Bucket Game: Each Team One Game Removed From A Perfect Season

[Purdue80]

Unfortunately, our Boilermakers possess the wrong type of near-perfect season.
I am just ready to move on from football and from this A.D.
Try as he might, the body of work for Bobinski in terms of identifying and recruiting great coaching talent when filling openings is poor at best. I really have little confidence that he can a) be accountable and accept responsibility for his failure, b) make what should be an easy decision to fire the football coach that he recruited when every indication is that it is the right thing to do for everyone involved, or c) resign immediately so that a committee can do the job that he apparently cannot and hire a stellar and proven head coach and talented new athletic director.
It is just so depressing. Purdue has a stellar academic and character reputation. We do a wonderful job of developing leaders on the academic side of the house. Money should be no object in terms of hiring the right athletic department leadership and football coaching staff, and properly compensating players in all sports under the expected House settlement and NIL.
The problem is the scarcity mindset that must be purged with a reset that recognizes the new college athletics landscape.

 

[msfboiler3]

Unfortunately, our Boilermakers possess the wrong type of near-perfect season.
I am just ready to move on from football and from this A.D.
Try as he might, the body of work for Bobinski in terms of identifying and recruiting great coaching talent when filling openings is poor at best. I really have a little confidence that he can a) be accountable and accept responsibility for his failure, b) make what should be an easy decision to fire the football coach that he recruited when every indication is that it is the right thing to do for everyone involved, or c) resign immediately so that a committee can do the job that he apparently cannot and hire a stellar and proven head coach and talented new athletic director.
It is just so depressing. Purdue has a stellar academic and character reputation. We do a wonderful job of developing leaders on the academic side of the house. Money should be no object in terms of hiring the right athletic department leadership and football coaching staff, and properly compensating players in all sports under the expected House settlement and NIL.
The problem is the scarcity mindset that must be purged with a reset that recognizes the new college athletics landscape.

Purdue should never hire anyone without several years of head coaching experience. Purdue should have fired bobinski already and then fired walters during the bye. Unrelated but major props to the leaders on this team. They could have packed it in by now but gave themselves a shot to win last night after being down. Moving forward, i hope we fight next week and make it a game. Bobo needs to go immediatedly after. At this point i dont think walters will be let go and they will say it wouldnt be fair to the next ad to make a football hire without his input. By the time a replacement for bobo is found it will be too late to find a new coach until after next year.

 

[Purdue80]

Purdue should never hire anyone without several years of head coaching experience. Purdue should have fired bobinski already and then fired walters during the bye. Unrelated but major props to the leaders on this team. They could have packed it in by now but gave themselves a shot to win last night after being down. Moving forward, i hope we fight next week and make it a game. Bobo needs to go immediatedly after. At this point i dont think walters will be let go and they will say it wouldnt be fair to the next ad to make a football hire without his input. By the time a replacement for bobo is found it will be too late to find a new coach until after next year.

I think we could possibly flip the model and fire both Bobinski and Walters, and give the new football coach a say in hiring the new A.D.

 

[msfboiler3]

I think we could possibly flip the model and fire both Bobinski and Walters, and give the new football coach a say in hiring the new A.D.

I hope u are correct. I dont have much confidence in our admin.

 

[Purdue80]

I hope u are correct. I dont have much confidence in our admin.

I think President Chiang has blinders on. It wasn’t that long ago that he made a post on social media about Bobinski being the best AD in America.
We need to stop pretending and accept the brutal truth of where our athletic program is. Our best sports are those whose teams are led by coaches who were already in place before Bobinski’s arrival. That says a lot!
I believe in judging by results. Results under Bobinski’s watch for those programs where he has had direct influence are miserable.

 

[boilermaker75]

Wolegib would probably do a better job than Bobinski.

 

[Riveting]

I think President Chiang has blinders on. It wasn’t that long ago that he made a post on social media about Bobinski being the best AD in America.
We need to stop pretending and accept the brutal truth of where our athletic program is. Our best sports are those whose teams are led by coaches who were already in place before Bobinski’s arrival. That says a lot!
I believe in judging by results. Results under Bobinski’s watch for those programs where he has had direct influence are miserable.

Of course Painter was here, but he hired Brohm, which was a very good hire. Otherwise, what sports are you talking about?

 

[boilermaker75]

Of course Painter was here, but he hired Brohm, which was a very good hire. Otherwise, what sports are you talking about?

1. He hired Walters.
2. see 1.

 

[Purdue80]

Of course Painter was here, but he hired Brohm, which was a very good hire. Otherwise, what sports are you talking about?

He allowed women’s basketball to go further down the tubes and waited far too long to take action there. And basically his hand was forced given some of the behaviors that were occurring with the coaching staff.
Not very impressed yet with Coach Gearlds and the women’s basketball team. Perhaps the jury is still out, but recruiting doesn’t seem to be where it needs to be for the program to return to its glory days.
Still in wait-and-see mode relative to baseball, softball, soccer. But nothing stellar there yet.
I am hopeful for wrestling, but we seem to have regressed a bit there which could be a natural flow of teams.
Lost a very good head track coach.
Probably others if I would actually do a bit more research, but these are top of mind.

 

[Purdue80]

He allowed women’s basketball to go further down the tubes and waited far too long to take action there. And basically his hand was forced given some of the behaviors that were occurring with the coaching staff.
Not very impressed yet with Coach Gearlds and the women’s basketball team. Perhaps the jury is still out, but recruiting doesn’t seem to be where it needs to be for the program to return to its glory days.
Still in wait-and-see mode relative to baseball, softball, soccer. But nothing stellar there yet.
I am hopeful for wrestling, but we seem to have regressed a bit there which could be a natural flow of teams.
Lost a very good head track coach.
Probably others if I would actually do a bit more research, but these are top of mind.

And probably should add relative to Brohm, as several others have noted in other threads, that there did not seem to be any sort of succession plan in place for what was seen by everyone as Brohm’s eventual move to Louisville. In the medical profession that would be considered malpractice.

 

[galoot]

Maybe there is something to this Bobinski retire let the new AD hire the new coach…..I just looked up his age. He’s 67. He’s obviously heading out to pasture sooner than later. Why would you let someone with one foot out the door hire the next FB coach?

 

[purduealum06]

If Walters isn’t fired I will not watch 1 game of 2025 boilermaker football. I’ve thrown in the towel that bad. It’s really sad.