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.