Long practice today, got there at 3:20 and they were already working in individual groups. Practice lasted till almost 6 PM.
Blough was throwing in the 1 on 1's, and 5 on 5's, but didn't throw when it was 11 on 11. Seemed to have good velocity and accuracy.
Sipe and Plummer took the most throws all afternoon, with an occasional throw by the walk-ons, Banks and O'Connell. Some nice throws by all, but a couple of interceptions (hard to tell the DB's, cause they roll their jerseys up).
Markell and DJ did most of the running with the first team, and Horvath (RS-FR) ran with the 2nd squad (he's big).
Amad and Jackson look fast at field level! Amad had a couple of drops.
Along the sidelines, Markus seems bigger than 235!
Pro day is at the indoor facility tomorrow, so Austin Appleby, J'wan Bentley and a couple that I didn't recognize were there.
Great talk with Austin! He's such a quality guy.
He's really impressed with coach. AA said he considered Western Kentucky because of Brohm (when he transferred) but it was hard to turn down Florida. He said it was obvious that he made the right decision going to Florida. I told him it was interesting during a couple weekends a couple years ago, that on several Saturdays, there were 3 'Purdue' QB's starting! He said that it was obvious that those guys were not the problem (time to jump in here all you DH haters - personally, I like DH, but he apparently is not HC material).
AA was disappointed that he was picked up by the Cowboys and then cut, but maybe he will land somewhere this year.
JB doesn't give me the time of the day, but did say pro day tomorrow at Purdue was open to the public.
Anthony Mahoungou was there and chatted with him a couple of minutes. I really like him and congratulated him on working hard through the years. It finally paid off. He's graduated and will be at pro day also. He represents Purdue very well ! !
Couple of unofficials were there that I talked to (I'm sure there were others):
- 6'4" 235 lb junior quarterback from "the region" with his dad - don't know if we're recruiting him, but Brian Brohm came over and chatted for a couple of minutes (the more I see of the Brohms, the more I like)
- freshman RB from Class A champion was there with 2 of his coaches (nice people also) - don't know if we're recruiting him
Was impressed with the end of practice talk by the coach:
- go to class this Friday
- work hard
- go to all your classes Friday BEFORE you leave town
- good story about an outstanding player who always stayed after practice to work on stuff
- don't leave Purdue until you've attended all your classes on Friday
- results depend on having a good spring camp, a productive summer and a good fall camp
(you're welcome to send me money for this report!)
Blough was throwing in the 1 on 1's, and 5 on 5's, but didn't throw when it was 11 on 11. Seemed to have good velocity and accuracy.
Sipe and Plummer took the most throws all afternoon, with an occasional throw by the walk-ons, Banks and O'Connell. Some nice throws by all, but a couple of interceptions (hard to tell the DB's, cause they roll their jerseys up).
Markell and DJ did most of the running with the first team, and Horvath (RS-FR) ran with the 2nd squad (he's big).
Amad and Jackson look fast at field level! Amad had a couple of drops.
Along the sidelines, Markus seems bigger than 235!
Pro day is at the indoor facility tomorrow, so Austin Appleby, J'wan Bentley and a couple that I didn't recognize were there.
Great talk with Austin! He's such a quality guy.
He's really impressed with coach. AA said he considered Western Kentucky because of Brohm (when he transferred) but it was hard to turn down Florida. He said it was obvious that he made the right decision going to Florida. I told him it was interesting during a couple weekends a couple years ago, that on several Saturdays, there were 3 'Purdue' QB's starting! He said that it was obvious that those guys were not the problem (time to jump in here all you DH haters - personally, I like DH, but he apparently is not HC material).
AA was disappointed that he was picked up by the Cowboys and then cut, but maybe he will land somewhere this year.
JB doesn't give me the time of the day, but did say pro day tomorrow at Purdue was open to the public.
Anthony Mahoungou was there and chatted with him a couple of minutes. I really like him and congratulated him on working hard through the years. It finally paid off. He's graduated and will be at pro day also. He represents Purdue very well ! !
Couple of unofficials were there that I talked to (I'm sure there were others):
- 6'4" 235 lb junior quarterback from "the region" with his dad - don't know if we're recruiting him, but Brian Brohm came over and chatted for a couple of minutes (the more I see of the Brohms, the more I like)
- freshman RB from Class A champion was there with 2 of his coaches (nice people also) - don't know if we're recruiting him
Was impressed with the end of practice talk by the coach:
- go to class this Friday
- work hard
- go to all your classes Friday BEFORE you leave town
- good story about an outstanding player who always stayed after practice to work on stuff
- don't leave Purdue until you've attended all your classes on Friday
- results depend on having a good spring camp, a productive summer and a good fall camp
(you're welcome to send me money for this report!)
