Worst Purdue Football Coach in your lifetime

[New Pal Boiler]

I know God is a football fan from all the postgame interviews with players who say God had a purpose during the game and so forth, but not picking up on this joke...?

Eric Hunter

 

[Bippus33]

I know God is a football fan from all the postgame interviews with players who say God had a purpose during the game and so forth, but not picking up on this joke...?

Eric Hunter

Chi-Boiler, since I wrote the police report, I will let you explain the Jesus story.......

 

[Bippus33]

I know God is a football fan from all the postgame interviews with players who say God had a purpose during the game and so forth, but not picking up on this joke...?

Chi-Boiler, since I had to write the police report, I will let you explain the Jesus incident that took place.....

 

[Bippus33]

Eric Hunter

Yes, I will let Chi-Boiler explain.....

 

[New Pal Boiler]

Chi-Boiler, since I had to write the police report, I will let you explain the Jesus incident that took place.....

Oh wow. Haha.

 

[rgarlitz]

Agase’s first year finished 5 and 6, but Purdue had 3 first round draft choices, 2 second round and 8 total. I was in college at Purdue during that time. We were disappointed but a lot better than today’s performance!

Sounds like 2005 when Purdue had at least 7 future draft picks on another disappointing team that finished 5-6.

 

[AZPurdue]

Agase had to be the worst ever! Akers was close. You people complaining now have nothing on the bad coaches us old people suffered through.

Why do I rate Agase so low? He came to Purdue with such high hopes. He had a winning record at Northwestern in the 70’s before transfers and the portals and everything. And in the 79’s, Northwestern was everybody’s doormat.

Agase also had a lot of talent to work with. He was not given a cupboard that was bare. He had players that went to the NFL. He also had players who were good before he arrived and were good after he left.

And it’s not like he was some assistant coach without any experience

Fred Akers was almost as bad. People thought he was going to install a wishbone offense when he arrived. But the facts were he had stopped running the wishbone at Texas before he left. People also thought he was a big name and could use that name to be a big name recruiter. But he was never able to recruit the same caliber of player at Purdue that he was able to recruit at Texas. He would have been better off if he he went to Texas tech or smu or another school in the Texas area.

Agase was the coach during my four years at Purdue.

I'll cut him a little slack, for two reasons. I was in the Purdue Band. We took the road trip to Notre Dame in '74. It was ND's first home game of the season. They raised their national championship flag from '73 season up the flag pole before the game started. Purdue raced out to a 24-7 first quarter lead and won 31-20. The 24 points scored by Purdue in the first quarter was a record for points by an opponent against ND in a quarter (surpassed later in the season by USC, who trounced ND over Thanksgiving weekend).

Then in Agase's final season (1976), #1 Michigan came to Purdue in early November. Safety Rock Supan, pressed in to kicking duties, kicked a short field goal late in the game to upset Michigan, 16-14.

 

[mklinker]

I predicted that people would jump ship long before this season started. I expected it to take a couple of years before the "fire Walters" crew would see the light. I had no idea that it would be a tsunami in the middle of this season. Still wondering where Cillerdo is "Bless his heart."

 

[BBG]

Somewhere ol Hazell is laughing at all of this as even he would be an upgrade over CRW. Only slightly sure, but an upgrade regardless.

That is where the state of this program is.

 

[Wolegib]

Agase’s first year finished 5 and 6, but Purdue had 3 first round draft choices, 2 second round and 8 total. I was in college at Purdue during that time. We were disappointed but a lot better than today’s performance!

that is why I say Agase was bad. He had a lot of talent to work with and expectations were high.

I was not a hazell fan , but for a different reason. when Hazell arrived, there were several other coaches that arrived at their new schools at about the same time. the other coaches who arrived elsewhere brought 5-10 players they recruited or were part of their previous team with them. Hazell brought nobody. he didn't bring anybody he recruited, or anybody from his former team. In contrast, Brohm brought about 15 players from WKU or that he was recruiting with him. When Hazell arrived, he was able to keep the players committed, but he added nothing of value to that first class. Then he did zero recruiting during the spring and summer saying that he'll sign recruits in the fall. By the time fall came, all the good recruits were already committed. so Hazell basically wasted 9 months doing nothing as far as recruiting. Hazell then tried to sign any 3 star recruit he could find regardless of position to try to boost his overall recruiting class rating Hazell also like to over recruit at certain positions and half of the players he signed would never play because off the depth at their positions. contrary to popular belief, 4 star qbs do not make great TEs. if you want a TE, recruit one. None of Hazell's player transformations to other positions worked. Perhaps it's because Purdue coaches have always suked at developing players.

Walters came to purdue with a reputation as being a great defensive mind. I sure haven't seen it at Purdue. Part of his success at Illinois was his use of additional secondary. Either he has the wrong players at Purdue at Purdue, or his opponents have watched some game film and now know how to scheme against it. I worry about one year wonders if they will be able to continue their excellence or if other teams will see it on film and it will never work again.

Part of Tiller's success was that he brought an offense to purdue that the majority of big 10 teams were not familiar defending against. eventually the good teams figured out how to defend against it.

hope was ok. i didn't like that he was hired as an assistant before he took over. on a positive note, he was a very inexpensive coach salary wise. No other head coach would be willing to accept the salary he accepted. Purdue paid for mediocrity and that's what they received.

I have no doubt walters will finish the year at Purdue. looking at this current team, and his recruits, and the schedule, i have no doubt next year will be even worse. the only question is will purdue save money and bring walters back knowing next season is going to be worse ? do they hire another inexperienced assistant coach like walters and hazell or do they go out and hire an experienced successful old coach like petrino or myles or klll?

one thing i know. the next purue coach is NOt going to be Drew.

 

[Chi-Boiler]

Chi-Boiler, since I had to write the police report, I will let you explain the Jesus incident that took place.....

The short version, which is probably all that is necessary, former Purdue QB Eric Hunter broke into a dorm room in Owen Hall brandishing a knife. Claimed he was Jesus.

Now that I recollect, I wasn't actually in Owen at the time, but still knew the 2 guys. Still friends with one of them on FB. Went with them to the 1994 regional in Knoxville. The following school year was when this happened, maybe in the fall. I had moved to an apartment for the 94-95 year.

 

[Bippus33]

The short version, which is probably all that is necessary, former Purdue QB Eric Hunter broke into a dorm room in Owen Hall brandishing a knife. Claimed he was Jesus.

Now that I recollect, I wasn't actually in Owen at the time, but still knew the 2 guys. Still friends with one of them on FB. Went with them to the 1994 regional in Knoxville. The following school year was when this happened, maybe in the fall. I had moved to an apartment for the 94-95 year.

That's exactly what happened. Eric Hunter, easily the most athletic QB in Purdue history but a very sad story.