Wow…

Mad Anthonys honor Painter​

Purdue coach, local philanthropists to get Red Coats​

JUSTIN A. COHN | The Journal Gazette​

Purdue men's basketball coach Matt Painter will be one of the recipients of the Mad Anthonys' Red Coats, the charitable organization announced Thursday, and will be honored May 21 at the Clyde Theatre.
The Mad Anthonys will also give Red Coats – their highest honor – to Rick and Vicki James of Metal Technologies Inc. and the James Foundation.
Red Coats have been given to myriad celebrities, sports figures, politicians and philanthropists since 1958. The Mad Anthonys' Pro-Am golf tournament will be June 20 at Pine Valley Country Club and raise money for the Mad Anthonys Children's Hope House, which provides lodging and support services for families of children undergoing pediatric and neonatal treatment.
“Whether it's on the court, in business or in philanthropy, coach Painter and Rick and Vicki James are amazing and inspiring success stories,” Sherri Miller, president of the Mad Anthonys Foundation, said in a news release. “Just as importantly, they're wonderful examples of people who utilize their success to give back and make an impact on people and communities. We are incredibly thrilled to recognize them as our 2022 Red Coat recipients.”

Painter, who according to the Mad Anthonys was born in Fort Wayne, has been the Boilermakers' head coach since 2005. He's been selected the Big Ten Coach of the Year four times and was the National Association of Basketball Coaches Coach of the Year in 2019. He's led Purdue to the Sweet 16 three times in the last four years.
Rick James founded Auburn-based Metal Technologies Inc., a global metal casting company, in 1997 and helped the company expand to Michigan, Minnesota and Mexico.
He stepped back from day-to-day management of Metal Technologies in 2012 and founded the James Foundation with his wife, Vicki. According to its website, the James Foundation focuses on “funding and enhancing all levels of educational experiences to promote good citizenship and leadership through education; community by promoting the arts, the cultural fabric of our communities; and faith by enriching the Christian discipleship and leadership in all life experiences.”
Trine University has bestowed Rick James with its highest honor, the Pillar of Success Award, and Trine has honored Vicki with its Woman of Distinction Award. In addition to being chairman of the Trine University board of trustees, Rick is chair of the National Park Foundation.
“Vicki and I have long been admirers of the Mad Anthonys and the important work they make possible in our community, so this is an incredible honor for us,” Rick James said in a news release. “To join such an illustrious group of Red Coat recipients is an amazing experience for us, and we're excited to help them raise money for many important causes in our community.”
The Mad Anthonys are composed of business leaders and professionals from northeast Indiana.

Only an hour 'til tip-off but I have an extra pair of upper arena tickets, AND an extra single ticket.

I'm happy to text them to a Boilermaker who can use them.

UPDATE: Tickets are going to a fellow Boilermaker who will be taking his daughter to her first game! Boiler Up!

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Honestly, this may be the deadest recruiting week of the year right now — and I'm not forgetting that there was a pandemic — so you'll have to bear with us when things get a little light.

PURDUE BASKETBALL RECRUITING

Purdue's basketball program has been quiet the past couple weeks, as the players all went home — or wherever they may go when such opportunities present themselves — prior to the fall semester and coaches either decompressed following July or moved from wherever they lived last year (or saw their families who may still live in those places.)

So not much going on beyond what we have told you already, that Purdue will host Xavier Booker and Myles Colvin for official visits for the Oregon State weekend, the first official visit events of the 2023 cycle for the Boilermaker staff.

Meanwhile, on the 2022 front, for as much as Matt Painter will want to avoid building a program around the transfer portal, with every week that passes it seems more and more likely that if Purdue is going to find a big man for the 2022 class, that may be the most likely avenue, though coaches still have all fall to find something in an open gym that they couldn't find in July.

Things have happened before where new high school offers have popped up in September or even October, months after Purdue had watched kids play. Zach Edey is one example.

But the circumstances now are different. When Matt Haarms (another example) and Edey were offered, that happened after some other players who Purdue had been waiting on fell off the board. This summer, there has been little to no Impetus for Purdue to wait on anything. Tarris Reed was the last man standing, and Purdue had to have an idea that was happening well in advance of it becoming official. (I'm still surprised things didn't come together with Kebba Njie to be honest.)

That's It, folks. That's what's going on right now for Purdue in basketball recruiting: Very little until September visits start.

Couple other small things ...

• Again, if you're prone to such things, don't fret over the buzz about Myles Colvin and the Overtime Elite pro (semi-pro?) league. The family is obviously flattered and happy to tout a pretty high compliment for an emerging player, but they see the big picture here, obviously. He'll be at Purdue.

He'll also be ranked on a few top-100/top-150 lists when such things start coming out. (BN)

PURDUE FOOTBALL

New Boilermaker transfer Sampson James should now be on campus and should start practicing next week. Again, if there's a path to him being eligible to play right away, we're not sure what it is. You never say never, but we'd consider it a long shot. (staff)

PURDUE FOOTBALL RECRUITING

This weekend, the Indiana high school football season starts.

I'm going to go out to the West Lafayette-Jeff game to watch Mariere Omonode — who Purdue is still waiting on; it's a bit surprising he's not made a call yet between them and Arkansas State.

Among Purdue's commitments ...

Linebacker Domanick Moon and Snider will open against Fort Wayne North, which has Purdue 2023 wide receiver/athlete target Tae Johnson.

Joe Strickland and Brebeuf open up at Chatard. I'll cover their home opener next weekend against New Palestine. (Always easier to cover home games, since there's no rush for them to get on a bus after the game.)

Brady Allen and Gibson Southern will get a hell of a test early from 5A Columbus North.

As always we'll do our best to get you accurate stats and results each weekend, and get to as many games in-person as we can during the fall.

The 2022 cycle, or at least the early portion of it, Is down to just corner as an urgent need.

Purdue wants Omonode and we believe they could and would accommodate another wide receiver should the opportunity arise, but cornerback is the last need, per se.

PURDUE BASKETBALL

Couple small notes ...

• Summer buzz is what it is, but Isaiah Thompson had a good summer when he was healthy, by every account. Purdue liked how he played late in the season and he seems to have done a good job this summer. As we've said before, Thompson himself has admitted that he didn't have the greatest off-season last year but the unprecedented circumstances.

• Purdue's aim to replace the Crossroads Classic on its schedule is a wide-open slate and may not necessarily result in an annual local event.

• One of the areas where sophomore Ethan Morton will be quick to tell he needs to improve: Defensively, especially against quicker people.

That said, he did mention the hypothetical of Purdue cross-matching up defensively, the way it has at times over the years, notably with Carsen Edwards and Nojel Eastern.

That would mean Morton playing the point guard position on offense, but guarding a different position, which would then mean Jaden Ivey or someone else — Eric Hunter or Thompson if they ever moved off the 1 to play with Morton if that ever happened — handling full-court pressure on the other team's primary ball-handler.

That would seem like something where Morton would need to providing huge value offensively for that to be in order. Otherwise, if Purdue wants him out there it could be at positions other than the 1 so that defensive matchups are already optimized. The window for him to play the 4 has likely come and gone, but the 2 and the 3 are spots he can be slotted into.

You can tell we have nothing else to write about, can't you? (BN)

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Cardinals' Rondale Moore: Maintains limited standing​

Rotowire 1 HR AGO
Moore (ankle) was limited at practice Thursday, Josh Weinfuss of ESPN.com reports.
This marks the sixth practice report in a row in which Moore has been listed as limited. He's also missed three consecutive contests due to an ankle injury, though, so the Cardinals may need him to log every rep in a given session before giving him clearance to play in a game. Moore will have two more chances to do so before the team decides whether to hand him a designation for Monday's playoff opener versus the Rams.

8-4 (2-1)

W vs New Hampshire 93-50
W vs Samford 91-54
W at Northern Iowa 82-61
W vs Southern 87-67
L at Duke 79-64
W vs Michigan State 88-61
L at Iowa State 77-70
W vs UCF 69-61
L vs IUPUI 74-73
W vs Evansville 93-56
L vs Northwestern 77-69
W at Nebraska 95-86

Clark's last 3 games she has scored 44, 30, and 31. However, she is shooting less than 25% from 3 on the season and has attempted more than twice as many an anyone else on the team with 109 on the season. In their 4 losses, she was 7 of 40 if I counted correctly. So it looks like she is willing to take plenty of them and doesn't connect on a high percentage. I wonder if we back up off her to try to keep her out of the lane and dare her to beat us from deep. She averages 7 assists a game and 7 free throw attempts a game where she averages 90% so I think she's far more likely to beat us with her driving and her passing than her outside shooting. That's how I'd play it anyway. We'll see what we try against her.

Also of note, they've lost their last 4 games coming off of a win. They won their last game. By that pattern, they are due for a loss.

is not at all what this post is about.

Despite most of Indiana being bizarrely spared regular amounts of snow as of late, I am in the market for a new snowblower.

My trusty, rusty MTD gas-powered blower of 16 years finally died, With the surfeit of electric blowers now available, I'd like to know if anyone here owns an electric-battery powered blower and if they are worth it.

Thanks, and have a nice day.

Tonight, I will miss my first Purdue MBB home game in over 30 years. I am in quarantine due to COVID. Bummer!!!!

The only good thing is that I will not have my usual 200 mile round trip to the game

Yeah we’ve known that for the 174 years he’s been around!! Racist and mean old Joe

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For what it’s worth. He definitely played a huge part in securing our bowl victory.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/ohio-state-qb-c-j-111652466.html

I think there is at least one other Boilermaker who should’ve got a mention but hey, at least Purdue got a mention.

Thoughts?

(I love that Derrick Walker, by the way.)

This would be big if so as I see him as being our best position coach: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.si...cus-shepard-will-become-husky-receivers-coach

So, Ward Lambert (Purdue coach of 1940 outright Big Ten Champs) turned down the NCAA invite because he considered it 2nd rate compared to NIT (IU then invited because finished 2nd in Big Ten / IU would win 1940 NCAA). It does appear NIT was greater than NCAA at least until 1951 and probably until 1957 or 1958. 1957 North Carolina might have been 1st NCAA Champion where NCAA was greater than NIT. It really makes you look at the early NCAA tournament champions in a different light.

Purdue in 1932 finished #1 in Premo-Porretta Power Poll (1896-1948) at season end. Purdue was the National Champion in 1932.

Purdue in 1969 advanced to the NCAA tournament Final Four where they beat North Carolina and Dean Smith by 27 points before losing to UCLA and John Wooden in the Championship game.

1980 Purdue advanced to the NCAA tournament Final Four once again before losing to UCLA who later was found to use ineligible players.

1932, 1969, and 1980 in that order are Purdue's best years so far on the national level.

I see Purdue in the 2022 Final Four, we hardly ever beat teams like North Carolina and Villanova
in the same regular season (and the way we beat them = outscoring them, just what you need in March). And before his time is done, Painter and Purdue are going to hang the 1st NCAA Tournament National Championship banner in Mackey, too, where the NCAA is clearly greater than the NIT.

Justing putting into perspective that even if Purdue had the 1940 NCAA Tournament champion banner up in Mackey, it really would not mean what the same banner after 1957-ish means.

Purdue has a solid national legacy, and its about to grow some more in the future. Go Boilers!

What an awesome name, like a modern Pink Floyd song.

https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2021/trinity-bell-256646

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Currently has us as #3 seed in the Midwest, which I was pretty shocked to see, especially with how many top-10 teams have lost in the past couple of weeks. Easily the lowest I’ve seen us projected in any brackets.

Watching this BYU/ Zaga game and it is 74-58 Zags with 15:42 left.
Looks like a couple of Co-Rec games I played in over the time I was at Purdue.

We (sane people) all knew Biden would be bad but did any of us think he would be THIS bad in year one???

Some Purdue players are selling pretty cool NIL experiences and lessons on Stipend. Check it out. Would be a great opportunity to get you or your kid Tennis or Baseball lessons:

stipend.info/purdue

Was at Oregon.