It shows you what losers they are and what a drag on the university those people are. They need ousted from their positions. And fortunately the students and alumni control that no matter what these people say or do. If nobody goes to those football games these people are gone, period. That is the one card every single student at Purdue holds in their hand. Don't buy anything until these people get the message loud and clear. You either win, and make a valiant effort at such, or nobody is coming back. Image is everything. This is why Stanford, Notre Dame, Michigan, and now Alabama have benefited in a major way academically and financially, while Purdue's arrogant and foolish administration utterly ran the school into the ground by comparison by every yardstick. Purdue is dead last in the Big Ten on sports revenue and there is a reason for that. And it is not all that academically superior either ranking below average in the big ten in virtually all but very few fields, including business, of which it used to be far superior to the others. It is anathema these people who are leeching onto their cushy positions while at the expense of Purdue and the demise of its students. It is time they are run off the campus and that real leadership comes in with plans to optimize the university to its fullest potential, and absolutely nothing less should be tolerable by any stakeholder of Purdue.
Purdue can easily compete with Michigan and anyone else in the Big Ten. Purdue is right between Chigago and Indy. If the school did anything at all to give alumni any resemblance of a reason to watch the football games on Saturday, you better believe they'd be there. The fact is since Purdue's athletic director is worried about diving boards and softball practices, more so than football, which Michigan makes over 150 million per year on, as a result of his utter ignorance of football, Purdue has suffered incredible opportunity cost. Squandered opportunity while every other college in the Big Ten has made enormous strides at the same time we digress. IU, Northwestern, all of them continue to grow their fan bases, and continue to remain competitive. Purdue on the other hand, cannot even put together a solid example of a football field, which is amazing. Or for that matter win a single home Big Ten football game IN THREE SEASONS. When has that ever happened before to any other Big Ten school?
Academically Purdue is suffering also and is becoming a substitute destination. The business school for example dropping like a stone while Alabama is skyrocketing up the academic rankings with nothing more that people staying on campus, and increased applications, as a sole result of football success. Sports is complimentary to academics, which is why University of North Carolina handed out FAKE DEGREES to its athletes, but the university went up in the rankings. I got a little news flash for these people, this matters and it is about time we get people in there who understand that. Run a clean program, but stop this anti-competitive stance. Notre Dame, not many people would give a care to attend the school without that football team. Go ahead and test that theory. Remove Notre Dame football and traditions and see how fast that school falls. The fact that Purdue's athletic director has neglected the largest revenue generating sport in college sports (by far) is simply amazing. If anyone needs fired at Purdue it is this athletic director and those people under his administration, and other officials there who are not pulling their weight and are an anchor on this school's potential.
