I want

[boilersallthewaynow]

WKU'S offensive staff for Purdue. Damn they do score points and have all season.

 

[PaBoiler78]

the trouble when looking at schools like WKU, Marshall etc. I'm sure they have lots of guys who would be marginal students at Purdue.

 

[boilersallthewaynow]

Is there ever a happy meeting point for Purdue?

 

[Inspector100]

Originally posted by PaBoiler78:

the trouble when looking at schools like WKU, Marshall etc. I'm sure they have lots of guys who would be marginal students at Purdue.

I usually agree with your posts, but this one has me baffled. Academics have nothing to do with any of our problems on the field. So, if you are serious with your statement, I emphatically disagree. If you said all that in jest, please state so and we will move on with tongue in cheek.

 

[AZboiler]

I truly believe coaches recruiters select recruits based purely on size and project-ibility than performance. That explains why players like Brees, Morales and Kerrigan slip through the cracks. - I apologize for the Kerrigan comment - I just don't recall that Ryan was overly recruited.
But where does that leave the performers who are not overly gifted physically? It means those kids who just get the job done end up at the WKU's and Illinois States. It does not mean those kids are not academically challenged, it can mean that those kids are NOT the physically gifted kids during recruiting. . It can also mean those kids just work harder than others at the higher levels.
I just like the Brees model better than the Orton model. The smart ultra motivated kid vs the extremely gifted but less motivated.

 

[Purdue79Grad]

Orton was the No. 2 ranked quarterback in the nation by SuperPreps
Rod Woodson was number 1 in Indiana; Jeff George was USA Today national player of the Year.

Why aren't we landing more top 20 players at their respective positions?

 

[pboiler18]

Originally posted by Purdue79Grad:
Orton was the No. 2 ranked quarterback in the nation by SuperPreps
Rod Woodson was number 1 in Indiana; Jeff George was USA Today national player of the Year.

Why aren't we landing more top 20 players at their respective positions?

Things have changed vastly since those guys got here.

Purdue has shown they don't care to compete....just want to balance the checkbook. The mantra has been repeated over and over by top brass. It's been repeated so much, that since we now all know that the Admin doesn't give a crap about winning that we will no longer fill their checkbooks and make it harder for them to execute on their strategy!

 

[boiler17]

Originally posted by pboiler18:

Originally posted by Purdue79Grad:
Orton was the No. 2 ranked quarterback in the nation by SuperPreps
Rod Woodson was number 1 in Indiana; Jeff George was USA Today national player of the Year.

Why aren't we landing more top 20 players at their respective positions?

Things have changed vastly since those guys got here.

Purdue has shown they don't care to compete....just want to balance the checkbook. The mantra has been repeated over and over by top brass. It's been repeated so much, that since we now all know that the Admin doesn't give a crap about winning that we will no longer fill their checkbooks and make it harder for them to execute on their strategy!

Really? I think they care very much about winning but it is secondary to their need to keep the importance of football/events other than education 'in perspective'. Its clear to me from how they operate that there is no 10 year plan for athletics that isnt dependent on what the university wants on a whim.

I think its that perspective and the lack of them seeing money spent as an investment that holds them back. Everything else is the normal challenge to success everyone else deals with at some point.

Perhaps we are saying the same thing....

 

[AZboiler]

If as you state there is no 10 year or 5 year plan that isn't based on BOT whims, then what basis do you use for saying the BOT or University cares about winning over other objective such as continued revenue streams.
The near term evidence seems to point in the other direction.