This is an interesting "analysis" by the Wall Street Journal (they have a way of creating some the most obscure sports ranking methodologies). Measures your football program's amount of boastful self-promotion vs actual performance on the field. Here's the top half of the grid from the online version of the article, but as you might expect you'll need to scroll down to the lower half to find us in the "weakling/humble" quadrant lower left hand corner. Seems pretty accurate to me for Purdue. In my backyard, UK shows up with only a slightly better "weakling" rating, but a relatively high "hypo" rating despite program's performance history. And IU, well they do rank slightly more "weakling" than us (probably still correct despite recent bucket history), with a slightly higher "Harbaugh hypo" rating. Also seems about right to me. Will be interesting to see how Harbaugh kicks off the season tonight @ Utah, and whether he can back up any of his hype. Hazell/Harbaugh...opposite ends of this ranking before the season starts. Wonder what it will look like in January?
