Werner was bad against the run. I'd take Bentley over all linebackers since the 2003 team.
Elliott v blough is a wash in my book. Similar players with similar limitations
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Werner was bad against the run. I'd take Bentley over all linebackers since the 2003 team.
Elliott v blough is a wash in my book. Similar players with similar limitations
You don't understand how the recruiting process works. If Hazell somehow pulls a winning season out of his backside, he can't just show up at CG, BD, and Warren and expect to start signing players in January. The groundwork for this class needed to be laid 2-3 years ago.
And it would help if the AD was on board with some type of marketing strategy, like IU does with all the TV commercials and billboards.
And Bentley's bad against the pass.
I'll put this another way: if Kawann, Kerrigan, spencer, Neal, and pollard were from Texas, they wouldn't have signed with Purdue.
I know enough about the recruiting process to understand that coaches that win 6 games in 3 years aren't going to sign top 25 classes very often no matter how good of relationships they have built.
You just said it yourself. He has to have a winning season before it even matters.
Elliot was a 5th year senior under a better coordinator.
Skill wise, they are very similar
Bentleys issues were as much scheme as physical.
i didn't say that. I said IF he does have a winning season, he isn't all of a sudden going to waltz into Indy's top programs and start signing up their best players.
Did tom Crean wait for a winning season before he went after the state's top players?
I'd rather have a coverage backer in today's game. Run stuffers are easier to find.
Tillers teams those last 5 years werent as talented as his first 7. Want to guess which set of years depended on Indiana recruited more heavily?
I'm not saying to focus heavily on Indiana. My point was there are 15-20 3 star players in this state that are as good or better than the truckload of 2 stars we are spending a fortune to recruit.
In addition, most of our recent top NFL players are from the state, and they wouldn't have come here if they were from Texas or Florida. Over half of our quality pass rushers over the last 20 years were instate players. Now, we have none.
I would take Tillers last 7 teams in a heartbeat over the "State of Purdue's" product thus far.
So would i.
The state of purdue was stolen from Tressel and idiotic to begin with. He never had the in with Ohio coaches people thought he did and he and his staff havent put a ton of effort into relationships in the midwest.
As for recruiting, Indiana should be a part of it, but with at most 20 P5 level recruits in a state where there are 3 P5 schools, it is going to be a battle to get them. Going to Florida, GA and TX makes sense. Wish we had more presence in Illinois, Ohio and PA.
More to quarterbacking than just physical talent. Give me a guy like Elliott any day over a guy that has an NFL arm but can't hold up under the slightest bit of pressure and has no pocket presence.
I get that. I think Blough is very similar in terms of mental makeup.
Also, elliott didnt come in ready to go. If you recall the early part of that season, he had a lot of bad turnovers that cost games.
Certainly. I attribute that mostly to the fact that he never got much meaningful experience prior to that season. I would think the hardest thing for a QB is to learn the throws you can and can't make in a real game and to his credit it seemed he picked that up in about 1/2 a season. Would have loved to have had him for another season or two. Maybe we wouldn't have had to endure Marve.
Yeah, another season would have been nice. He and Nord seemed to click. It will be interesting to see if he breaks into front office management.
A loooonnnngggg time ago, I was going for a job in the athletic dept in a promotions position. One of the ideas I proposed was to go to places like Gary, the Fort, Indy, Chicago, etc and got to areas where kids are playing pick up hoops or football and start handing out Purdue t-shirts, wristbands, etc. to the youngsters. I believed that this would be a way to build brand awareness and name recognition in some areas where some solid athletes were being developed.
We could have the budget, our BOT chooses to talk the talk, but not walk the walk.
Anyone know if Purdue has any interest in the WL QB? Had impressive numbers to open up the high school season lastnight.
