I’m waiting. Please tell me the freshmen you think improved the most freshman to sophomore year under brohm and we will look it up.
I’ll give you one. Trice
Cory trice saw more the 15 snaps for the first time as a redshirt freshman in 2019
2019 69.9
2020 65.0
2021 63.9
2022 75.4
But hey, brohm is an offensive coach right? And he recruited TE and WR as good as any position. Maybe Payne Durham
2019 61.9
Great! We have a guy whose pff as a freshman is 0.3 from scourton’s! This must mean he went to 80 in year two right?
2020 48.8
2021 72.9
2020 67.6
What happened?
What about linebacker? Where I think the best true (not nickel) full time linebacker he got out of high school and developed was Jaylan Alexander… and that really is not saying much.
2018 51.4
2019 55.3
2020 62.4
2021 65.6
What happened? Wasn’t Alexander supposed to surge to 70.0 as a sophomore?
The thing is, when you actually look, there aren’t many players Walters got from brohm who are playing worse than last year. And most of them are much better. I’ve never gotten much push back that players under 60 get you beat. So let’s look at the players he got back over 60
Last year vs this year
Allen 67.8 > 58.3
Jenkins 67.5 > 72.0
Omonode 66.0 > 77.0
Brevard 66.0 > 62.2
Sydnor 65.2 > 65.3
Scourton 62.2 > 80.8
Stevens 61.8 > 64.0
By the way, wanna see the defenders that returned to Purdue in 2017 for Brohm’s first year?
Now offense
Downing 75.3 > 64.6
Mockobee 72.0 > 67.1
Hartwig 71.9 > 69.8
Mbow 71.0 > 70.3
Tracy 63.5 > 87.0
Johnson 63.4 > 54.8
Sowinski 62.5 > 62.1
Rice 61.2 > 59.8
Those are all the returning players Walters got over 60.0 on pff last year in more than nominal snaps. 15 guys!!
@Beorik if you are looking for positive signs for a defensive head coach, here is one…
Tyrone Tracy’s 87.0 has been bested by a Purdue offensive 3 times since pff began handing out grades during the hope era. They are these
Aidan Oconnell 2021 - 90.6
Rondale Moore 2018 - 88.8
David bell 2021 - 87.5
That’s it. That’s the whole list in 12 years.