But I never thought Walters was great. Regardless of who the hire was I was going to be in their corner because it’s just not currently a desirable job. Once pay for play ramped up, Purdue was going to be hiring amongst a low low pool until revenue sharing kicked in.
I never thought about Walters the way wole thought about the mad hatter coming here instead of brohm.
Walters has coached like a guy who is on his way to being fired and I can’t figure out if Harrell was actually worse than Diaco and hazell, or just tied.
That still doesn’t mean that a safe hire who was highly likely to be better than Walters, just without the upside, wasn’t going to have big big problems due to brohm not recruiting his last 3 years.
If Walters is fired and the Toledo coach is hired for example… that coach will STILL have problems next year due to brohm. His high school senior class will basically be Devin Mockobee, max Klare and who else? So, pretend we hire a guy you three really like. Brohm will have made it harder on that guy too. Get it?
Back to the Walters failed because of Brohm point.
This shit is laughable with you.
THIS ISNT 1990, 2000 or even the 2010s.
Schools don’t keep kids for 4 years now. No matter the programs success or failure. Kids will leave. Good players. Bad players. Kids taking 500k. Kids taking $50. That’s the new reality. Talking about it being Brohms fault the roster isn’t stocked is moot. Have you looked at the top 10? Even they have had massive turnover!
What you fail to realize is that we have a staff that can’t get these kids even lined up correctly in a position to succeed. The fundamentals aren’t there either. They aren’t controlling the basics they need to to be successful.
Forget about NIL. Forget about recruiting. If you can’t put your kids in a position to win…none of that matters.
We’d get absolutely steamrolled tomorrow by 90% of the MAC. That’s not a talent issue. We are more talented than that and it’s not even close. We might be bottom P4 but we are not MAC level talented.
We are Pee we’d level on coaching. That’s it. Plain and simple. Until we fix that, the talent, NIL $, etc just simply does not matter.