It's not "is it Painter or Purdue?" That people should be debating. It's a chicken and egg thing: is Matt Painter a hard ass, hard nosed coach because he is at Purdue and has to be, or is that his natural inclination? And is Purdue this blue collar because they naturally are, or has that been shaped by its coaches?
So look at them separately: would Matt Painter be able to recruit at an elite level if he were at an elite program? or would he run it into the ground, a la Billy Gillespie at UK, Tommy Amaker at Michigan, and Steve Lavin at UCLA? And when I say "run into the ground" I mean to perform significantly lower than expectations and when you are replaced, the team goes back to some national relevance. I say that if he were a hard-ass like he is now, there is definitely a possibility that could happen. We know he is a great x and o guy, so that might counter getting 3 burger boys instead of 5, but would he have expected success? That is question 1.
Question 2 is - how would Purdue fare with a slick, smooth talking coach Cal or Izzo? This is a harder question to answer because in the modern era, we haven't had a coach like that. For the past 35 years, we have had the same style of coach. I am not saying for good or bad, but the styles are very similar.
Again, I think these are chicken and egg scenarios.
Posted from Rivals Mobile
So look at them separately: would Matt Painter be able to recruit at an elite level if he were at an elite program? or would he run it into the ground, a la Billy Gillespie at UK, Tommy Amaker at Michigan, and Steve Lavin at UCLA? And when I say "run into the ground" I mean to perform significantly lower than expectations and when you are replaced, the team goes back to some national relevance. I say that if he were a hard-ass like he is now, there is definitely a possibility that could happen. We know he is a great x and o guy, so that might counter getting 3 burger boys instead of 5, but would he have expected success? That is question 1.
Question 2 is - how would Purdue fare with a slick, smooth talking coach Cal or Izzo? This is a harder question to answer because in the modern era, we haven't had a coach like that. For the past 35 years, we have had the same style of coach. I am not saying for good or bad, but the styles are very similar.
Again, I think these are chicken and egg scenarios.
Posted from Rivals Mobile
