TC4THREE said:

According to ESPN....

Texas 38th
Alabama 16th
OSU 28th
PSU 35th
BYU 53rd
IU 103rd

So let's quit pretending that IU's schedule has been close to any of the others. We will see what happens to this metric with the OSU game. Would also be interesting what it would look like if they hadn't bought out the Louisville game they probably had on the schedule.

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GB.com said:

IU had a road game against Louisville on their schedule for this year and they bailed. That's soft. If they would have played that game and won this weekends game, Saturday is meaningless for them as far as the playoff is concerned. 75% of their schedule is not their fault. 25% is. This is on them. I have not heard that mentioned by any college football pundits and they haven't done their homework. In hindsight they should have kept the Louisville gaem

I firmly believe they go to Columbus and give Ohio State everything they can handle. I would be more shocked at a blow out by OSU than a IU win.

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Boiler79 said:

Yep, and it's frustrating that 2 of our most athletic perimeter players ( Colvin / Heide ) aren't capable of taking a game over for us in that spot. I can understand Cox and Harris struggling, but Colvin is a headscratcher to me. Is he basically just a 3 point shooter who can throw down electrifying dunks when he has an open path to the rim?

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boilerzz said:

After going on that magical Final Four run, Shaka coached teams went 12 straight years (including 6 with Texas and 2 with Marquette) never reaching the second weekend. That finally ended last year with wins over 2 double digit seeds.

Prior to those two wins last year, Shaka had 1 NCAA tournament win in 8 seasons as a P5 head coach. In 9 years as a P5 head coach, his only NCAA wins are over two 15 seed and a 10 seed.

For someone so focused on the NCAA tournament, you sure seem to not be doing your homework here.

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bonefish1 said:

Do Pell grants fall under the jurisdiction of the DoE?
What exactly is the mission of the DoE and what examples can be provided to demonstrate success?

Here's an example, albeit at the state level: Chicago public schools is near the top of the list in per-student spending, yet they have terrible graduation rates and reading/math scores. That's a failure of the system.

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Ryan Walters says more than 500 Bibles purchased for Oklahoma public schools

The Oklahoma State Department of Education, which Walters oversees, still plans to buy thousands more Bibles.

www.oklahoman.com

bonefish1 said:

I think this was a shrewd political move by DJT.

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KentuckyBoiler said:

Yeah, that is how our team is playing and playing next year too, if Walters is kept.

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bonefish1 said:

Until last year, Painter was considered one of the worst tourney coaches. I believe he's the only coach to lose to a 16, 15, 14 and 12 seeds. In addition, he had only one time beaten a higher seed that wasn't an 8/9 games.

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TC4THREE said:

Just like you see nothing about IU beating a good team. But they can change that narrative this weekend.

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pubill said:

PJ Thompson will be next Purdue coach.

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Thordog said:

They've come a long way from

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BNIBoiler said:

Dude you know what I'm talking about. That's a direct quote from Chump when talking about selecting folks in his administration.

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JRKinn said:

This is just dumb. Purdue under Painter has been to the S16 or better in 5 of the last 7 tourneys. There is only one other team that has had better consistency during that same period, Gonzaga. Add on top of that a Champ runner up and an elite 8 and you have a top 6-7 tourney performance in all of College bball.

Also that 4 year tourney run that you are talking about included a canceled tourney, and a S16. IF you didn't completely cherry pick your data to fit your narrative the book ends to that 4 year (with only 3 tourneys) was an E8 and a Finals appearance........

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SKYDOG said:

He wasn’t hired.

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Purdue Grad in Texas said:

Just an update for folks who may be interested. Zach Edey has been out the last couple of games with an ankle sprain from a game last week with Denver.

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Predictably, Mr. Green is trying to parlay it.....what a maroon.....

From an excerpt via si.com:

"Edey has not played for the Grizzlies since November 17 against the Denver Nuggets, where he put up 7 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, and 2 blocks in only 14 minutes. It would have been fascinating to see how he handles a center like Embiid, but the matchup will unfortunately have to wait.

This week, Edey was caught catching strays from Draymond Green calling him soft. Green specifically cited that Embiid would play extra physical against Edey.

"He's big enough to possibly have fooled people that he could be a little tough, and now nobody believe you," Green said. "Now Joel Embiid gonna like try to put his chest into the stanchion just to see... Ya'll gotta stop breeding these soft dudes man. Stop making these guys turn out to be snitches and soft and going to tell, because you are a big man!"

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BNIBoiler said:

Didn't Chump say that he hires the best people?

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typeviic said:

That is very hard to answer, since Purdue is arguably the only Power-5 basketball program (IMO) that refuses to go full-bore NIL (so far).
There are 3 scenarios...
1. Continue to do it the old-fashioned way with recruiting, because so far it has worked. This is where CMP is at and does not figure he needs to go NIL, over a recruited kid(s).
2. Join the NIL way of doing things because the recruiting method is no longer working, and conference foes are surging ahead of you.
3. See the NIL writing on the wall and retire from coaching because of it (Jay Wright). Which, BTW, would require Purdue to go ahead with a national coaching search and hire a proven coach and not a "lets hire this assistant and see what happens".

*All of the above assumes that the NCAA does not develop and enforce a NIL salary cap, so team A with alumni/boosters cant outspend team B that has alumni, but not as many boosters.

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northside100 said:

Physical, athletic opponent that pressures the ball and takes away post ups. Exactly the type of opponent that has given Purdue trouble.

Braden was out of his mind the first half (in the worst way), too many turnovers across the board, couldn’t keep them out of the paint, living in help on defense. This Purdue team needs to get much better and they will. Good for them to lose this game.

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Boiler Buck said:

Police....NO. Document or admit you are making crap up.

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goboilers2 said:

I will. (Because, yes, I am a little envious of their football hire)

Interesting point made yesterday about the IU v OSU game. The point was that if OSU wins, IU should NOT be awarded a playoff slot.

The reasoning is the strength of schedule. The IU preseason is the weakest of the ranked teams. The second point that caught my eye is that IU has not played any Big Ten team in the upper half of the conference, although Washington cracked that ceiling at 4-3/6-5. Normally Michigan would be there, but not this year.

At this point Washington is their only foe with a winning record.

Are they better than Purdue? Absolutely, but that is not my point. We might have 4 wins with their schedule.

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TC4THREE said:

FWIW I'm not sure ND is any more worthy of a spot than IU. Probably less so. They haven't beaten anyone and have the NIU loss. I think if they drop one of their last two they will not get in which is what I'm hoping for.

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TC4THREE said:

Probably not. But Penn State did play power conference opposition in the non conference . Texas too.

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bonefish1 said:

I feel like that horse has been beaten to death. Painter had a historically bad 4 year tourney run until last year. Shaka, while not having an impressive tourney resume either, has the same number of FFs.

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