If he’s not now, I bet he will be by end of his senior year.
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What's there to understand. If you are a 1 or 2 seed, you can't lose to a 16 or 15 seed period. And after the disasterous tournaments in the previous seasons reaching the final game is outperforming no matter how you choose to look at it.
Painter was getting too comfortable and when you are too comfortable you tend to underperform. I have no problem with fans being upset and Painter deserved all criticisms for these epic loses.
That isn’t making sense. We were ranked number 1 at times (for third straight year) and were the second best team all year. We had the hardest strength of schedule. Expectations were a final four/NC—did you not expect that?, plus another big ten championship. And they did just that except for the NC because we, as fans actually got to see the two best teams against each other.
This isn't that hard. When you underperform 70% of the time in the tournament. There's a 70% chance that we don't make the final 4 even when we are expected to. Winning another game on the final 4 is exceeding expectation peroid.
So you’re saying that your FIRE PAINTER
Petition was the kick in the ass that Matt needed to work harder and get his team to the final four ?
Hmmm. I look at it year by year, as each team is different with players and the experience each player has. If all stayed the same, then I’d agree but since it doesn’t, i don’t agree with you. But you seem to always have some pretty pessimistic views so to each their own.
It wasn't my petition. I have way more important things to do. But I bet your redneck a$$ that Painter would have been called to BoBo office if we lose last year in the first round again...
Like cry on the internet about some teenagers you don’t know not playing basketball well enough for your liking.
Apparently you don't have more important things to do.
If you put any stock in the odds, you absolutely shouldn’t expect it because the odds are against you making the FF, even as a one seed.
It sounds odd to say it, but making the final four as a one seed should be considered exceeding expectations. Making it to the national championship game even more so.
This just sounds so incredibly whiney.
Ok well my expectations were that with the reigning NPOTY and everyone back.
And then do a whole lotta backtracking it looks like when it turns out he was quite wrong.
Don't be an idiot. It wasn't my petition. I posted someone else petition. Every TRUE Purdue fans SHOULD be mad, after losing to a 16, 15 & a 13 seeds in that fashion.
Yeah we were. But we were realistic in knowing if you fire Painter, you then have to go find a coach, rebuild and be worse off for a few years or more.
Hell, it may end up worse… look down south and see what a dumpster fire that’s been for 3 decades. They’re still hanging on to the glory days like a high school quarterback who has never left his hometown, married the head cheerleader right out of high school and looks at his old newspaper clippings on the wall from 30+ years ago on a daily basis.
I'm not criticizing, you are obviously free to have whatever expectations you want. I'm just saying that even as one of the best teams in the country, making it to the FF or NC game bucks the odds. There's so much randomness in the NCAAT that those things are real achievements, even with one of the top teams in the country.
I'm not sure why it's hard for fans to admit they don't think clearly when their emotions run wild. The fact that our feelings are hurt or we're embarrassed when we lose a game we shouldn't have zero impact on what's best for the program.
Agreed. I just don’t agree with we outperformed due to previous year results when each team is different every year.
I'm not trying to pick a fight but statistically, there's no debating that we did. Even with Zach returning the odds of us reaching the NC game at the start of the season were much lower than 50%.
Again, you can have whatever personal expectations you want, I'm not saying you're wrong to do so.
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