I think I will go to Spring Game and see what team looks like. I gotta admit, I am hoping to see a better team. Looks like great weather, if the forecast holds.
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Lol, I hope so. I want to see the QB's and just think with the good weather, it will be a good time with my fellow Boilermakers.
I'll be there Saturday. Anyone want to meet up to introduce ourselves in the real world?
Lol! I don't think we will have to worry about too many wins this season..........three wins, maybe four tops! Not enough with a new AD coming in......
Flag, I'll post on Friday about meeting up. Too bad that new strip across from Mackey doesn't have a bsr,
yeah, what's up with that? A bar in that area would be printing money, especially on game days. It could be 2 stories with a rooftop bar, and from the 2nd floor you could have a walking bridge across northwestern to Mackey and Ross Ade. That way you don't have drunken Boilers staggering out into traffic.
Thought there was a bar at one time between the bookstore and mad mushroom in that old strip (where burger King was, which had a small second floor too).
Didn't last long though.
Assumed not enough over 21s up there to keep it busy during off-game times.
Didn't last long though.
Assumed not enough over 21s up there to keep it busy during off-game times.
Rowdy's...owned by the guy who had Nick's before the library bought him out. I was actually part of the staff there that helped him open it up. He had a ton of health issues that messed with his mental ability though and he ran us out and ran it into the ground. We had established great specials and a great crowd for different days...but he came in and started changing specials on a weekly basis. We left a few weeks after that and he simply ran it into the ground...unfortunate because it was a prime location. I didn't last much longer than 2 months due to his constant changing as I was head of music, talent bookings, and promotions.
Keep in mind for the spring game, they draft. So the roster is split, which can cause a lot of uneven matchups. Probably will find out today what Hazell will do with the O-line, considering there aren't enough healthy players to fill two complete lines. Would suspect there will be one line that rotates and plays for both teams. Gonna be a lot of snaps for those guys. At least if that's the case, you will be able to see a true(ish) performance by the QBs, like you said you wanted to watch.
Against our defense they better do well...the QB's always "look good" in the spring game, then they tank when they have to go against a Power 5 defense, which they obviously don't see in practice.
yeah - as I told a co-worker the other day, we're great at kicking our own asses.
Can it be better? Could be 4 or 5? Schedule is a tad easier. 2 maybe 3 non-conf wins.......one, maybe 2 conf wins. Any givin' Saturday upsets can happen. Nobody will get "JACKED" up to play us this year(only IU)!!!!!!!! catch a team sleeping, anything is possible.
Sitting row 31 on 30 yard line on Purdue side if anyone wants to say hi, on North 30
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Weather was great! When your team scores, your team has also given up a score, so . . . . . .
Having attended the spring games for many years (back to the 70's, this was the largest crowd that I remember. No parking spaces available in the FB parking lot!
It is never well attended. I think parking fillup was due to construction and the 5K cancer walk which had a big turnout. I would guesstimate? 12,000? Bear in mind maybe 30% of seats were unusable due to construction. South Endzone also locked down.
I've been to spring games where there wasn't more than 3000...so saying 12k is a vast improvement. I think many people were curious about the new coordinators more than anything.
I didn't get a chance to go due to my ex-wife dumping my boys on me unexpectedly this morning though. When is the replay on BTN?
I didn't get a chance to go due to my ex-wife dumping my boys on me unexpectedly this morning though. When is the replay on BTN?
Well back in my time 20+ years ago it used to be same day as Grand Prix, the band never came, no fan fest, no autograph session, and seemed to always rain. Spring games outside of Nebraska were nothing. I would say that the attendance is relative to program enthusiasm. Like recently, Hope's first spring was a nice crowd that shrunk after time. There were more people in 2013 than 2014, etc. The game itself at Purdue has always been bad football in that there very rarely is enough talent to split rosters. But whatever. I am pretty sure I saw a 3-9 Squad.
Eastern Kentucky, Nevada, Minnesota. Other than that, it'll take a team probably pulling a Nebraska and having 4-6 TO's.
I am optimistic. I think EKU for sure. I am hoping Nevada has jet lag. With the conference I think Illinois might have a one year window to beat them. Maybe Minnesota. I think we can win one conference game. We have talent in some spots, absolutely no depth.
Depth at RB and QB on offense and depth at LB but other than that it is comically thin. It seems more prospects are intrigued with Purdue and the new coordinators but the 2017 class I think will end up being the domino that finally find Hazell being fired. If he can get 4 wins, I think that would secure him another year if he has a good recruiting class. But another dead last class and it truly shows an inability to recruit. There are players on the roster that could play at the bigger programs but the issue is there isn't enough of them and there is no depth. Keeping players fresh is a key but it'll kill a team in the 4th quarter.
How on earth does winning 4 games earn another year? We're really setting the bar low...
(we fired Hope after his fourth year - after going to 2 bowl games!)
Because if MB and the BOT can stomach 6 wins in 3 years, what's to say almost doubling his win total in a single year wouldn't warrant a sniff from those in charge who only care that the program is able to stay afloat because of the BTN money (IMO). Once again, if you can manage to secure funding for $70 million and then properly throw it in our faces as fans...you have the ability to fire a coach who has been a monumental disaster up to this point.
If Hazell was given an infinite amount of time (let's say a 25 year guaranteed contract that couldn't be terminated)....how long do you think it would be until the program would be able to get to 7 wins per season and sustain it? I would say a minimum of 15 years if at all.
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