In my 40 years as a Purdue fan, this is the worst football I've ever seen.
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I don't know Satterfield seems to be doing pretty well at Louisville. Plus they are on their what 3rd or 4th string qb.
Hazell could have never won by 24 points against a big ten doormat....never. He did once beat ISU by 24, that was his best margin of victory if my quick research is correct.
Hazell also couldn’t recruit players like Rondale Moore, Karlaftis, David Bell, etc. Brohm deserves a ton of credit for what he’s doing at Purdue.
Wisconsin in Danny Hope's last year.
There were teams in the Hope years that would just give up. I dont think the team gave up on Saturday.
for me was the N. Ill. game at home in beautiful weather no less. They had that QB Jordan(?) and they just did anything they wanted to do. They were a good MAC team but I was praying they wouldn't go over 60 on us. The opener vs Cincy was bad too.
The Cincy game is the one that sticks out to me. I think we might have even been favored in that game?? 2016 50-7 loss to Maryland was also quite fugly. Outgained by something like 300 yards. It seemed like every Wisconsin game they could have named the score but let up midway through the 3rd quarter.
One of worse for me was 1990 season vs OSU at home. My first game in person. Supposed big crowd. By the 3rd quarter you could sit wherever you wanted. Some idiot had OSU as the homecoming game. 42-2 and could of been easily 60-2. This was in Akers 4th and last year ( thank God). Purdue looked like A D2 team physically next to OSU. I could easily name 50 or more games (at least half of Akers and Hazel coached games) that were worse. Many of us could. So don’t sit there and say this is the worst Purdue football in 40 years. Facts don’t back it up. Not even close.
Cincy is doing well this year under Fickell, who didn't impress me when he was briefly handed the reins at osu.
Don’t have time. Just gave u an example of worse football so has everyone else. And the big difference with most of these other instances there was no hope for the future. There now is plenty of hope for the future. By the way you’ve either not been a Boilermaker fan for 40 years , or you have a very bad memory and need to have that checked out. This is nowhere near the worst Purdue football in that time frame.
Both are 1& 2 on my list. Brohm is noway near any on the top 10 list. Still patient with the coaches.
Id put Hazell and Akers as easily the two worst i have seen. Hazell may be the worst big conference coach since Venturi at Northwestern.
I blame Purdue's former AD for a big part of Hazell's problems. He allowed Haze to coach in the bowl game, thus causing recruiting to absolutely suck....you know, kinda' like the Brohm fans are wanting to say about his first recruiting season...that he didn't have a full recruiting season to get great players.
Against Wisconsin, Hope’s teams would give up before getting off the bus. I can remember Nord calling backwards passes, just so we could get the throws off.
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Hazell was his own worst enemy. He didn’t know how to recruit at a place like purdue
Ironically that first class was his best, at least from an average star/ranking level(2.74). The average star rating reached a ridiculously low 2.17 in his last class - worst of all P5 programs(the year before the average only beat one P5 program/class).
Hazel's teams basically beat themselves in alot of games. Bonehead penalties, fumbles, etc etc. Good example was his first game at Cincinnati. That was typical of how Purdue played with him as coach
This is a bit revisionist. Actually, Hazell's teams weren't penalized that much. They just sucked. Most of them finished in the top 1/3rd of least penalized teams.
You're thinking of Danny Hope's major bugaboo....lack of on field player discipline. Those teams were VERY HEAVILY penalized.
Hope's teams had a problem with discipline in general. That's what got him the door more than anything. Had that not been the case he would have had at least another year or two.
Purdue has been better than Louisville one season out of the last 10. It is not a better job than Louisville.
no, it's a HELLUVA lot better job.
It's not about the past, it's about the future. AND, the current state of the program.
Purdue is a MUCH better place.
UofL has been an absolute DUMPSTER fire, as was documented here 10-11 months ago.
Brohm would have LEAPED at UofL had that not been the case.
Abu, the game that stands out in my mind, and that falls within your 40-year time frame, is the 1988 game against I.U. It was in West Lafayette; final score IU 52, Purdue 7. I was there last week and in 1988, and 1988 was worse.
That 1988 Akers team scored 124 points in the entire season.
That 1988 Akers team scored 124 points in the entire season.
Exactly. That 12 year period before Tiller was possibly the worse era in Purdue football. That’s why guys in here need to admit when they are proven wrong. I understand being emotional, but when you are proven wrong by facts. Admit you’re wrong and move on.
I was too young to drink during the Akers years and attended every game. Imagine watching that shit sober.
Best part was during that 12 year period Purdue was only on TV at most a couple times a year. Only against Notre Dame and against one of the better Big Ten teams. That was back when there were only a few games on TV. Probably a good thing. You had to listen to games on the radio if you weren’t there. My kids still don’t understand how I can listen to a game on the radio when we are traveling. I told them that’s how it was in the 80s and 90s.
I remember not being able to get the away games back then. Blessing in disguise. I dont think i can undo the damage to my eyes and liver the Hazell years caused.
LOL. Thank the Lord I turned 21 in '87. The only interesting part was going to the stands to throw marshmellows at each other and some toilet paper rolls too. Going to early vintage breakfast clubs and sometimes not making it to games due to being passed out before kick-offs. Those were some strange daze.
Akers was just plain AWFUL.
Ya it seems as tho there is some revisionist history in the OP’s title. It’s like the Principle in Florida just fired, because he said they wouldn’t teach that the Holocaust was real and happened. He said because there could be some that don’t believe it happened. It’s not about believing, because it happened , which is fact. Not comparing the Holocaust to Purdue ,or sports in general. Just that people as time goes on seem to want to change history. There is no believe , or don’t believe. Purdue sucked much worse at times over the last 40 years than what we saw on Saturday. FACT !! Go look it up.
and the "Haze" years were 1-2 seasons too long as well. Morgan should have seen it thru the recruits and known it was too tough a hill to climb. I stopped going to Purdue football after the 2nd season of "Haze" and returned when "Brohm" was hired. Only a game a year due to kids in their own college athletics restrict me from seeing more. In 2-3 years, I'll be watching a lot more of Purdue football live if they are worth watching. A rough patch this year, expect more competitive teams in the future.
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On the money post.
You think THIS topic exemplifies TD's " clouded judgement " ??
Lord have mercy. We could recommend another site where that " judgement " isn't just "clouded".....it's pitch black.
That 52-7 game was my first Purdue experience. The basketball team was bad that year too. I didn't freak out then and I'm not freaking out now!
The administration wasnt going to give Morgan a third shot at replacing Tiller. They had to find Bobinski before they could address Hazell.
And that my friends was one of the best decisions made by the Purdue administration Over the last 40 years.
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