It's ironic that Rasheed Wallace of all people has the most common sense of anyone who's weighed in on Zach Edey in the draft.

“I’m running my whole thing through Edey dawg, number one. Lets just say hypothetically the Wizards, and he goes there, I’m building around him dawg,” Wallace said. “Wherever he goes is going to be a bad team, just like they’re doing with Wembanyama in San Antonio. San Antonio is f—n terrible but what happened? They drafted Wembanyama and he’s doing his thing but he’s still taking his pops on the chin though. It’s going to be the same thing with Edey.”

"But Edey I think should be number one pick, if any GM’s got sense, that’s the number one pick for sure.”

I see many programs rushing out to obtain a big man to help center their offense and defense. IU just hired Ballo (I mean offered him a great education to come to their school). But several other programs are looking to beef up at the 5. Zach not only paved the way for bigs across the sport, he continues to influence the game as he departs.

Hoping Purdue reloads and comes out shooting in the fall!!

Attached is an article (Op-Ed) on the financials of the Big 10 Basketball. The writer has a pro-Illinois stance and I think the financials he is referring are from last year's season. I don't think that this season that was just completed has been compiled yet. Still, there are some interesting findings in the article. It seems that Purdue is not leading in things like revenue, ticket sales, net revenue but rather in the top 5-6 or so. Schools, like Illinois, Michigan State, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio State, seemed to have better metrics than Purdue.

I think this article is rather a 30,000-foot review of the financials and not getting into details. For example, what schools have the highest priced tickets (individual games or season) and exactly what sources can contribute to revenue generated and does that vary from school to school. Likewise, the budgets can greatly vary between schools as well.

What are your thoughts on this and do you have extra information that is not included in this op-ed?



https://www.news-gazette.com/opinio...cle_34bb991b-a168-5f65-9806-bafc75a800a9.html

Next season could be his breakout year.

Wanted to drop some women’s basketball recruiting nuggets in here as things are heating up for Katie Gearlds and company.

- Purdue already landed Destini Lombard on Monday, who was the WAC DPOY at Stephen F. Austin. Averaged 10.1 points, 4.2 rebounds and four assists per game last season.

- Mahri Petree, the younger sister of Lasha Petree, also took an official over the weekend. I like where Purdue stands with her as well.

- Two more portal players are expected to visit over the next week or so.

The first being Akron forward and two-time All-MAC performer Reagan Bass. She will be on campus tonight for an overnight visit. She is coming off averaging 16 points and 9.9 rebounds per game. Would be an instant starter at the five.

Ohio State guard Rikki Harris will also be visiting at some point next week. Harris is an Indianapolis native that was a five-star recruit out of high school. She has served in somewhat of a Draymond Green-type role for the Buckeyes.

It looks like it will be a one night affair as Purdue will play Northwestern at Wrigley next week.

Not sure what he is thinking. Playing for John Smith might have helped him. Have no idea where he is off to now.

The spring transfer window opened today and Purdue could look to add to these five position groups out of the portal.

Gicarri Harris and Kanon Catchings move up the latest Rivals 150 board while Raleigh Burgess finds himself falling over twenty spots.

Here's this week's stories:


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today, one can only imagine what will happen

A key piece of Purdue's non-conference schedule is set per Jon Rothstein.

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This would only surprise those here that are in denial of reality.

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Even par after two rounds at the Masters….

Fantastic showing for his first time competing at Augusta National …..

Boiler Up and keep it up!! 😎👍

I think it's hard to argue against that. And, I'm grateful that CMP offered him, he accepted, and then set about working his butt off to become a 2-time NPOY, and took Purdue to the NCAA title game. But, is he the BEST player to ever to wear a Purdue uni? For me, I don't think anyone comes close to Big Dog. So, I'd have to rank Zach second behind GRob despite all of the records and trophies he leaves with. Zach was a 20-10 guy. Glenn was a 30-10 guy. I would have loved to have had #13 play at least full three seasons. That probabaly was never going to happen even if he hadn't lost his freshman year to Prop 48. But, I think he would have obliterated the Purdue and B1G record books had he played 3 full years.

Boilers land Destini Lombard out of the transfer portal. 5-9 guard was WAC DPOY, averaged 10.1 points, 4.2 rebounds and four assists per game.

Connect the dots.


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Waiting for Gillis & Morton to pick my
2nd & 3rd favorite teams of 2024-25.

April 15: (tonight), WNBA Draft - I've got the Fever for Caitlin Clark!

May 1st: Spring Portal closes, can't enter
May 12: NBA Draft Lottery will be held.
May 12-19: NBA Draft Combine - Chicago, New rule: If invited, must attend & participate, else not eligible for this draft.
May 29: Early NBA Entrants Deadline to remove name.

June 1: Recruits start to arrive on campus.
Time for a lot of scrimmages to see how the pieces fit.
June 5: Jr-Sr All-Star game at Kokomo, Benter & Fine
June 7: IN at KY Stars in Lexington
June 8: KY at IN Stars in Gainbridge Fieldhouse
June 21-23: Charlie Hughes IHSAA Boys Basketball Showcase at Carmel & Westfield HS
June 23: Last year, Purdue announced the non-con schedule.
June 26: NBA Draft, 1st Rd
June 27: NBA Draft, 2nd Rd

July 12-22: NBA Summer League starts in Viva Las Vegas! Go get'em Zach! Boiler Up!
July 19: TBT starts - Men of Mackey, Let's go!
5 new venues, one is Butler.
July 26: Last year, the Arkansas charity game was announced.

Aug: Guys continuing to scrimmage & fitting pieces together.

Sept 20: Last year, Purdue announced the full schedule.
Sept 26: Last year, Purdue had it's first official practice.

Oct 28: Last year, Purdue played Ark in a charity game. Who will it be this year?

~ Nov 5: Here we go again.

Since, Painter schedules by how strong the team is,
I expect the schedule to be a little easier this year.
The Rady's San Diego Children Invitational on
Thanksgiving should be an excellent tournament.
Teams are: Arkansas, BYU, ND, and Purdue. Those
will all have fairly new coaches except Purdue.
Maybe, Morton & Gillis will be playing for Shrews.
Arizona should be somewhere on the schedule.

Well, Boiler Up! & Hammer Down!

Just in case anyone still liked Draymond Green, welcome to the other side:

https://www.si.com/college/purdue/n...s-final-four-march-madness-college-basketball

Such a clown take. Cannot wait for Edey to read this and block his chit in the paint next year.

A key piece of Purdue's non-conference schedule is set per Jon Rothstein.

Matchups aren't set yet for the Rady's
Children Invitational in San Diego, but
should be an awesome event. Teams
participating are Arkansas, BYU, ND, and
Purdue. Two games on Thanksgiving Day
(11/28), and Championship on Black Friday.

Purdue will also play Arizona in Vegas, in 2024.
When? TBD

Boiler Up!

Indiana Pacers.

Stated that Pacers need more height and Edey could be their guy.

Wouldn't that be great.

Criticism is not something anyone thinks I'm against for sure.

But we aren't talking about Purdue fans with differences of opinion, we are talking about a handful of trolls from IU coming in and my humble recommendation is we all hit the ignore button and stop engaging them.