Purdue Alumnus: Football Financials

[BoilerBonz]

Received my Nov/Dec issue of the Purdue Alumnus yesterday. The cover shows a cluster of gold-helmeted Purdue football players preparing to take the field for a home game, with the headline, "BIG BUSINESS," referring to a 6-page article inside titled "Football Financials," by William Meiners. The teaser line on the index page is, "Even in seasons that yield more losses than wins, the business of Purdue football is a decidedly serious one."

The first 2, of the 6 pages devoted to the article, are a panoramic photo of Hazell with his back to the camera, facing the team, prior to them taking the field, along with the title of the article and a subtitle reading, "How to keep a competitive pace in the Big Ten while maintaining a proper perspective."

The article, which makes up less than half of the remaining 4 pages then repeats the tired old saw about how Morgan Burke's law and business background provide him with the "skills" to manage the turnaround of the program, without giving into the temptations to "embrace a spend to win philosophy" or sacrifice academic integrity. There's nothing, of course, about how Burke's "skills" allowed the football program to reach these new lows through under investing in football during the mid 2000s, when the right investments in facilities and coaches could have maintained Tiller's momentum. The whole article is absolute pure drivel! And there's, of course, nothing about how it will now take X-fold more to pump out and turn around the sinking ship, than it would have cost to just properly maintain it in the first place! And all this under the title of "Football Financials"!

So, here's a question, what would be a truly accurate subtitle for this Burke propaganda piece?

I'm thinking something like: "How to pi$$ away a decade of hard-won momentum in football through tightfisted, penny pinching, financial mismanagement."

 

[loftygoal]

Received my Nov/Dec issue of the Purdue Alumnus yesterday. The cover shows a cluster of gold-helmeted Purdue football players preparing to take the field for a home game, with the headline, "BIG BUSINESS," referring to a 6-page article inside titled "Football Financials," by William Meiners. The teaser line on the index page is, "Even in seasons that yield more losses than wins, the business of Purdue football is a decidedly serious one."

The first 2, of the 6 pages devoted to the article, are a panoramic photo of Hazell with his back to the camera, facing the team, prior to them taking the field, along with the title of the article and a subtitle reading, "How to keep a competitive pace in the Big Ten while maintaining a proper perspective."

The article, which makes up less than half of the remaining 4 pages then repeats the tired old saw about how Morgan Burke's law and business background provide him with the "skills" to manage the turnaround of the program, without giving into the temptations to "embrace a spend to win philosophy" or sacrifice academic integrity. There's nothing, of course, about how Burke's "skills" allowed the football program to reach these new lows through under investing in football during the mid 2000s, when the right investments in facilities and coaches could have maintained Tiller's momentum. The whole article is absolute pure drivel! And there's, of course, nothing about how it will now take X-fold more to pump out and turn around the sinking ship, than it would have cost to just properly maintain it in the first place! And all this under the title of "Football Financials"!

So, here's a question, what would be a truly accurate subtitle for this Burke propaganda piece?

I'm thinking something like: "How to pi$$ away a decade of hard-won momentum in football through tightfisted, penny pinching, financial mismanagement."

I'm wondering what the purpose of this article is?

 

[Boilers1975]

Does Nancy Cross write for the Alumnus now ?

 

[Bigohh]

I'm wondering what the purpose of this article is?

If you were in charge of such a p poor athletic department, wouldn't you try to deflect the attention in a different direction. Quiet frankly, it looks like Mitch and the BOT has abandoned Purdue athletics. It will be interesting to see how the story unfolds after the end of the season and the 3rd in a row defeat by IU. If the same old bs is spouted I think we all should rise up and bombard Mitch, the BOT, and anyone else with a mass of letter writing and public criticism.

 

[loftygoal]

If you were in charge of such a p poor athletic department, wouldn't you try to deflect the attention in a different direction. Quiet frankly, it looks like Mitch and the BOT has abandoned Purdue athletics. It will be interesting to see how the story unfolds after the end of the season and the 3rd in a row defeat by IU. If the same old bs is spouted I think we all should rise up and bombard Mitch, the BOT, and anyone else with a mass of letter writing and public criticism.

But if you're trying to deflect the criticism, why would you put the football team on the cover? It's a disaster. I really don't get what they are trying to accomplish with this story. College football is big business? Are you kidding me? Everybody has known this for 25 years. Are we just coming to this realization? And if it is a big business when are we going to recognize that we need to get somebody that recognizes that running a business is more than counting paper clips? We need to get somebody that has successfully developed and grown an enterprise. I don't understand their goal in running this story.

 

[New Pal Boiler]

Received my Nov/Dec issue of the Purdue Alumnus yesterday. The cover shows a cluster of gold-helmeted Purdue football players preparing to take the field for a home game, with the headline, "BIG BUSINESS," referring to a 6-page article inside titled "Football Financials," by William Meiners. The teaser line on the index page is, "Even in seasons that yield more losses than wins, the business of Purdue football is a decidedly serious one."

The first 2, of the 6 pages devoted to the article, are a panoramic photo of Hazell with his back to the camera, facing the team, prior to them taking the field, along with the title of the article and a subtitle reading, "How to keep a competitive pace in the Big Ten while maintaining a proper perspective."

The article, which makes up less than half of the remaining 4 pages then repeats the tired old saw about how Morgan Burke's law and business background provide him with the "skills" to manage the turnaround of the program, without giving into the temptations to "embrace a spend to win philosophy" or sacrifice academic integrity. There's nothing, of course, about how Burke's "skills" allowed the football program to reach these new lows through under investing in football during the mid 2000s, when the right investments in facilities and coaches could have maintained Tiller's momentum. The whole article is absolute pure drivel! And there's, of course, nothing about how it will now take X-fold more to pump out and turn around the sinking ship, than it would have cost to just properly maintain it in the first place! And all this under the title of "Football Financials"!

So, here's a question, what would be a truly accurate subtitle for this Burke propaganda piece?

I'm thinking something like: "How to pi$$ away a decade of hard-won momentum in football through tightfisted, penny pinching, financial mismanagement."

Does the article refer to a "Premier Daniels", or a "Comrade Burke"?

 

[Redhotfill]

The article, which makes up less than half of the remaining 4 pages then repeats the tired old saw about how Morgan Burke's law and business background provide him with the "skills" to manage the turnaround of the program, without giving into the temptations to "embrace a spend to win philosophy" or sacrifice academic integrity. There's nothing, of course, about how Burke's "skills" allowed the football program to reach these new lows ... "!

So, here's a question, what would be a truly accurate subtitle for this Burke propaganda piece?

I'm thinking something like: "How to pi$$ away a decade of hard-won momentum in football through tightfisted, penny pinching, financial mismanagement."

WTF! How the F&@(! does anyone negotiate the gift of a contract with a LAW & Business background? I can see MB being one of those law school washouts though. As for business didn't the steel company he last worked at go BANKRUPT?

 

[Redhotfill]

Does the article refer to a "Premier Daniels", or a "Comrade Burke"?

Or COMMISSAR perhaps?

 

[Redhotfill]

But if you're trying to deflect the criticism, why would you put the football team on the cover? It's a disaster. I really don't get what they are trying to accomplish with this story. College football is big business? Are you kidding me? Everybody has known this for 25 years. Are we just coming to this realization? And if it is a big business when are we going to recognize that we need to get somebody that recognizes that running a business is more than counting paper clips? We need to get somebody that has successfully developed and grown an enterprise. I don't understand their goal in running this story.

You put them on the cover just like our national media runs BS stories about false flag operations. If your going to lie you have to go BIG!

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For the 1951 anti-communist propaganda film, see The Big Lie. For the 9/11 conspiracy book, see 9/11: The Big Lie.

A big lie (German: Große Lüge) is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." Hitler asserted the technique was used by Jews to unfairly blame Germany's loss in World War I on German Army officer Erich Ludendorff.

 

[BoilerBulldog]

But if you're trying to deflect the criticism, why would you put the football team on the cover? It's a disaster. I really don't get what they are trying to accomplish with this story. College football is big business? Are you kidding me? Everybody has known this for 25 years. Are we just coming to this realization? And if it is a big business when are we going to recognize that we need to get somebody that recognizes that running a business is more than counting paper clips? We need to get somebody that has successfully developed and grown an enterprise. I don't understand their goal in running this story.

I assume it's related to the facility upgrades and priming the alumni to open up their wallets?

 

[loftygoal]

I assume it's related to the facility upgrades and priming the alumni to open up their wallets?

Well good luck with that. Everybody I know is so disgusted it'd take a crowbar to pry them open.

 

[Bluto71]

Received my Nov/Dec issue of the Purdue Alumnus yesterday. The cover shows a cluster of gold-helmeted Purdue football players preparing to take the field for a home game, with the headline, "BIG BUSINESS," referring to a 6-page article inside titled "Football Financials," by William Meiners. The teaser line on the index page is, "Even in seasons that yield more losses than wins, the business of Purdue football is a decidedly serious one."

The first 2, of the 6 pages devoted to the article, are a panoramic photo of Hazell with his back to the camera, facing the team, prior to them taking the field, along with the title of the article and a subtitle reading, "How to keep a competitive pace in the Big Ten while maintaining a proper perspective."

The article, which makes up less than half of the remaining 4 pages then repeats the tired old saw about how Morgan Burke's law and business background provide him with the "skills" to manage the turnaround of the program, without giving into the temptations to "embrace a spend to win philosophy" or sacrifice academic integrity. There's nothing, of course, about how Burke's "skills" allowed the football program to reach these new lows through under investing in football during the mid 2000s, when the right investments in facilities and coaches could have maintained Tiller's momentum. The whole article is absolute pure drivel! And there's, of course, nothing about how it will now take X-fold more to pump out and turn around the sinking ship, than it would have cost to just properly maintain it in the first place! And all this under the title of "Football Financials"!

So, here's a question, what would be a truly accurate subtitle for this Burke propaganda piece?

I'm thinking something like: "How to pi$$ away a decade of hard-won momentum in football through tightfisted, penny pinching, financial mismanagement."

I suggest "A Confederacy of Dunces."

I also expect the Alumni Association to get a lot of "feedback" suggesting they not carry water for a failed football program.

 

[BoilerStutz]

This whole Purdue athletics mess is a Harvard Business School case study just waiting to be written. Root cause is organizational arrogance driven by leadership arrogance. I would title it Arrogance: The Fall of Purdue Athletics

 

[loftygoal]

This whole Purdue athletics mess is a Harvard Business School case study just waiting to be written. Root cause is organizational arrogance driven by leadership arrogance. I would title it Arrogance: The Fall of Purdue Athletics

In 2012 Burke fired Hope for underperformance after giving him a couple of years to right the ship. Despite having a better record and going to a bowl in 2012, that team wasn't very good and it showed in the bowl massacre. The big difference between 2012 and 2015 is financial - Haz's enormous buyout contract and the big numbers to hire a quality coaching staff. Furthermore, in 2012 our inexperience in hiring a new coach in over a decade was exposed. The environment in hiring a coach had changed and we were not prepared for it.
At least in 2012, Burke displayed a lack of tolerance for mediocre performance. After making the pronouncement that we would not enter the arms race, we jumped in anyway and fumbled the ball. If we don't get it done this year, I'm convinced it will be due to the financials and the decision will be made way above Burke. I also think that you can add a lack of confidence in hiring anybody better than Haz and all of the competition with schools already looking for coaches.

 

[timster]

Pure Purdue - deflect, spin, and insulate

Burkes law degree is from John Marshall in Chicago - degrees blow into Windows if you drive by there

Furthermore, if he is so astute and savvy; why the "large" contract and buyout

This article should have compared Purdue to other Universities football programs in +/- Return on Investment

The Academic focus drivel needs to end as Purdue is not a Harvard or Yale w a BIG p5 Athletic program

Excuses

 

[Frankie611]

I starting reading this magazine on the way down yesterday. Threw it away when I got home last night because I was tired of seeing anything Purdue football.
I also found it interesting that I received two letters from the school last week asking for money. One was for the school based on a donation I gave to help establish a scholarship for a retiring professor. This letter had suggested donation levels of $600, $1200, and $1800.
The other letter was for the athletic department based on JPC. Everything was identical except for the fund the money was allocated to and the suggested giving amounts. This letter had amounts of $100, $200, and $300.
I've been accused of reading too much into small benign situations and I admit that I allow my mind to extrapolate things. But to me this is very telling of how the university views athletics. I am supposed to cough up $1000 or more out of the blue for whatever ridiculous fundraiser they have going on. But for athletics they are ok with my pocket lint. I think the football program is going to struggle for years to come and as long as the BTN checks show up, the BOT won't care.

 

[pu1985]

I starting reading this magazine on the way down yesterday. Threw it away when I got home last night because I was tired of seeing anything Purdue football.
I also found it interesting that I received two letters from the school last week asking for money. One was for the school based on a donation I gave to help establish a scholarship for a retiring professor. This letter had suggested donation levels of $600, $1200, and $1800.
The other letter was for the athletic department based on JPC. Everything was identical except for the fund the money was allocated to and the suggested giving amounts. This letter had amounts of $100, $200, and $300.
I've been accused of reading too much into small benign situations and I admit that I allow my mind to extrapolate things. But to me this is very telling of how the university views athletics. I am supposed to cough up $1000 or more out of the blue for whatever ridiculous fundraiser they have going on. But for athletics they are ok with my pocket lint. I think the football program is going to struggle for years to come and as long as the BTN checks show up, the BOT won't care.

About the two letters asking for money: discard them in the circular file.
Sooner or later they will get the message.

 

[Foolmeoncefan]

Received my Nov/Dec issue of the Purdue Alumnus yesterday. The cover shows a cluster of gold-helmeted Purdue football players preparing to take the field for a home game, with the headline, "BIG BUSINESS," referring to a 6-page article inside titled "Football Financials," by William Meiners. The teaser line on the index page is, "Even in seasons that yield more losses than wins, the business of Purdue football is a decidedly serious one."

The first 2, of the 6 pages devoted to the article, are a panoramic photo of Hazell with his back to the camera, facing the team, prior to them taking the field, along with the title of the article and a subtitle reading, "How to keep a competitive pace in the Big Ten while maintaining a proper perspective."

The article, which makes up less than half of the remaining 4 pages then repeats the tired old saw about how Morgan Burke's law and business background provide him with the "skills" to manage the turnaround of the program, without giving into the temptations to "embrace a spend to win philosophy" or sacrifice academic integrity. There's nothing, of course, about how Burke's "skills" allowed the football program to reach these new lows through under investing in football during the mid 2000s, when the right investments in facilities and coaches could have maintained Tiller's momentum. The whole article is absolute pure drivel! And there's, of course, nothing about how it will now take X-fold more to pump out and turn around the sinking ship, than it would have cost to just properly maintain it in the first place! And all this under the title of "Football Financials"!

So, here's a question, what would be a truly accurate subtitle for this Burke propaganda piece?

I'm thinking something like: "How to pi$$ away a decade of hard-won momentum in football through tightfisted, penny pinching, financial mismanagement."

Oh I couldn't agree more. The program was ready to be molded right after Brees left. Tiller got cheep shilling stomped by Burke who killed all that momentum that got rolling. Burke just tanked the stadium revitalization. No lights, no upper deck, and some strange upside down triangle eye soar on the home side that makes me cringe when I watch Purdue games on TV. Purdue is badly in need of another stadium renovation now before the other one got completed. The concession stand is worse than high schools. Can we at least get that fixed Burke? Commercialize it if nothing else. One would think at the time in 2000 priority would have properly been given to the football stadium to put it on par visually with any other big ten team to include a much more modern looking big screen and completely redone south end zone. We are still having that conversation when schools like Ohio State and Michigan are having to add seating capacity along with MSU, Penn State, while Minnesota manages to build an entire new football stadium and football complex during the same time. We are playing as bad as a team moving up from D1AA subdivision to D1. It really is neglect on Burke's part who has no established vision of where Purdue football should be. If he did have that vision things would have been done long ago, especially during the Tiller tenure. Instead Burke rode that out and went opposite that. He decides to take that money and spend it on non-revenue sports, A DECIDEDLY bad move on his part. Football and basketball are where the money needs spent, with football first of all. Once that is fixed he can worry about softball to his hearts content.