Ok, now that it's done, who's hearing what about a hire?

[PaBoiler78]

Any feelers sent to Tom Allen?

he's busy w/ feelers in the psu showers

 

[HUD628]

No way. Shepard has them at 11-1 and in the playoff.

Freeman. And he gets talked about a lot for NFL openings. They could be preparing for him to leave.

 

[bonefish1]

Freeman. And he gets talked about a lot for NFL openings. They could be preparing for him to leave.

my bad. Got him mixed up with Shepherd at Bama.

 

[BNIBoiler]

Coach Prime has been saying for a long time, “I’m not hard to find”.

 

[TC4THREE]

Doesn't matter. What matters is that a doormat program like iu made the commitment. They raised the bar and now Purdue has to meet it. Which means, you better make sure this next hire is as close to a sure thing as you can get and in order to do so, you'll have to commit big $ upfront.
This is not a "prove it" business. It's a "get paid well, and if you win, you'll get paid even more well".

Of course....Purdue could always go out there, hire a coordinator without HC experience for $3M and hope it works out....

It absolutely does matter. We are not in their circumstances.

 

[bonefish1]

It absolutely does matter. We are not in their circumstances.

You're right, we're not in the same circumstance, we actually have some football tradition, an identity, names and players people recognize. iu has none of that, never had and until this year, the only time they sold out a home game was when OSU or Purdue was coming to town.
Are you saying that 8 games into a single season, iu suddenly decides they're committed to football and makes a $72M investment?

 

[TC4THREE]

You're right, we're not in the same circumstance, we actually have some football tradition, an identity, names and players people recognize. iu has none of that, never had and until this year, the only time they sold out a home game was when OSU or Purdue was coming to town.
Are you saying that 8 games into a single season, iu suddenly decides they're committed to football and makes a $72M investment?

Just like we invested more to keep Brohm a couple times after we knew we had a coach capable of winning here. We don't have that right now. Hopefully we find someone but I'm not holding my breath with the Bobinski/Grimes regime. The point is IU did not invest 72 million to bring Cignetti in. They did that to keep him after he had a good first season against an atrocious schedule.

 

[FiveWeight]

The size of the investment at IU was commensurate w/ the data they had 8 games into the season - which showed Cignetti was an outlier in terms of IU’s history. At that point, it wasn’t going out on a limb, it was trying to lock up the best thing they’ve ever had, and Purdue or any other school would do the same.

If Purdue had a season like IU, I am certain you would see a comparably-sized contract aimed at keeping the coach.

 

[galoot]

If anyone wants to start playing the Flightaware game, the Purdue jet landed in West Lafayette at about 11:45PM last night.....

It's a little unusual to hear it over the weekend as the jet is actually based out of the Executive Airport in Chicago, I believe.

 

[mdclaxton]

There is supposed to be an 11 am press conference today. Don't know if it will be announcing the new coach, or just more details about the decision to fire Walters.