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Well, this doesn't sound encouraging...

Boilerbrewer said:
Sorry if this has already been posted elsewhere, but apparently there are those in Atlanta that aren't exactly wringing their hands with despair at the loss of their AD.

http://www.myajc.com/news/sports/college/georgia-tech-was-dysfunction-junction-under-bobins/nsCmC/
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Yeah, I just read that after hearing it discussed (and the other scathing article by Jeff Schultz) on SiriusXM's College Sports Nation. Very, very concerning, imo. I'll wait and see what this guy does, but in the back of my mind I'm thinking "leave it to Purdue to botch the most important hire of this century (thus far)... again...
 
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Sure sounds like we may have not done our research on this hire very well so with now three interesting strikes on him 1) a Domer 2) not a football guy and 3) an interesting legacy at Tech so we will have to wait and see if we have hired Morgan Burke 2.0 or someone who will act quickly and CORRECTLY if he determines that we need a new Head Football Coach this fall! His first decision on the Football Program will be very telling!!!!!
 
Speaking of branding:
Watching the Olympics, I keep hearing about the schools where a lot of the athletes attend, including iu a number of times. Why is Purdue not taking advantage of branding/marketing the hell out of Boudia and Steele both being from Purdue? Or maybe they have and I've missed it.
 
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You are not going to find any GT alums that are sad to see Sasquatch go. I have been praying for him to move along for the past two years.

Hope he works out better for you guys ....I have always pulled for Purdue when I watch Big10 games. Good luck this season!
 
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Boilerbrewer said:
Sorry if this has already been posted elsewhere, but apparently there are those in Atlanta that aren't exactly wringing their hands with despair at the loss of their AD.

http://www.myajc.com/news/sports/college/georgia-tech-was-dysfunction-junction-under-bobins/nsCmC/
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Couple of things about that article. An airline that transports our troops to the Mideast isn't good enough for the GT team? Plus the game in Ireland sounds quite innovative, who gets the credit for that?

I've been a Purdue fan under three ADs: Red Mackey, George King and Brand. George King was by far the worst so I'm glad we didn't repeat the mistake of hiring from within. If we screened 50 applicants, seems like he must have made a convincing case for himself. Let's see how football season goes and give the new guy a chance to do his thing.
 
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Hope he works out better for you then he did for us. We're just not sure what his plan was at Tech. Good luck this season.
 
Well at least he spearheaded a great football program while at Xavier ..... oh well hell no ...they don't even have a football team?
 
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As a UGA alum and a Purdue fan living in Atlanta, here is my take.

I don't overall hate the hire. I think there were better out there but also likely far, far worse. Tech has an interesting conundrum in athletics.....they are in the most fertile recruiting ground in the US for all of their sports (Baseball, BBall, Football) yet don't really seem to recruit up to snuff. Some similarities there, as Purdue has a top tier BBall recruiting ground but we are one of the worst talent states for football out there....especially having to support 4 FBS programs in state, which is just as many as Georgia has with about literally 10x the talent base to pull from in state.

MB walked into a bad situation at Tech for sure. A terrible basketball hire with Brain Gregory and a football team that is stagnant at best (but yes, better than ours right now). Sure, GT had a great year 2 years ago but before that and since it's been a lot of 6-6 and a lot of bad defeats (think Danny Hope esque). He certainly has his work cut out for him here at Purdue....but he's being blown a lot of shit for the Josh Pastner hire but I think that is as good as a program like Tech could do after 6 seasons with no tournament appearances. Pastner can recruit his balls off (although he's a terrible in game coach....think the opposite of Painter) and I think that is the perfect strategy for a team that stands where Tech is at....where the baseline of talent is at an all time low and you reside in a VERY talent rich city, state and region and play in a top 2 power conference. I think the Pastner hire was a home run for the situation they were in. It tells me that MB knew the current situation, knew what they needed (an infusion of talent) and tried to set themselves on a new direction.

I'd be totally cool with him bringing in a great recruiter as Purdue basketball or football's next hire and then letting those guys bring in top tier coaches to assemble a good staff.

I'm taking a wait and see approach on this as of now. I don't hate it though.
 
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Couple of things about that article. An airline that transports our troops to the Mideast isn't good enough for the GT team? Plus the game in Ireland sounds quite innovative, who gets the credit for that?

I've been a Purdue fan under three ADs: Red Mackey, George King and Brand. George King was by far the worst so I'm glad we didn't repeat the mistake of hiring from within. If we screened 50 applicants, seems like he must have made a convincing case for himself. Let's see how football season goes and give the new guy a chance to do his thing.
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I agree. All I really got from the article is the football coach, who wasn't hired by MB, hated him. That could be as much the coaches fault as MB. I'm willing to give him a chance. This idea that he has no FB experience is not really fair. He's been a high level athletics administrator for over 20 years at schools with FB. And I couldn't care less about him being a Domer.
 
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I have no idea if Bobinski will be a great, average, or bad AD at Purdue (we'll get to judge him by what he does here over the next couple of years), but I'm not going to hold it against him if he ruffled some feathers in and around the GT athletic department during his tenure.

Under the previous AD at GT, the football & basketball programs were cited by the NCAA in 2011 for major violations that resulted in vacated wins, returned money, a forfeited championship, restricted recruiting days/visits, and probation. While on probation for those violations (2011-2012, prior to MBob), nine of their programs were found to be playing the Sampson game of impermissible calls & text which resulted in their probation being extended until 2017 (among other self-imposed sanctions for a failure to monitor finding).

I think I'd probably be more concerned if Bobinski didn't clash with the personalities & philosophies in place at GT when he arrived.
 
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And I couldn't care less about him being a Domer.
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This is the complaint that really makes me scratch my head. How exactly is his being a Notre Dame grad a bad thing? I keep hearing about needing a focus on football. Does anyone know an ND grad, let alone one that has been involved in athletics for decades, that doesn't have an interest in football? I think it is time to bury the hatchet with ND anyway, considering the teams no longer play each other on a regular basis and none of their fans consider Purdue as a rival anymore. This is coming from a guy who used to hate ND with a passion.
 
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This is the complaint that really makes me scratch my head. How exactly is his being a Notre Dame grad a bad thing? I keep hearing about needing a focus on football. Does anyone know an ND grad, let alone one that has been involved in athletics for decades, that doesn't have an interest in football? I think it is time to bury the hatchet with ND anyway, considering the teams no longer play each other on a regular basis and none of their fans consider Purdue as a rival anymore. This is coming from a guy who used to hate ND with a passion.
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Exactly. Unless he's the first ND grad in the history of the school who cares more about BB than FB, I'm pretty sure he's a FB guy. He even fired Gerry Faust! And he clearly said FB is his #1 priority.

I'm not saying the guy's perfect, but I was pleasantly surprised by the choice. I expected someone from a much smaller school. And he can hide away as Sasquatch all he wants if he gets our FB program back on track. I'm more suspicious of ADs who seek the spotlight anyway.
 
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I think Bobinski being a ND grad would concern me more if he was 10 years younger.

I'll say this: if he is looking to make a jump to Notre Dame, he'll have to work some miracles here (especially in football) fairly quckly. So, that wouldn't be all bad for Purdue.
 
pboiler18 said:
As a UGA alum and a Purdue fan living in Atlanta, here is my take.

I don't overall hate the hire. I think there were better out there but also likely far, far worse. Tech has an interesting conundrum in athletics.....they are in the most fertile recruiting ground in the US for all of their sports (Baseball, BBall, Football) yet don't really seem to recruit up to snuff. Some similarities there, as Purdue has a top tier BBall recruiting ground but we are one of the worst talent states for football out there....especially having to support 4 FBS programs in state, which is just as many as Georgia has with about literally 10x the talent base to pull from in state.

MB walked into a bad situation at Tech for sure. A terrible basketball hire with Brain Gregory and a football team that is stagnant at best (but yes, better than ours right now). Sure, GT had a great year 2 years ago but before that and since it's been a lot of 6-6 and a lot of bad defeats (think Danny Hope esque). He certainly has his work cut out for him here at Purdue....but he's being blown a lot of shit for the Josh Pastner hire but I think that is as good as a program like Tech could do after 6 seasons with no tournament appearances. Pastner can recruit his balls off (although he's a terrible in game coach....think the opposite of Painter) and I think that is the perfect strategy for a team that stands where Tech is at....where the baseline of talent is at an all time low and you reside in a VERY talent rich city, state and region and play in a top 2 power conference. I think the Pastner hire was a home run for the situation they were in. It tells me that MB knew the current situation, knew what they needed (an infusion of talent) and tried to set themselves on a new direction.

I'd be totally cool with him bringing in a great recruiter as Purdue basketball or football's next hire and then letting those guys bring in top tier coaches to assemble a good staff.

I'm taking a wait and see approach on this as of now. I don't hate it though.
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PBoiler18: Sorry, I gotta ask. How's does a UGA alum living in Atlanta come to be a Purdue fan? I lived in Georgia for 10 years and it seemed everyone I met was a UGA fan, except for the GT grads I met, and there were relatively few of them. Just curious.
 
BoilerBonz said:
PBoiler18: Sorry, I gotta ask. How's does a UGA alum living in Atlanta come to be a Purdue fan? I lived in Georgia for 10 years and it seemed everyone I met was a UGA fan, except for the GT grads I met, and there were relatively few of them. Just curious.
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There are 8 Purdue grads in my family including 2 masters and 1 PhD. 2 Grandparents were faculty members. Was born and raised in Lafayette. Didn't move down to GA until it was too late to pick a good football team to cheer for....
 
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There are 8 Purdue grads in my family including 2 masters and 1 PhD. 2 Grandparents were faculty members. Was born and raised in Lafayette. Didn't move down to GA until it was too late to pick a good football team to cheer for....
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So are you a DAWG fan also?
 
Personally, I like the hire and feel he has said the right things coming in to the job...especially given he is going to share some duties with Morgan initially. I think he gave a solid response about the football program without throwing Hazell under the bus nor did he give him a big vote of confidence (which we all know is a shadow game for...I'm firing your ass at the first site of trouble). I am hopeful the man comes in and sees how bad the branding is at Purdue and gets the athletic department and marketing department together to be on a clear and definite shared path.
 
My thoughts after waiting a few days after reading the follow ups! What the heck does playing baseball at ND or an AD at a school that does not have a football going to help our biggest glaring problem, our football program...nothing! In three short years at GT if he is going to get the credit for their Program going to the Orange Bowl he also must get the credit for taking them to a 3-9 record in three short years in 2015! As he stated he is NOT a football guy...jmo!
 
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Absolutely. Spent 5 football seasons in Athens. Hard not to be. Especially when Purdue hasn't given me much to watch over the past 8 years. Now, basketball season is ALL Purdue!
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Who'd you root for in the 2 Outback Bowls? (Man those seem like forever ago!)
 
ghostoffatjack said:
My thoughts after waiting a few days after reading the follow ups! What the heck does playing baseball at ND or an AD at a school that does not have a football going to help our biggest glaring problem, our football program...nothing! In three short years at GT if he is going to get the credit for their Program going to the Orange Bowl he also must get the credit for taking them to a 3-9 record in three short years in 2015! As he stated he is NOT a football guy...jmo!
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Fred Glass isn't an Any Sport guy, and yet he is kicking our asses in football.
 
New Pal Boiler said:
Who'd you root for in the 2 Outback Bowls? (Man those seem like forever ago!)
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I was all Purdue for those. I was actually at both. I was 15 in 2000, and 18 and a HS Sr. in 2003 so I hadn't made it to college quite yet. I'd still cheer for Purdue now if they met.....but you're right....those days seem long, long ago. I don't have to worry about it.
 
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