it would appear there are more than just one skeptical fan here. But there are many of you that love to diss and name call others who disagree with you. Some of your calling is expected. I've posted on other boards and met similar juvenile comments.. Did you ever think it might be your comments that turn people off ?? Take a look at your IU taunt thread. it's embarrassing to adults over 21. Did it ever occur to you that your happiness and acceptance of 4 wins per year might offend real football players? I know I'm offended at people who believe a 6-6 season is great. You accept mediocrity and that's what you got. There are more two star recruits in this class than the previous six classes. and you say, you don't care about rankings. but if they were 4/5 star recruits, you'd brag about them to the world. I doubt any recruit was turned off by my posts. and it's not like I told White or Potts to sign with Cincy.
Just because a person disagrees with your viewpoint does not give you the right to personally attack them.
I gave Brohm a chance. His first job was to build a recruiting class. He was given 16 recruits by Hazell , and 1 recruit by Parker. Brohm replaced 12 of Hazell's recruits with players he was familiar with. And during the last week, he found himself reaching for players to fill his roster much like Hazell did. This class despite Brohm's efforts was ranked as the worst recruiting class in the Big ten. And it would have ranked lower if we didn't have 24 recruits. The class is heavy on wide receivers and defensive backs and not much else.
I praise Brohm for going after some elite players, but the fact is, he wasn't able to close the deal on any of them. I also praise Brohm for going after juco players to fill holes. However, since a lot of brohm's recruits are projects, Purdue will once again have a depth problem next season as the majority of those recruits will be redshirted.
The facts are Brohm recruited 19 of the players of this class. Given a year. would he have been able to do a better job? or would he still recruit the type of players he recruited at WKU ? I was disappointed in his efforts in the past few days - if you're are going to reach and go after projects, that none of those projects were from Indiana. It appears the two recruits from Carmel were token Indiana representation.
I'm going to give Brohm a C minus as a rating for his first job . yes, there were factors, yes he had minimal time, but in looking at the bottom line objectively and taking away the factors, and just looking at the product, it's hard to rank this class any higher. it is dead last in the BIG 10.
Brohm's next chance is the Spring game and 2018 recruiting, and summer camp. To be successful, he should have 15 recruits before the season starts. To be successful, he needs to attract elite players to his Summer camp. and to be successful he needs to know his 2 deep depth chart before fall practice. And yes, i'll provide my opinion.
Brohm's next chance is on the field. it's not an easy schedule. I originally said upon his hiring there were 6 winnable games. I f he wins 6 games, I'll give him props. if he only wins 3-4 , I'll complain.
and why? because I expect results. We're paying Brohm $1 million more than Hazell, and we're paying Hazell's buyout. I said this exact same thing when we hired Hazell, if our goal is only to win 2-3 games, we might have just kept the previous coach and saved the salary. if we finish in last, even as much as I hated Hazell, we should have just kept him and saved the $4 million.
I still can't believe you posters have patience and are willing to accept a 4-5 win season. That' the reason Hope was fired. Winning 4-5 games should not be accepted or tolerated. and you'll be ecstatic if we ever win 6.
I gave Brohm a chance. But I learned my lesson with all the other bad coaches Purdue has had. I'm not just going to sit back and say he needs 3-4 years to build a winner.
And when I judge his recruiting success, I'm not going to judge it against the previous Boiler teams. Unfortunately, we don't get that gimme win of playing ourselves like the rest of the league does. I'm going to judge his recruiting success against his peers and other BIG 10 teams. So being objective and looking at Purdue's recruiting class, and just looking at the class without any other factors, how does the end result compare? and what's the best we can ever hope for? and ask yourself, if Purdue is competitive in every other sport, why are we so terrible at football?