CRW is a big boy and made his own decision to take the Purdue job... The administration handed him updated infrastructure, the fan base has supported him,and he seized his own momentum in securing higher ranked recruits both in H.S. and from the portal.
At the end of the day, the man has to show that he is a leader of men and competitively field a football team......
CRW's biggest failure IMO has been his failure in managing expectations. Has he done so because he is a poor evaluator of assistant coaches and players or did he assemble the best staf and players that he could attract to Purdue?
At his hiring, CRW stated that Purdue had handed him the keys to a Maserati. In season two,it is clear that the young and inexperienced coah has driven the program into the ditch....
Nobody should have been under any illusion as to how much of a ball-buster schedule CRW was saddled with, but I fail to see ANY semblance of a plan/scheme/ vision that is being developed by CRW during this debacle of a season that we can either hang our hat on, or effectively sell to recruits --:
There is no shame in losing to superior talent, but flat-out quitting and having no capacity to learn from mistakes, and effectively gameplan after bye weeks -- this is inexcusable.
1) offensively, Purdue is patently unable to hold blocks long enough for a decent vertical passing game we all envisioned at the beginning , and on the rare occasions we actually have time to throw, the WRs have hands of stone ... therefore we've had to improvise to sometimes using a more mobile QB to run some kind of RPO-type thing that seems to gain yards most often through sheer luck, rather than design
2) the defense is a flat-out disaster-- no one has a clue (or the courage) as to how to seal the edge on the line, our LB and DB tackling is cowardly, the DL is slow and totally unable to generate pressure, and no one in our "Vaunted" secondary has the first clue as to when and how to look for the ball against opposing WRs. -- Theniman's regression to mediocrity (if not flat-out irrelevance) is jaw-dropping...
If this was a team of raw freshman and inexperienced portal guys, at least some of these issues MIGHT be excusable, but that clearly isn't the case -- CRW and staff have failed miserably at developing a scheme/culture, at teaching anything resembling proper technique, and most alarmingly -- they've shown ZERO ability to motivate this team to play for each other and demonstrate a sense of pride.
Can anyone explain to this outsider exactly what CRW is trying to teach?
