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Fire Matt Painter Petition...

Did you write this for attention ? wow , just wow! Your talking about one of the most respected coaches in college basketball. There is always room for improvement and I'm sure CMP is tougher on himself than this post. Keady fell short at time but he loved Purdue as does Painter , I loved watching Gene. Obviously Painter hasn't met your " expectations " and I understand you posting your disappointment, but when it comes to family and CMP is family we don't get rid of them discard them , we encourage them and a rise and fall with them , but there's always a place at the table. CMP loves his players and that's good enough, ask Hummel, Ivey, Edey ... he's a father figure to them . So I'll start a post keep Painter.

Did you actually read and understand my post? I'm 110% behind CMP. DryFly88 said we would have a lean year if CMP didn't embrace NIL after the 2023 season. We all know what happened last season. I wrote it to point out that some people on this forum react so negatively when Purdue BB falls short.

I was actually looking for the posts 12 years ago (2013-14 season) when there were dozens of posters who wanted to fire CMP. I was against it then and against it now.
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Purdue targeting Barry Odom as next head coach

Did we hire him because of his extensive Defensive experience and connections from his tenure at Missouri? Fine. Did we hire him because of the success at UNLV? That only works if he brings Brennan Marion with him for multiple years, the way Tiller had Chaney…
Copy and paste works well on your computer it seems.

is it Odom?

Question is this, will players leave Vegas and head for Purdue to join the Coach? Purdue is going to need plenty of portal help, do we see an exodus like JMU had when Cig left for IU? UNLV has a nice team, some good players, would be nice to see guys in West Lafayette next season.
As with almost any new coaching hire, it's all unknown. Could fail, could be ok, could be great.

The odds improve if he gets competent staff, brings quite frankly a lot of players with him, and is given NIL help to buy talent in the portal. A slightly less brutal schedule won't hurt either.
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Why doesn't the University help support athletics financially?

Because the Indiana state legislature wisely passed a law many decades ago prohibiting state funded schools from using tuition or state provided monies for athletics. That's also why Purdue is considered a great school and Alabama that heavily subsidizes their sports teams is considered a very poor school for academics.
Iu gets around part of that by having their coaches as part of school staff, don't they? I seem to remember seeing/reading State of Indiana payroll lists that show the basketball coach (and now the football coach) as the highest paid state employees?

Colvin and Hiede

I understand your general point but I’ll channel Painter and say ‘those things may look the same to fans because there are some general similarities but in reality the situations were very different’.

I have some concerns about Braden from those three games. He has to find ways to be productive and play within himself when he sees heavy pressure intended to take him out of the game. I think he can do it but hasn’t yet. Fletch was passive against UConn vs sloppy with the ball and bad in his decision making against Penn State. Trey was probably the biggest problem vs PSU and that had nothing to do with guard pressure. He’s going to have to learn to take care of the ball when he’s getting fouled and not getting calls. He got screwed by the refs and wasn’t able to handle it.
It seems to me that one solution to these hard hedges is for Braden to dump the ball back to a diving Trey to lead a 4 on 3, half court fast break. You want to jump double Braden at the top? FIne, we'll take a man advantage to the hoop.
TKR has the passing skills to do it effectively. Can he make the right decisions and control the turnovers playing on the run? Will Matt put that pressure on him in the first place?
Bust that double with a couple of layups and an open 3 and they'll come out of that bs.
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Colvin and Hiede

Unfortunately we saw a continuing trend last night i.e. UConn, Marquette, PSU that big athletic teams especially guards are going to Jam Loyer, Braden forcing them into Turnovers etc. Purdue likes a half court game were they can have nice comfortable shots, everyone's watched the videos now what happens to them with in your face physical games and it's going to be there throughout the BIG season. They are going to have to play faster and move away from there current ring around the rosy style don't know if they including CMP are ready or willing to change, it may take a few more losses. Without the NPOY to fix it in the middle which he did a lot , their weakness is exposed. Buckle up gonna be a rough ride I'm afraid.
nobody rides coasters for the flat parts.

Trust your eyes

My eyes say PSU turns the ball over too much to be B10 elite.....and that's against Purdue who typically doesn't turn a team over
My eyes say that's the best pg I've seen this year. And 4 scrappy and athletic defenders around him with an elite rim protector. as for the turnovers, that's a team starting FIVE NEW GUYS. (new to the TEAM from other schools, not to starting).
If they meld on offense this is a scary team come March.
Top 3. Maybe #1.

Looks like it's a done deal...

Did we hire him because of his extensive Defensive experience and connections from his tenure at Missouri? Fine. Did we hire him because of the success at UNLV? That only works if he brings Brennan Marion with him for multiple years, the way Tiller had Chaney…
Larry Korpitz was the real mastermind of the offense but lost a battle with cancer before he got to coach here.
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