I'm a Painter supporter....but what if
- Thread starter TwinDegrees2
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Man stop reading a thread for a couple of days and Peegs breaks out over here!!!
How many times has he beaten a higher seed?
How many times has he lost to a lower seed?
Now your 'average' doesn't seem so good.
But that's beside the point. After 11 years, you being happy with an average to slightly above average coach tells me something.
I think he's a good coach and yea I'm happy with a good coach. If you want to weight the NCAA tournament as everything and refer to "average" as "bad" to get to where you want to be on the issue, do what you want. Frankly it doesn't matter. He's our coach whether a few losers here like it or not.
I think he's a pretty decent X' and O's coach, not a very good tourney coach and an average recruiter. I don't like his use of point guards.
Will he win a NC at Purdue? I'm not sure, but if he doesn't bring in a stellar class this year, a FF or NC in the next 3 seems less likely. In 3 years, we'll be approaching the 15 year mark with MP. If he hasn't figured out how to make deep tourney runs by then, I'm not sure when he will.
Okay time to look at this from the bigger picture angle instead of a simple vacuum like you posted here. And I'll break it out in to separate points for easier reading:
- As said earlier, no change is going to be made until the football program is addressed.
- As long as Painter continues to have above average results overall no change is going to be made
- As long as crowds continue to fill the seats no change is going to be made
- Constantly regurgitating the same statements over and over again, from either side, is not going to facilitate a change and is more or less about internet bravado at this point
- People can jump off the ledge all they want when a recruit is missed out on, as long as the results mentioned above then no change is going to be made
Basically, as long as the program isn't in the tank no change is going to be made so how about we just all get behind the team from the top down and end this circle arguing? I mean if opinions haven't changed by now, they never will so what is the point of continually posting them? I know, boilersallthewaynow your forum police siren went off because that can be perceived as me telling people how to post, but seriously this is all just getting old.
OTOH what have most of us to do when we can't talk about football in the fall???
You've got yourself convinced. I believe that. You and the random people you walk up to all over the country and ask them if they think the Purdue basketball coach is average or not.
That is a very good point. Let's see if we just ignore him/her maybe it will go away.
Over the last ten years he is 3rd in the Big Ten in making the tournament according to what I posted earlier so he is upper half in that metric.
Honestly in my book that should count as two losses . Now I'll give him a pass the first 3 year's and I give you one up on that I only count the good the first three years. I will support Matt painter 3 more seasons if he hasn't done anything by then then I'm done. Just a Purdue fan that wants to see more in the tournament. You guys can hate me for that can you. I hope Matt Painter proves me wrong I really do.
I don't know what post you're referring to, because I have that troll on ignore. I suggest you do likewise, friend.
I have never demanded a thing from you or anyone else on here. Never stopped you from saying a thing. Just disagreed with you. Apparently that's not OK with you. Meanwhile you just did what you are acusing me of doing. I will post as I please, including stating when I disagree with someone else. You are welcome to retort as you wish. Never said you or anyone else couldn't.
Regarding your request for direction in life...if you insist...but remember it will be pompous and arrogant just to make you happy.
"How to think": I don't think you can be helped.
"What to say": Does it matter?
"What religion should we practice": I don't care which, but practice it more because it hasn't taken.
"How should we vote": There are no winners on this topic.
"What should I believe in": Believe in yourself enough that my opinion is not so offensive to you.
"What is my favorite color": Duh...Old Gold and Black.
"Does God really exist": I don't know. But that's where faith comes in to play.
I personally do not consider my favorite athletic teams to be anywhere near as important as my work. This is why I am not as concerned about where our basketball program is at present. I agree that the BOD and Pres have want more success and commit more to it to do better. I do think football is below what I consider acceptable but again, I'll survive it.
I have been saying this for a couple years now and everyone tells me to basically shove it, as they go back drinking their kool-aid. As I mentioned earlier we were the second choice for both Haas and Biggie.
Remember you are dealing with a bunch of "Spinmiesters" that are drunk on punch.
You get told to shove it because what you said here is a gigantically stupid statement. Biggie could of gone to MSU if he wanted but no matter how you want to spin it, he picked us over them. So yeah, shove it.
Then you must give painter credit for "landing" Willis and walker?
What? How does being the school of choice come out to be "second Choice"? That makes no sense. Haas and Biggie both said no to their "second choices" Wake & MSU, and chose Purdue - their FIRST CHOICE.
Almost every top pick has several closely competing schools after them. That's a fact, unless they declare very early on where they are going. It is obvious you don't follow the recruiting at other schools at all or you would have seen similar drama at the blue bloods over the past few years as kids switch their choices, and switch again at the last minute.
I don't drink any Kool-Aid. However, I suggest you open your eyes to how college basketball recruiting really functions, and stop being such an morose Eeyore about your school.
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