these punks eeked out win after win against us. It's time to deliver a serious beat down. I don't even dislike butler or their fans, but sometimes you just gotta win by 20.
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There is always a team that seems to have another teams 'number' as it were and Butler has consistently had ours. Time to change that.
I want to beat them more than anyone else on our schedule. One of my first posts on this forum was on this very topic. We can't be splitting this state 4 ways in basketball. Butler is a team that we need to be beating consistently and outperforming in the tourney. I would be fine if they became a cellar dwellar in their conference.
Would you now consider them are biggest rival in basketball? Even bigger than Iowa?!!!
Butler has relegated Iowa to OMHR#2 status
I sure hope we finally beat Butler at the Crossroads Classic. Always seems like this is a home game for Butler because it almost is. Always seems like they get the lucky bounces and everything going their way every time. With our 4 seniors, we have to do it this year! A win here could definitely help our seeding down the road! (At least a +1 or -1 in my opinion depending on the outcome) Butler is still a good team, 8 and 2, I believe, so we need to be focused, but we can do this! Boiler Up! Prediction: Purdue 78, Butler 75.
Purdue seems to have had Whisky's and Illinois' number @ their venues. I think Purdue is the only B1G school to win more than twice at the Kohl's Center since it opened...or something ridiculous like that.
I want to see JT, Ewing, Eifert, Eastern and Tommy Luce on the floor for the final 5 minutes Saturday.
One thing I'll say for Butler, they always seem to come prepared and play hard. I expect more of the same Saturday.
Also, it always seems like Purdue has to swim against the current for fan support at this event, but Indiana's underwhelming start might cut down on the number of Hoosier fans there.
I'll say Purdue takes this one in a 68-63 meat grinder.
Also, it always seems like Purdue has to swim against the current for fan support at this event, but Indiana's underwhelming start might cut down on the number of Hoosier fans there.
I'll say Purdue takes this one in a 68-63 meat grinder.
Call it bitterness over 2010, sour grapes because they went to two national championship games in a row, or because during the dark times after Sampson a lot of IU bandwagon boys traded their candy cane pants for Butler hats and shirts---whatever the reason, I don't like Butler. I want to beat them, and beat them bad. You cannot convince me that they don't get away with a lot of fouls (over the back, bodying up playing "Cable Guy defense") because they are plucky, up-start Butler, doing it "the Butler way" with so much heart! Gag. It's like the a few years ago during the Pacers/Heat series when the commentators would say "Miami has really turned up the defensive intensity" meaning LeBron and Wade are fouling the hell out of people without being called for it. Couple that with the fact that the Crossroads is essentially always a true road game for Purdue, to paraphrase Bob Knight..."I'm sick and f#*king tired of losing to [Butler]!"
While totaling agreeing with you, I must add that the times I spent with Brad Stevens were really good times. Just a great, intelligent, humble, incredible person and Hayward/Howard/Mack were really cool/good guys while I was with them.
We used to play them all the time. Haven't liked Butler since the 60's. Not since a game in Indy where there was a brawl at the end of the game and a Butler player broke Roger Blalock's leg with a folding chair.
Their two starting guards (Kamar Baldwin and Aaron Thompson) both average more than 2.5 fouls per game, which is unusual for a team of their caliber (big man Tyler Wideman also averages 2.5 FPG). The Boilers are long overdue for a win over the Bulldogs.
I get the blossoming rivalry, but if Butler is a 2nd tier school, I'll take their success!
In full disclosure, I'm a Purdue and Butler grad, and love both programs, but my heart is in WL!
Those were legendary teams. Oh, my, goodness. If Hayward had stayed, my guess is Butler would be sporting a National Championship. But, it's all speculation.
Regardless, they were all Boilermaker-type players.
yep - absolutely ... I have a great story about Hayward and Howard. Too long for here.
Uh... I can't agree with this.
Butler fans simply came out of the shadows. IU fans hate, Hate, HATE Butler. Period.
IU fans cannot STAND it that they have another team to share the spotlight. They're bitter. Believe it.
Had Hayward came to Purdue, Robbie's knee wouldn't have hurt Purdue as bad
Purdue always seem to start slow and just seem flat the game after finals week the last few years, need to come out and play well from start to finish.
Ever since the story came out a few years ago that showed IU was the worst Div-1 team in Indiana, IU fans have hated Butler.
Essentially a career ending injury in December, '67 to the late Boiler.
Good article based on an interview with Roger, including his recollection of the fight, is located at https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...M4ChAWCCcwAA&usg=AOvVaw2P_CGfn-BKcpn0jL7tul50
Time has a way of embellishing memories sometimes. Might want to read the article elsewhere in this thread describing (in Blalock's own words) what really happened. Hint: No chairs involved (this wasn't a Bobby Knight/IU game).
The words from a former Bulldog player...
"Cox was and continues to be an A Hole. Mauck was not much different."
This was a big time miss, damn Scott Martin took Howard’s scholly. What could have been..
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