Eh, it’s the first two star recruit and you don’t know that he won’t be bumped up.
Recruiting is also cash based to an extent. Give any athletic department a couple million extra bucks and they can improve the class. Even your Hoosiers.
The schedule is something Purdue does to itself. No coach, be it brohm, Walters or the next guy can be held responsible for the AD failing to recognize that with the new big ten, you could have ditched Oregon state and/or ND and still had a tougher schedule than a lot of Joe tillers schedule. A team that goes 4-8 this coming year wouldn’t likely be 6-6 in 1998.
You can’t look at a class with 8 guys rated 5.6 or higher and tell that the influx of legalized payoffs may have something to do with that?
Point being, I agree in retrospect with those who say Walters needs to show massive improvement from some of what we saw last year. If Purdue does go 4-8, his seat should be hot next year regardless, but it better be a 4-8 where losses to schools other than ND, Penn state, Ohio state and Oregon are much closer and the entire feel of the team is much more solidified. Harrell is already on the hot seat to me. I was wrong and others who pointed this out (yes you
@pboiler18 ) were right.
But all the things you are talking about.. recruiting difficulties at Purdue on a relative basis and delusional scheduling, are going to be big big problems the day Walters is terminated or quits. Who do you think is coming here to have a meager war chest while also facing schedules made by people who think Purdue is Georgia?