Sumlin back on hot seat..............
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I would settle all day long for a coach with a 78-36 record! 7 Bowls in 9 seasons! If thats settling sign me up!
I was certain a couple of weeks ago that he was not even a consideration as he had really done a nice job thus far this year, but with what has transpired the past couple of weeks...if they don't have a big finish, while a very unlikely get, he will at least be a remote possibility and a consideration again.
With his QB going down for the season A&M was and is going to have a tough remainder of the year. Will he get a pass or will his seat get so hot that they replace him remains to be determined!
It's hard for me to entertain the idea of a coach that is currently 7-3 and ranked 8th in the nation in the best conference in college football losing his job and his next choice is Purdue. I would think there would be a few better choices for him IF he were to be let go.
Up until he lost his starting QB, I think he did enough to keep his seat safe for another season.
This is the last place he would entertain. He was one of the coaches Tiller wanted a salary increase and didn't get it. Don't cream in your shorts overnight.
Some Purdue fans don't grasp just how big the big ten windfall is going to be over the next decade. It's enough to attract pretty much any coach.
He coaches in the SEC. Why would an SEC coach come to Purdue for less money and less recruiting base?
If Brett Bielema left Whisky WITH the knowledge that the B1G would be getting more money from their network contracts to go to Arkansas....I'm sure there is no way an SEC coach is leaving that conference for any jobs in the B1G outside of OSU and Michigan (and maaaaaaaaaaybe PSU).
While the B1G contract obviously provides a huge windfall for our schools, it doesn't really set us apart from the SEC and what they make as evidenced below.
"...the conference distributed roughly $32.4 million to each of its longest-standing 11 members, amounts that put those schools on par with amounts the Southeastern Conference distributed to each of its 14 member schools from conference revenue that totaled $527.4 million."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...-pay-salary-compensation-television/84553752/
The Big10 Network gave the conference an early edge, but the SEC and ACC are now doing the same or are in the process of doing so. Purdue (and most other Big10 schools) are NOT going to beat out most other P5 schools for a coach based on what we can pay.
To compete in the upper third of any of the P5 conferences is to engage in an arms race. One which requires ever increasing amounts of money. The TV money allows us to keep up nicely, but we should not kid ourselves that we are, or will be, WAY out in front of everyone else with regards to monetary resources.
And I think the points you make are ones that most rational Purdue fans understand. I don't think Purdue will and should ever be in the same breath as OSU and UM in terms of the bottom line dollar amounts that they spend...but what they can do is give proper and regular funding and spending to maintain the program at a level that makes it on par with its competitors and doesn't leave it at a huge disadvantage to programs like OSU and UM.
The new football training facility is a good start but to truly catch-up with that ideal, lots of money will need to be spent in the next 5-10 years on Ross-Ade and then upgrading and purchasing new equipment in the training facility.
And Anderson leaving wiscy for slightly more $ at Oregon St at the time, plus his admitted disdain for some of their academic standards
We really should have no problem paying our next coach inthe 3-4 mil range.........hell were losing about 800k in lost ticket sales per home game(35k fannies in the seats instead of 55k)....simple math! really believe we will step up and get someone that will turn this ship around! We owe it to the local community as well! Restaurants and hotels alike are taking a brutal hit in revs for the past eight years. Even here in South Bend the Bars and restaurants are suffering with the Irish havinga bad year! Not that I mind.........................
I had heard that the Fort Wayne papers reported that Miles interviewed already for the Purdue job?
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This.
This is the true first step to get Purdue's program out of the ditch. The biggest single factor in IU's climb to respectability has been the ongoing investment in the program's infrastructure. Many Purdue fans won't want to hear that it's going to take a few years before the investment begins to pay off, but it's today's cold, hard reality.
When fans get caught up in the talk over head coaches, I'm reminded of the quote, "Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics."
Only the SEC is going to be close and I don't believe they can keep up with the equity payouts the BTN will provide. They don't own their network.
Also, Delany was brilliant to negotiate a short contract this round (and to get Fox and ESPN bidding against each other) so the SEC will not be able to jump back ahead of us during the next round of negotiations. Add in what we will likely gain with realignment adds in terms of TV markets, I predict the B1G will be the TV money leader for quite some time. That being said, SEC will be a close second. Everyone else is way behind.
