Ok, now that it's done, who's hearing what about a hire?
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Freeman. And he gets talked about a lot for NFL openings. They could be preparing for him to leave.
Coach Prime has been saying for a long time, “I’m not hard to find”.
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.
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.
If Purdue had a season like IU, I am certain you would see a comparably-sized contract aimed at keeping the coach.
purdue just lost three players today to the transfer portal.
you don't want to make a hasty decision, and you want to hire a good coach. but the longer you wait, the more players will leave or decommit. and the longer you wait, will make Purdue a lot less attractive to any coach. and the likelihood any coach can actually turn this program around is nil.
think about it. if you are coaching your current team to a conference championship, would you want to leave that team ans take over this one ? additionally, to be successful, a coach is going to have to bring his entire staff and 15+ of his recruits and/or current players. A coach who has not been coaching lately is not going to be able to do that.
Kevin Wilson is NOT a great hire. But he may be the best hire actually interested in the job. I hope you don't get your hopes up too high, and think coaches will just jump at the chance to be the Purdue head coach. and just because you may have money to offer doesn't mean smart coaches want to take it.
my inside source at OSU says the AD is not very happy. Not only did OSU lose to Michigan, but in so doing, they also lost the opportunity to host one of the college play-off games. Yes, they will still be in the play-offs. But hosting a play-off game was expected, and would have been a huge revenue generator.
I know a coach who could do just as well as Walters and would gladly accept $250,000 a year. His current coaching experience is track. but I'm quite sure he could win at least one game.
My hope is that you don't expect the next coach to magically win more than 4 games his first year. and what happens if that's all he does win ? will he be fired and bought out too ? To be successful, you need somebody like Prime time to bring in his own coaches and his own players and his own money and his own followers, and tell 60% of our current players, we don't want you anymore. that doesn't seem to be the way Purdue operates.
you don't want to make a hasty decision, and you want to hire a good coach. but the longer you wait, the more players will leave or decommit. and the longer you wait, will make Purdue a lot less attractive to any coach. and the likelihood any coach can actually turn this program around is nil.
think about it. if you are coaching your current team to a conference championship, would you want to leave that team ans take over this one ? additionally, to be successful, a coach is going to have to bring his entire staff and 15+ of his recruits and/or current players. A coach who has not been coaching lately is not going to be able to do that.
Kevin Wilson is NOT a great hire. But he may be the best hire actually interested in the job. I hope you don't get your hopes up too high, and think coaches will just jump at the chance to be the Purdue head coach. and just because you may have money to offer doesn't mean smart coaches want to take it.
my inside source at OSU says the AD is not very happy. Not only did OSU lose to Michigan, but in so doing, they also lost the opportunity to host one of the college play-off games. Yes, they will still be in the play-offs. But hosting a play-off game was expected, and would have been a huge revenue generator.
I know a coach who could do just as well as Walters and would gladly accept $250,000 a year. His current coaching experience is track. but I'm quite sure he could win at least one game.
My hope is that you don't expect the next coach to magically win more than 4 games his first year. and what happens if that's all he does win ? will he be fired and bought out too ? To be successful, you need somebody like Prime time to bring in his own coaches and his own players and his own money and his own followers, and tell 60% of our current players, we don't want you anymore. that doesn't seem to be the way Purdue operates.
This is huge, and is exactly what Coach Cig did. He flipped the IU roster in a big hurry. Having Coach Bostad stay as IU's O line coach was really helpful in that respect; Cig had someone left in-house to give him an honest assessment of which players needed to go.
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