Joe Tiller found out about the love of the Boiler family in WL and would have remained forever if not for fighting an unnecessary $$$ battle with an infamous tightwad. Brohm is finding out about that love without having to fight the $$$ fight.
Tiller’s health was bad, he couldn’t keep coaching. Didn’t you read any of the articles last year when he passed away?
No he was not. Money was never an issue, he was routinely courted by larger programs including Notre Dame. Your tight wad hired him and while he was AD for 23 years did not lose a single head coach in MBB and Football to another team despite there being aggressive poaching. There was pressure to run Tiller out due to unrealistic expectations on the program. Some believed he was phoning it in with regards to recruiting towards the end and perhaps that was his health that contributed to that. But this was never about the money. In fact, MB had bigger fish on his wish list for successors and backed down to hire DH out of respect for JT since they were going to transition together.
Is that you, Morgue? How’s it going?
You think Morgue was letting Brohm fly to Louisville on a recruiting trip?
Inflection point, not breaking point. That marked a missed opportunity and a change in the program and how tiller did things.
Not really that incredible, given the truckloads of TV money that got dumped on his doorstep every year. Every B1G school has nice facilities.
I have twin 2 year olds. When they are a little older, i will bring them. For now, i stick close to home (cleveland)
You mentioned that Tillers efforts and landing prize recruits was “laborious and never materialized”. I agree with that, but Morgues penny pinching ways had a lot to do with that. That’s what I was referring to.
Agree to disagree. His Mackey and Ross Ade projects were late and/or lacking, (RA’s STILL not done for Pete’s sake) and the Football Performance Center was way late as well.
you've transitioned from capital improvements to personnel retention.
Read the first part of my last post. I don’t like what Morgue did with regards to capital improvements OR personnel.
LoL!!!! Now thats funny!!!!! It sure as hell was about money.....main reason he lost most of his assistant coaches....they all left for more money. I think it was down to just Spack left at the end....... He stayed because he was a Purdue guy!
I have a slightly different view point. I think MB did what he could with the budget Cordova gave him. There is little question in my mind that he was given marching orders to cut costs. Not his choice, but as a member of the Purdue administration, he was bound to support his boss. His loyalty was to the Purdue administration, and not to the fan base.
Going to respectfully disagree. He spent millions and millions of dollars, but he spent them on Olympics sports instead of investing properly in the profit centers.
Completely agree with this. I mean yeah we got a nice pool, but at the cost of our main revenue sports.
Don’t have time for that thesis at the moment, but read thru this thread again and that will give you a good start.
