren't going to invest in personnel (coaches and players) then it doesn't matter either way. In the NIL age you get the product you pay for.

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qazplm said:

It's money. We've almost never spent money on football like other power schools have.

The one time we did was Brohms extension and the lesson they appeared to have learned was that was meaningless because he just left anyways so they went budget with their next hire.

For all the DEI aholes, there are plenty of black coaches who have head coaching experience, they could have went and gotten one of them. Walters being Black has zero to do with it. Walters being cheap to get did.

Fire or retain Walters, if you aren't going to invest in personnel (coaches and players) then it doesn't matter either way. In the NIL age you get the product you pay for.

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tjreese said:

The other correctable thing is to develop better timing in coming off screens as well as setting up or sealing the defender in a way that puts him a step behind you preventing him from blowing up the screen. Unfortunately the handoffs at the top of the key resulting from a hard, high hedge while not being as worried about a quick slip/roll from the 5 pushes Braden out farther due to him going as fast as he does fearful of getting an offensive foul into the D 5 man. If the screener becomes more and more a threat, they can't double and/or blow up that screen. Should or could we see more wings ball screening? Ultimately, I want to believe this team will improve and defensive pressure effectiveness will diminish.

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DwaynePurvis00 said:

I think I don’t understand where Heide would get more than 10-15 mins at the 3 next year?

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BoilerNGold013 said:

Being half glass full for the DJ injury, hopefully now Berg and RB are able to take a leap for next year due to more playing time and then DJ comes back to at least where he was to start this year for next season. That way the 5 spot will be much more competent than this years group after the DJ injury.

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BNIBoiler said:

Dude have you seen pictures of MLB player Sammy Sosa from my Chicago Cubs lately? Since retirement, Sammy Sosa had chemically lightened his skin color. He’s from the Dominican Republic. As with a lot of Latin American countries, colorism is bad there. The lighter the skin color, the more privilege you have. This is no different here in the US. Lighter skin blacks have enjoyed better privileges than their darker skin counterparts. Same with lighter skinned Latinos/Hispanics.

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ImRonBurgandy? said:

Said it in another thread, maybe we're the Cubs of college football. Go to the game to party. I haven't been to game in a long time, but something is drawing the crowd and it's not the Purdue product on the field.

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msfboiler3 said:

Walters isnt up to the task. Your question is a great one...why is he here right now when he should have been let go during the bye. Its even more eggregious if tom is correct and he gets another year if the powers that be use wins and losses as their main kpi. If its not wins and losses is it money, pride, or something else? I really dont know and i doubt a straight answer is ever given but they are setting the program back by years by this decision. We have to build the team with solid recruiting. We dont have the cash or desire to invest to make a huge splash in the nil world. We are hemorraging recruits left and right and nobody will tske walters serious on the recruiting front going forward. To your point.....why? Whats more important than having a competitive football program from an athletic department viewpoint.

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