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My second thoughts are based on his "help" in our coach search that ended up with Hazell.
He has no business becoming AD at Purdue. None.
I want NOTHING to do with Grigson. As a whole, I consider his tenure with the Colts to be a disaster. Overpaying, long contracts for old free agents, bad trade for TRich, terrible drafting (lack of production, ignoring positions of need), and now making a scapegoat out of Pep & Pagano. I struggle to find many positives about him other than....his alma mater. He's not even the best Boilermaker GM in the piss-poor AFC south.
I said before if he is so enamored with DH, then buy him out and take him. I am not a Colts fan, but to have a QB like Luck and NO OL to protect him, and Grigson played OL, what an idiot. Black eye for NWI being a Highland guy.
Before you all blast Grigson for personnel choices, you have to realize that the head of personnel decisions for the colts is the pill popper president. As long as Irsay thinks he is a genius the colts will make these mistakes.
What he's done with the Colts? He took over a 2-14 team and built three straight 11-5 seasons, winning the NFL Executive of the Year trophy in the process. Now they've finished 8-8 without their star and after going five deep in quarterbacks with another dozen players on injured reserve.
Quit reading those IU hacks at the rag Star and use your Purdue common sense. It's not Grigson's job to be popular, especially not in the locker room. He can't get tied to the players. He has to shuffle them and the roster all year every year.
And his results have been a helluva lot better than the NFL norm.
Quit reading those IU hacks at the rag Star and use your Purdue common sense. It's not Grigson's job to be popular, especially not in the locker room. He can't get tied to the players. He has to shuffle them and the roster all year every year.
And his results have been a helluva lot better than the NFL norm.
Colts needed OL and secondary last season and instead of the doing the smart thing, he drafted a WR and signed washed-up players (Frank Gore was the only one who did anything this season.)
He is a poor GM. Andrew Luck covered up a lot of mistakes. The Richardson trade alone was a fireable offense.
I should note, im a Bengals fan and i think Grigson should be fired.
I'll give you 2012 as a good year for him. Since then he's been a disaster missing far more than hitting on his personnel decisions. Add the meddling of who plays or doesn't play and the Colts won't get any to coach them as long as he's there. He has to go.
Took over a 2-14 team? Sorry, gotta chuckle at that one. That 2-14 team was a 10-6 team from the previous year with Curtis Painter in place of injured Peyton Manning. Insert Andrew Luck and they pop back up to 11 wins. Do have to give him credit for drafting Luck, although bringing back Peyton probably would have worked out just as well.
Best case, you can give him credit for sustaining (until this year) what Polian created. Worst case, you can now see the cracks in the foundation from poor decisions the past few years.
All that being said, I'm not exactly sure how much NFL GM translates to College AD.
don't follow the Colts, but anytime I watch them on TV the one thing that stands out is their OL is pretty bad.
Grigson changed 70 percent of the Colts' roster in his first year. Insert that.
Dallas has an offensive line stacked with first-round picks, and look what happened to Romo ... twice. And where are the Cowboys now ... 4-12.
Division champs in a division with the mighty Jacksonville Jaguars and their last winning season in 2008. Perennial playoff team, Houston Texans. And the last boy in the band? The Tennessee Titans. Yes the same Titans who were a Super Bowl runner up in 1999. #Impressive
Great point -- everyone is a disaster except the Colts ... largely thanks to routine sweeps by the Colts.
So maybe that other Purdue-product GM needs to be fired now, too?
You're letting the record cloud your view of his otherwise bas choices.
Bad roster management.
Bad drafting outside of luck.
Forcing Pep Hamilton on pagano
Forcing pagano to play certain players this year.
Either you're trolling or too lazy to look beyond the record
I don't remember a large number of people wanting him to become Purdue AD or, frankly, any. Not saying there were none but I don't remember it ever even being discussed, let alone "many". Maybe I'm forgetting.
This thread has nothing to do with Grigson coming back to Purdue in any capacity. It is all about complaining that Grigson is the Colts GM and they had a lousy, by previous standards, season. It is a typical Purdue fan bitch thread and nothing more.
Look beyond the record? Look beyond the record? Are you serious?
Either you're a fool or you're nuts or all of the above. What's your documentation?
The bottom line is always the bottom line.
For every Trent Richardson, there's a Vontae Davis.
And goodness knows they had too many healthy receivers out there running around full speed this season.
But why draft a WR when they have bigger needs such as O-line and defense?
You are giving Grigson credit for what was put in place by polian.
Everyone thinks Grigson is bad (including national pundits) except you. You're right, everyone else is wrong.
That kind of talent and speed is much harder to come by, and just about everyone on the Colt corps wound up gimpy at some point this year.
Dallas is a great example of investing first-round picks on offensive linemen -- the quarterback still can go down, even twice, and there's suddenly a huge lack of playmakers. And the Cowboys' 4-12 was a lot worse to watch than the Colts' 8-8.
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