March is what matters, not Nov and Dec.
I'll send you a link to my November Madness Maui invitational bracket contest. Thousands of entrants. Huge payout.
Let's come back to this in March. Rankings mean nada if you just continually lose to double digit seeds in March.
I agree with you but the "naysayers" have their point as well. You don't have to agree with them but they have a point to an extent.
I'll be selling t-shirts for Christmas with our Nov/Dec record on it.
I hope he doesn't. November and December is what help you "get in" the tournament
We would all like more success in March, but I still enjoyed Purdue’s last season far more than, for example, the Colts’ last season.
Let's hope. The thing that allowed those teams to "break through" was the fact that they started getting NBA-level talent (and guards).
Nah. We’ve got a leaky faucet in the guest bathroom so let’s burn the house to the ground and start over.
It’s possible that Purdue will enter next season as pre-season #1, though I think Kansas and Duke will be right there as well. Recruits notice stuff like that. It all helps.
40+ years to be on the verge of a breakthrough.
I don't know...some on here keep telling me Purdue/Painter can't get top-level recruits to come here for a litany of reasons...West Lafayette, NIL, Purdue doesn't cheat, etc.
I think recruiting has taken a leap in the last few years and it's noticed with our
We can all agree our outside shooting cost us big time in the tourney. However, that game was not the first time our shooters were shooting blanks from outside! It’s not like we were averaging shooting 40% from the three and had just one bad night. Rather than continuing to shoot the 3, Painter and his staff should have found different ways to score rather than hoping our 3 point shooting would somehow miraculously improve over night!
If you want to do the play dumb, bad faith reading, pretend you don't know what things mean, answer questions with questions routine you go right ahead. I'll pass.
Celtics lost game 7 to Miami because they couldn’t hit a three and kept shooting them. That’s how Purdue lost to FDU. Painter should have said no more 3s, dump it into Zach and let him score and/or get fouled. That’s how Purdue could have won that game. Instead, Painter let them play stupid ball with predictable results.
Two of those three teams won a championship, so I don't really get what you are getting at. They were good in the regular season and tournament, but can't win every year.
What I was saying was the coaches had won championships and had outstanding regular season records, but it wasn’t good enough. Their teams wanted somebody who was better in the playoffs! Their team owners wanted a dynasty. Their team owners wanted a coach who could motivate his players to win it all. What I’m saying is if Painter was a coach in the NBA or NFL, he would have been fired long ago for not being able to win playoff games. Tony Dungy was a great coach at Tampa Bay but was fired because his success was only in the regular season. Tampa Bay hired Juden to replace him because of his playoff success. What I’m saying is if Painters teams keep choking in the playoffs, no matter what his regular season accomplishments are, Purdue will say, we need to go in different direction. Look at what happened to Coach Weber and Zo. Great coaches in the regular season. But fired because they just didn’t win the big games.
So true regarding some people’s perspective on this sport. I’d like to call it misguided and wrong, but that understates my feelings about their nonsense. To succeed, it takes persistence and faith. We exceeded every expectation last year, but no, let’s fire the coach and let the team go. “Replace ‘em all with real, bone-e-fied players that will win every tournament game! “.
I’m sure bonehead has a long list of replacements in his hip pocket. He just can’t let go of the walker to pull it out. No worries. I found out that you can let go of the walker and reach around if you are quick about it.
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That don’t matter in the sense that you beat Duke and Zaga in Nov but those same teams would run Purdue off the floor if they met in March.
I love the “who are we gonna get that’s better!?” crowd.
What the hell are you babbling about?I’m sure bonehead has a long list of replacements in his hip pocket. He just can’t let go of the walker to pull it out. No worries. I found out that you can let go of Ghent walker and reach around if you are quick about it.
That’s what IU has been saying for 20 plus years.
