And I think that’s just where we differ.
I go back to brohm clowning lovie in 2019. During the game I was reading Illinois loyalty. As I’ve always encountered with Illinois fans, there seemed to be this disbelief that Purdue was winning like that. As though the natural order of the world said it should be the opposite. And if you guys were Michigan, I’d wholeheartedly agree. Except that Darrell hazell had just gone 2-1 against you, you’re 6-16 against Purdue since joe tiller was hired, and the last time you won more than 2 out of any 4 games, Jordan had just won his first championship.
And this is yet another example. When brohm had gone 7-6 in 2017, Pat Fitzgerald was already wow’d by the environment for the 2018 home opener. Where as, if Purdue football was Illinois football, brohm would have needed to have been leading the division in 2018 to start talking about buy-in in 2019.