Names to consider for our next football coach?
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The same reason Brohm did well at Purdue.
Purdue is not cursed and it's not at some mythical disadvantage.
Yeh, we're not OSU, PSU or UM, but NIL and the portal have leveled the playing field and if you get creative, you can compete with those programs.
The expectations at Purdue should be similar to Iowa and Wis.
I actually think the expectations at Minn are pretty low. Their FB program doesn't really have an indentity. At least people still associate Purdue with QBs and offense (at least, up until recently).
Agree with this. You can pull down a top 25 salary here and expectations are far more reasonable than most jobs.
Just asking because the suggestions you get on this are largely due to how the person views the job.
Well, that’ll make for an easy decision on whether to re-up $500+ in season tix - plus spend 6 beautiful fall Saturdays (since we’re not smart enough to schedule 7 home games like every other BT team) in disappointment…
He could not have said that in a serious way. There's no way that has ever happened in the modern era. You can stay but you must fire literally every other coach on your staff and start from scratch? No way.
sorry, if we're talking about expectations, yes I agree. I was coming from the angle of being a middling program similar to Purdue.
Huge difference in buyouts there. $9 mil per for 7 years is a lot different than $9mil total over 3!
I can’t believe we would bring Walters back for anything short of him having blackmail over the entire athletic department. Somebody needs to shake some sense into them…and soon.
We’re going to have to offer 2-3 year contracts to get AVERAGE assistant coaches to jump on this sinking ship.
And their agents will want top dollar, this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard from Purdue
The 2023 purdue assistant pool was 5.5m (would have been 4.6 under brohm) and up from 3.64 in 2022. Indiana was 5.86 this year. We still have to pay harrells $1m salary next year but if they fire Walters he only gets $250k. Are we just going to continue to throw good money to save bad money. Aren’t we better off just paying $8.5m (took off Harrell savings) over 3 years.
No! Are you crazy?
We are only $20million in NIL and a team full of players willing to ignore the coaches (Walters) and coach themselves to 6-6 next year!
I think Purdue has a number of advantages over Minny in terms of location, fan support, program reputation (there's a lot to unpack with that one), etc. Plus, you have Tim Walz up there, so that doesn't help either.
For the 10,000th time...MONEY IS NOT A PROBLEM! Every B10 team is going to see a massive influx of cash with the new TV deal and being part of the 2 last power conferences.
As fans, our philosophy should be "Pay whatever it takes to build a winner".
It’s the shortsighted approach of BoBo and company that they don’t see any way that Purdue could be left behind by the coming super conference structure. As we move closer to 2030 with the next round of tv contracts being negotiated expect there to be scrutiny from the all parties on which teams add value, serve as useful opponents for the big names, and those who are free riders. Purdue football has flirted with being a useful other a few times in the past 40 years (1997-2004; portions of 2017-22). However we are firmly in the free rider category now where we bring little to no value to the tv deal in football. Don’t expect that the brand of “but we started the B1G” is enough unless we’re winning and competitive. So invest now or be left behind in a few years, I’m not even sure the Big 12 would want us right now.
Understood and agree. Bobinski already has said it’s not about the money and I believe it. My point was just saying it’s not a good argument so let’s not make money a factor. We 1,5 years of harrells contact and surely we have no problem doing the same for a good assistant coach.
Also know as the gridiron - where the field general attempts to lead an all-out assault (sometimes with bombs avoiding blitzes) to attack the opponent and march toward their goal.
On the court - you try to make a "basket"......look, you made a basket, a nice basket, and you get two points, sometimes three!
If it’s not about the money Walters wouldn’t still be coaching …. Period.
I agree Hud. For the past couple weeks I've been trying to recall a situation where a coach was retained but his entire staff was fired...... So when does a head coach get a mulligan for hiring the wrong staff????
And if they’re all given 2-3 year contracts, that probably makes it more expensive to fire Walters a year from now than after this season.
Coach Prime from Colorado. Pay whatever it takes. We need to turn this train wreck around.
Zero chance that happens even in the unlikely event we could outbid other desperate schools.
I would sell the idea that the liberal states go to Church the least, and the Midwest is having an Awakening, with the addition of Christian Big Ten Coaches. And Deion will be a welcomed addition to help be a light to others.
Even though you may not know what exactly is in one’s heart, I know his story as I have been a fan of his since he was a freshman at Florida St. Several years ago he was in a depressed state. He drove his car off of a cliff. He survived the crash with minor injuries. After that he gave his life to Jesus Christ and became a Born Again Christian.
Also, Coach Prime has been getting a lot of flack from people that do not like him leading prayer for the team in the locker room and the field.
By retaining Walters, do you think Purdue will sell more, less or the same number of season tix next year? Do you think they'll get more, less or the same $ into the collective for NIL?
I'm actually starting to believe that with Bobo's contract up next year, that he retires and this hire becomes someone elses problem.
Ouch. Says a lot especially considering that's the level and type of coach (Mid Major, offensive minded) we'd probably be going after.
Could be 1000% wrong but I’d imagine we lose 10-15k in current season ticket sales. Some probably offset by a few newbies, some offset by cheap package sales to opposing fans. Call it 12k in attendance we fall short in next year. That’s 84k unsold seats at say an average of $50 a pop. That’s $4.2million just in tickets. Tickets that don’t get an associated donation, concessions or parking fee. Call that another $2-3mil in lost revenue.
At that point the lost revenue pays for Walters buyout and a decent increase to the next coach.
Doesn’t take a business master to know that keeping Walters hurts the wallet next year.
But agree…they want a new AD and to have the new one hire the coach just like they did with Mbob. Making a “business” decision here but not really protecting the business…just some guys arbitrary timeline to leave.
