This hurts. I thought he would be the next great one.
Brady Allen gone
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Very surprising especially with Harrell at OC.
Whoever Purdue's QB is, he's going to be throwing it all over the yard. You'd think that would be a QBs dream. Perhaps though, this tells us more that Aliamo is real deal?
For anyone who has seen Allen play is he mobile?
Very surprising especially with Harrell at OC.
Whoever Purdue's QB is, he's going to be throwing it all over the yard. You'd think that would be a QBs dream. Perhaps though, this tells us more that Aliamo is real deal?
For anyone who has seen Allen play is he mobile?
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Only thing that I am hopefully thinking....maybe we've got an impressive qb coming in from portal...,otherwise....yes! This stings!
He probably read the article about who our portal targets might be and decided he was not going to play with a bunch of MAC caliber players! The remaining coaches made zero effort to attract anybody via the portal. The one recruit Walters landed came to Purdue because he lost his scholarship to auburn.
I suspect there will be others that will follow his lead
I suspect there will be others that will follow his lead
Unless there is someone new, many of the top portal QB transfers are already committed to other schools.
Back home???? Gibson Southern is not IU Central.
Reading Hudson Card is a real possibility (Texas). Impressive rankings out of high school.
Would he go to IU just so he could start with those turkeys?I would bet that he will really regret it if he does!So he wants to start for Tom Allen instead of giving Ryan Walters a chance?? Of course Walters is unproven as a head coach but all Allen has proved is that he can lose like every other Hoosier coach for the last 75 years!
Transfer seems to coincide with the talk of Hudson Card.
I may lose interest in watching college football, it's getting ruined. I thought when Harrell signed , we were safe w/ Brady. Maybe he doesn't like his system plus all this talk of bringing in a portal guy didn't help I imagine
What do we really know about his development and playing opportunities in the future at Purdue? We've never seen him really play any significant time in a game. Like many other things happening at Purdue, unless one is directly involved, the rest is pure speculation.
It's almost as if Louisville's OC/QB coach is still sitting in meetings/practices with him. Hmmm.... wonder where he'll end up.
Exact reason we should have shown Brian Brohm, Hagen, and the other coaches that are packing up to move to Louisville, the door as soon as they decided they weren't being retained at Purdue.
Exact reason we should have shown Brian Brohm, Hagen, and the other coaches that are packing up to move to Louisville, the door as soon as they decided they weren't being retained at Purdue.
Totally agree. Big blunder on Bobinski. We should have brought in the West Lafayette High school football coaching staff for the bowl game. We would have been much better off.
I’m thinking Louisville. It’s probably just as close to Gibson Southern as Purdue is.
Yeah, anything would have been better than having another university's coaching staff coaching our bowl game.
I’m sure Brees could have assembled a skeleton staff to coach what’s left of our bowl team.
In the end I am not sure Brady Allen really fit the air raid offense that is coming here, I know he is a good athlete but not sure if he can excel at running an RPO. I think Alaimo could be adequate not be the starter next year if he chooses to stay after we get our portal guy. With Brady there was a pretty large gap between 3rd string Alaimo and 4th string this year.
I’m not really sure the air raid offense is coming here. I hear more fans talking about it than the coaches. And yes it was sure stupidity on Bono’s part to keep Brian here. While other teams were scooping up all the decent portal players, all he did was talk to our current players and incoming recruits about how great Louisville will be. Because of his total lack of action, Purdue missed out totally on the quality players in the portal. And are now drooling over mac level talent to fill our holes.
I think I agree with everything you said Wolegib, and I shouldn't have referred to incoming offense as the air raid, it is its own hybrid version mixing in the run nicely from unique formations. So far, the possibilities in that offense is the only thing about this transition that has me overly excited.
What I’m saying is it could happen but it needs the right parts to make it happen. Do we have the right receivers, offensive line and qb to make it happen?
Last year at WV, because of key injuries, our coach had to make drastic changes to the style of offense he wanted to employ.
As I recall under Hazell his oc that he brought in from nc st said he had to dummy down his play book and had to eliminate half of his plays because the players could not comprehend or execute the plays in his playbook.
If you have time, look up some of his press releases after some of our losses and the explanations he provided.
An air raid offense would be nice. But you need to have the parts.
Last year at WV, because of key injuries, our coach had to make drastic changes to the style of offense he wanted to employ.
As I recall under Hazell his oc that he brought in from nc st said he had to dummy down his play book and had to eliminate half of his plays because the players could not comprehend or execute the plays in his playbook.
If you have time, look up some of his press releases after some of our losses and the explanations he provided.
An air raid offense would be nice. But you need to have the parts.
Go back home??? You do understand Bloomington is about 2 hours away from Gibson Southern, right?? Not everywhere in Southern IN is IU country...
Didn't he tweet some positive things about Purdue just last week, indicating that he was staying?
LOL, Slovis ran for a grand total of -36 yards at USC under Harrells offense at USC. And JT Daniels rushed for -51 yards at WV.
Harrell's offense doesn't run the option...
I think this is an important point. Based on Allen's recruiting rankings, I think some people are making a lot of assumptions. I don't think Allen's decision to leave says anything about what kind of offense our OC will run or whether there are internal issues or anything else.
I do agree that having Little Brohm here to coach the bowl game is unwise.
Harrell is going to incorporate the RPO at Purdue and his players and recruits know this, and Gibson Southern is very much IU country. Anywhere South of Indy toward Terre Haute and Evansville is simply IU country, not too many people grow up cheering for the Purple Aces at Gibson Southern.
Harrell didn't run the option at either USC or WV. WTF are you talking about?
I live in Southern IN and it's no different here than Northern IN. You have no idea WTF you're talking about...
RPO and Running the Option are 2 different things. RPO gives the QB the option to pull the ball from the RB if the pass is available. It's all about the QB reading what the defense is doing and deciding on the fly. That's only on a percentage of plays.
From an article on Harrell:
"As a guy who both played and coached under Mike Leach, it should go without saying that Graham Harrell is an air raid guy. This doesn't mean that he likes to throw it around as much as his mentor - Harrell's USC was 57% pass during his three year tenure while his North Texas offenses were an even more balanced 51%; Leach is always well north of 70% - but he absolutely subscribes to the air raid philosophy of focusing on executing a limited number of concepts at a high level. This "keep it simple" approach should be a welcome change for an offense that has often looked unsure of what it was trying to be as a result of trying to be too many things at once.
Harrell's passing attack features traditional air raid concepts such as mesh, stick, smash, sail, and verticals packaged up in a bunch of different formations and personnel groupings ranging from 4-wide to two tights (though 11 is most prevalent). He'll also split those up into half-field concepts where, as an example, the receivers on the left side of the formation will run a smash concept while the guys on the right run sail."
Are you confusing the Triple Option with a Run Pass Option? Because RPOs are definitely part of the modern Air Raid offense; whether Harrell will utilize them or not, I'm not sure.
Look at how much the QB ran at USC and WV under Harrell. Slovis and Daniels both had negative rushing yardage. His QBs didn't run the ball at either location, which is what the OP was suggesting by saying Allen may not want to run...
I understand what RPO means...
RPO usually does not involve the QB running the ball. It's more about the QB deciding after reading the defense whether to hand the ball off to the RB or play-action and throw it.
Unless you're Josh Allen. When you have every option imaginable for you.
Unless you're Josh Allen. When you have every option imaginable for you.
