At IU, success is never seen as good enough and coaches are sent out of town tarred and feathered every three years because they weren’t in the Final Four. In the last 20 years, that’s brought them pretty much zero success.
Firing Painter is almost guaranteed to make Purdue worse. There are few coaches out there better than him. As long as he keeps getting to the second weekend, and four times in five tries is excellent, he will have his breakthrough. Folks used to say he had a Sweet 16 ceiling and that was proved wrong.
Firing Painter is almost guaranteed to make Purdue worse. There are few coaches out there better than him. As long as he keeps getting to the second weekend, and four times in five tries is excellent, he will have his breakthrough. Folks used to say he had a Sweet 16 ceiling and that was proved wrong.
