combes said:

Should do the last five seasons. Why stop at four?

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Four Full seasons. But why stop at 5? Let’s look at 8!

Boiler Buck said:

Gotta hand it to the Illinois coach. He seems to be a master at bringing in the right players.....portal or recruiting. Then after getting them to IL, putting the pieces together and making very good teams out of his pieces. Yet to see a great team, maybe this one is it??

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That was a jaw-dropping beatdown last night-- a scary combination of Illini athleticism and execution, and what had to be the most clueless, inept defense ever by Oregon. Underwood is kind of a wierdo, but his results speak for themselves.

Of course, Oregon will have all that ineptitude worked out by the time Purdue shows up in Eugene later this month.

The Featherheads' psycho, myopic fans take manic depression to amazing levels, and their seething envy of Painter and Purdue makes reading their fan boards a delight!

Katscratch said:

Solid job of stating that:

1. IU Football is already toast going forward, and then
2. Contradicting yourself to explain away IU Football doing well next year.

All in one post! Finishing by loading up on the future excuses for IU Football winning 7-10 games next season? Nothing like planning ahead.

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I guess my saying IU playing a weakass schedule next year didn't adequately express my thoughts of how much disdain I have for IU's path to mediocrity? LOL

tjreese said:

He has been loaded with talent

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Part of being a great coach is bringing in Talent -- he does that well. But talent & coaching equals success. He has has that the last 4-5 years.

Love the coaches attitude about scoring in first 7 seconds, when available. And it was available alot last night vs Oregon. That puts alot of offensive pressure on an opponent.

DwaynePurvis00 said:

GF committed to Louisville so maybe he wants to go somewhere to play his last year? 🤷‍♂️

We can still get two portal guys if Berg and Waddell stay. Was just speculating.

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Waddell is dating Chicoine? Well done young man!

BB62 said:

About what the last few years? Just say it. What is it? Well of course he won't say it cause there's nothing to say. This is a sitting US senator taking political shots at the media, implying past info is being withheld, and playing the trump tough guy by threatening investigators if they don't come forward with an explanation of what happened. Throws a little red meat, preemptive conspiracy out for you to swallow. The attack isn't 24 hours old and he's railing about what he's gonna do if authorities don't tell us everything.......which could be months down the road.

He checked all the trump boxes. Made it about himself, attacked the media, and tossed a conspiracy or two for good measure. Right up your alley.

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John is aware of all the lies as well as the dropped interest in other events to the country in the recent past and suggested that as you said, things would be different. Why you are unaware of the lies in the recent past is beyond my wildest imagination. Most the country knows, but it is okay, there are some that haven't even recognized their mistake of voting for Biden or aware of the disaster he has caused and so not everybody is aware...and many will forget. If only the social media and the pretend journalists could remind people what they are to believe they might get everybody stupid.

DwaynePurvis00 said:

I think the team will remain together minus Waddell and Berg. Hope Paint gets some pieces in the portal.

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There's 2 guys on the team that have shown some real flashes but don't seem to have developed their game to improve their weaknesses. I'm sure they're going to sniff around the portal, especially if Painter sees those as a position of need.

rgarlitz said:

The dean of engineering made more than both Akers and Keady. Purdue had priorities.

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To be fair, anything over min wage was paying Akers too much.

DwaynePurvis00 said:

Yup, agreed!

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Should do the last five seasons. Why stop at four?

Smokestack91 said:

Purdue Salaries (1987) - found this from the Exponent in 1987 while I was looking for something else. A decent salary back then, but basketball coaches have come a long way since. To think that Gene made less than Fred Akers and significantly less than Steven Beering! I imagine that ratio for basketball coaches:college presidents has now flipped (and then some) for major conference schools. Also, love the ad to watch the Purdue-Louisville football game at Quincey's. That was my first football game as a student. We ended up tying the Howard Schnellenberger coached team.

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Forget salaries, did you see Wendy's had a salad bar and it was only $1.99?

BB62 said:

Piss off. You MAGA rubes constantly complain about how everybody else believes what they are told by the media. And yet here's a perfect example of how you guys do that very thing. An obviously fake video that Tj sees and believes and then races to start a thread about it.

Similar thing happened with the New Orleans attack. Fox News, the MAGA equivalent of the liberal media, said like 20 times the truck driven by the killer crossed over from Mexico. It didn't. Trump making posts trying to infer the killer was illegal. He wasn't. Mike Johnson and other Republican leaders doing the same thing. Kennedy trying to turn a press conference about a horrific murder into some kind of political event.

Trying to paint me in a negative way is how you avoid the truth and deflect from the facts. You're an old man that's reverting back to childlike behavior.

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just don't call him arrogant A$$...stop short when you start to go down that path. I deserve that title.

Hopefully the coaches and/or his inner circle see this and let him know. I think Kyle Guy is one of his summer basketball pals. Kyle knows a little something about shooting and may be able to advise Colvin.

Gman544 said:

Wins away even against bad teams can provide a window on progress or lack of progress. Furst was a help on the boards and on defense. His scoring was gravy. Heide and Colvin struggled shooting but the 9 rebounds,4 assists and 2 steals show they remained engaged and were an improvement. Shots will fall eventually.

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I think we found our Center starter for the rest of the year. Furst was good, great on boards, good on defense and provided some offense. Best starter we have had since the injury to Jacobsen.

The 5th starter, either a SF or 3rd guard is still up in the air. No one has played well enough to claim it, but I love watching Painter work through things and try different things. Next year when healthy and a year older this team will be ready for another deep run into the NCAA.

Wolegib said:

I guess they were not deserving of consideration for the cfp . Or you could say they were just as deserving as IU was.

I believe it’s time to cut IU some slack and give them their props. They had a good year. Were they on the same level as PSU and OSU? No. But they were just as good or bad as several of the other teams in the cfp.

The CFP should never have been expanded to 12 teams and conferences like the mountain whatever, pac 12 and acc should never have been given automatic seeds. The overall seeding was terrible!

As for IU, I believe they could have beat Boise at, Arizona st and smu.

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You don’t think Oregon and Georgia were deserving of the CFP?

The mountain west doesn’t get an automatic seed. It’s the top 5 conferences regardless, it’s been that way for the big six games for as long as I can remember. And when it was the P5 it was the top 6 conference champions.

Overall rankings was not Terrible. I think they got it right or at least close. Indiana was 8 and ahead of those 3 you mentioned… do you mean the fact they gave the conference champs byes? Yes that was questionable and no one is denying it. They made it clear with the status of conferences changing they would try it out this way and then evaluate it. You think two of the people on the large committee would get away with saying you other conferences don’t get byes? They needed it to play out so they can prove a point. I expect moving forward the brackets will be based on final rankings not conference champs. Then Texas and PSU would have gotten byes and indiana would have got to host Boise state.

Other changes I would like to see if they use quad wins like they do in basketball and just go with top 12 regardless of conference. Indiana still makes it but I suspect would have been passed up by Alabama (who would replace clemson) and SMU for the 10 seed and play tennessee in first round which I think would have been a good game.

Even in this scenario you would have had 5 conferences represented, but clemson wouldn’t have gotten in automatically and SMU would at least represent their conference.

Gman544 said:

Wins away even against bad teams can provide a window on progress or lack of progress. Furst was a help on the boards and on defense. His scoring was gravy. Heide and Colvin struggled shooting but the 9 rebounds,4 assists and 2 steals show they remained engaged and were an improvement. Shots will fall eventually.

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Caleb brought some fight that was needed...

Purdue Grad in Texas said:

They were pretty darn good last year, just no chance being in Connecticut's region, although they gave them a really good battle for the first 19 minutes, then the wheels fell off. Really good team in '22 as well, but I thought the best chances were with the Dosunmu team right before that in '21......until I picked them.

Underwood is maybe a little polarizing and might rub some the wrong way, but he is a really good coach, IMO. Think he has double-digit conference wins the last five years.....something like that.

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A newbie might find him fiery, but I think he just simmers now compared to when he started. One transfer he got as an all state honorable mention player from Tipton at 6'9" that was at Huntington and then Evansville that I don't recall seeing play in high school

Wins away even against bad teams can provide a window on progress or lack of progress. Furst was a help on the boards and on defense. His scoring was gravy. Heide and Colvin struggled shooting but the 9 rebounds,4 assists and 2 steals show they remained engaged and were an improvement. Shots will fall eventually.

Boiler Buck said:

Gotta hand it to the Illinois coach. He seems to be a master at bringing in the right players.....portal or recruiting. Then after getting them to IL, putting the pieces together and making very good teams out of his pieces. Yet to see a great team, maybe this one is it??

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He has been loaded with talent

Colvin is starting to remind me of Anthony Johnson a little bit in terms of his shooting issues. AJ was a fantastic high leveler shooter/scorer in high school up in Chicago and I believe a 4-star top 75 recruit for Painter but he was never able to translate his scoring to high major college competition. His shot, while beautiful, was too slow for the athletes he faced in college and the opponent could recover too easily. Colvin's shot is beautiful but as I watched his summer highlights and early season highlights, his stroke appears to have a lot of little moving part when dialed in which leads to a slower release.

I think he is feeling that in games now where people are recovering faster to him. His mechanics are messed up and have progressively gotten worse since the Ole Miss game. You can tell his misses before the ball leave his hands due to his legs and arms being so out of synch from what his tunned in stroke looks like.

I hope he is able to find his stroke again before the end of the season and uses the offseason the find something that can work and also develop handles to get to a pull up.

POTFHBTFU said:

They didn’t dominate them . I’m fact georgia outscored ND 10-3 for 39 of the 40 minutes as ND scored 17 of them in a 60 second segment of game time. Heck georgia had more offensive yards than ND by 50+. Georgia had a lot of unfortunate plays, fumble before half, dropped pass, dumb penalty on 4th down, even a walkon QB on street clothes getting in the way. And until the final drive Georgia had about 100 more offensive yards. How is that being dominated?

Meanwhile until garbage time ND had about 250 more yards than Indiana.

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Simplify it for them.

With a 1:30 to go in both games, what was the score.

Indy_Rider said:

And yet Georgia was in the game until almost the end with their backup QB.

Indiana was out of it at opening kickoff and scored two meaningless touchdowns against the backups to make it seem closer than it was.

So yes, the cartoon is correct and only people who don't understand sports don't get it.

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They were so far out of it they even punted in the 4th to avoid further embarrassing themselves. The game was over at that point and even the coach that wins knew it.

Boiler Buck said:

All road wins are good wins. But Braden makes any game winnable. An amazing player. B10 player of the week given the last 2 games imo.

Love that Furst got going and C & H found a way to help off the bench. MN, even at the Barn in my opinion is not a good team. They look like they might be the cellar dweller of the B10 this year.

Loyer was so fun to watch last night. He was just having fun and is just a crazy good shooter. But that last shot was nuts.

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True that any road win is good, but this was a first for Purdue this year on the opponents home court. I think that lack of confidence was a bit apparent last night early. I thought after the Toledo game that Caleb needed more minutes as he has the potential "this year" to help this team get better and thought Caleb did well. As I said above, this was a good answer to the physical play...something the minny asst coach was demanding of is players for Purdue to answer the physical play. Only thing missing was the physical play with more pressure. This was a pressure game and the pressure was on Purdue to win and it didn't start well for Purdue and yet they kept grinding until others could help Fletcher and the foul situation was not as concerning and so as a team I think more players felt they contributed which was good for the morale. True that Minny day in and day out is not one of the better teams in the Big this year, but on a given night anything can happen and was starting to happen until Purdue circled the wagons and was not to be denied. Next is Northwestern and hopefully Caleb takes another step and Myles finds that two dribble into the lane when hard closeouts happen...

Bank Shot Podcast said:

It was 20-10. It was also 20-3. Notre Dame still dominated Georgia and it happened in the same way they did Indiana. By controlling the line of scrimmage. Georgias offensive line was overpowered just like Indiana's. It has actually been theme in games all playoff. Penn State vs SMU and Boise State. Ohio State vs Tennessee and Oregon. That's been the difference in all of those games. Shows the importance of a great offensive line.

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They didn’t dominate them . I’m fact georgia outscored ND 10-3 for 39 of the 40 minutes as ND scored 17 of them in a 60 second segment of game time. Heck georgia had more offensive yards than ND by 50+. Georgia had a lot of unfortunate plays, fumble before half, dropped pass, dumb penalty on 4th down, even a walkon QB on street clothes getting in the way. And until the final drive Georgia had about 100 more offensive yards. How is that being dominated?

Meanwhile until garbage time ND had about 250 more yards than Indiana.

But don’t let facts get in the way.

Smokestack91 said:

Purdue Salaries (1987) - found this from the Exponent in 1987 while I was looking for something else. A decent salary back then, but basketball coaches have come a long way since. To think that Gene made less than Fred Akers and significantly less than Steven Beering! I imagine that ratio for basketball coaches:college presidents has now flipped (and then some) for major conference schools. Also, love the ad to watch the Purdue-Louisville football game at Quincey's. That was my first football game as a student. We ended up tying the Howard Schnellenberger coached team.

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I think that's what they made from the state. Athletic dept was self funded at Purdue. If you look now it probably says CMP makes 250k or something.

Bank Shot Podcast said:

It's gotta be Smith. That's the motor that makes it all run.

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Agreed, we saw in the second half last night how much difference an "aggressive Braden Smith" makes. 1 of 7 at the half and 6 of 10 in the second half. 20 points, 6 rebounds, 10 assists. 17 points in 2nd half .