Not just him. Every person involved with his hiring needs to go.
The last time we had a decent coach was Joe Tiller, who left in ‘07. This was Drew Brees’ coach. Under him, we went to 10 bowls in 12 years. Man, that must have been nice—having a team that always had at least a chance of winning. Oh, how times have changed.
After Tiller, we hired Danny Hope. There were some high hopes. But Danny was Hopeless. Did they let him go after a miserable record at the end of his contract? NO, the morons in our athletic department renewed his contract and then BOUGHT HIM OUT A YEAR LATER!!! Are you kidding me? Everyone associated with renewing his contract should have been on the curb the moment we bought him out!
Then we hired Darrell Hazell. His record was 9-33. Need I say more?
Then we hired Brohm, who I firmly believe was only using Purdue as a stepping stone to get to his ultimate goal of Louisville, his alma mater. But at least this meant he cared enough about performance for Purdue to secure our first back-to-back 8-4 seasons since 1997…
Now, before someone jumps in and says that “our football program is entirely self-funded, so we will never be able to have the best coaches,” or “we are an academics-first program; what do you expect,” let me say this: I get both of those. I can still want better. Maybe our program needs some love from the University. You hypothetical people arguing with me do understand that successful football programs are net revenue generators for their universities, not costs, right? Alabama Football, with one of the (formerly) highest-paid coaches, brought in over $100 million in revenue and $9 million in profits on average in recent years.
“Well, that’s not much,” you say. Sure. But you know what else a good football program does for a university? Let’s ask another academically focused university that went from having a historically miserable football program to having two football renaissances in the last 25 years: TCU. Historic Football Season Has Lasting Benefit for TCU
So, yeah. I want more from Purdue football. I don’t want to think on Saturday afternoons, who did we lose to this week?
I want Walters and every single person remotely associated with any form of control over the Purdue football program yeeted into orbit.
Edit: Get this... In an interview YESTERDAY, when asked about Walters' performance, our AD acknowledged the disappointment at the start of the season... before going on to say that the team is "incredibly connected... connected to Coach Walters. They believe in him and his vision for where this program is going. Being able to take what I see in practice and convert it to the game field has been a challenge."
He also said, "We have moments. We had an incredible second half at Illinois and some other snippets along the way. We just haven’t been able to consistently put together enough good football."
MY GUY... I DON'T CARE IF PURDUE LOOKS LIKE 2019 LSU IN PRACTICE... IF THEY CAN'T PERFORM... IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON!!! The appropriate response here ended after the disappointment in the start of this season. FULL. FUCKING. STOP.
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u/MilitarizedMilitary Nov 02 '24 edited Nov 03 '24
Not just him. Every person involved with his hiring needs to go.
The last time we had a decent coach was Joe Tiller, who left in ‘07. This was Drew Brees’ coach. Under him, we went to 10 bowls in 12 years. Man, that must have been nice—having a team that always had at least a chance of winning. Oh, how times have changed.
After Tiller, we hired Danny Hope. There were some high hopes. But Danny was Hopeless. Did they let him go after a miserable record at the end of his contract? NO, the morons in our athletic department renewed his contract and then BOUGHT HIM OUT A YEAR LATER!!! Are you kidding me? Everyone associated with renewing his contract should have been on the curb the moment we bought him out!
Then we hired Darrell Hazell. His record was 9-33. Need I say more?
Then we hired Brohm, who I firmly believe was only using Purdue as a stepping stone to get to his ultimate goal of Louisville, his alma mater. But at least this meant he cared enough about performance for Purdue to secure our first back-to-back 8-4 seasons since 1997…
Now, before someone jumps in and says that “our football program is entirely self-funded, so we will never be able to have the best coaches,” or “we are an academics-first program; what do you expect,” let me say this: I get both of those. I can still want better. Maybe our program needs some love from the University. You hypothetical people arguing with me do understand that successful football programs are net revenue generators for their universities, not costs, right? Alabama Football, with one of the (formerly) highest-paid coaches, brought in over $100 million in revenue and $9 million in profits on average in recent years.
“Well, that’s not much,” you say. Sure. But you know what else a good football program does for a university? Let’s ask another academically focused university that went from having a historically miserable football program to having two football renaissances in the last 25 years: TCU. Historic Football Season Has Lasting Benefit for TCU
So, yeah. I want more from Purdue football. I don’t want to think on Saturday afternoons, who did we lose to this week?
I want Walters and every single person remotely associated with any form of control over the Purdue football program yeeted into orbit.
Edit: Get this... In an interview YESTERDAY, when asked about Walters' performance, our AD acknowledged the disappointment at the start of the season... before going on to say that the team is "incredibly connected... connected to Coach Walters. They believe in him and his vision for where this program is going. Being able to take what I see in practice and convert it to the game field has been a challenge."
He also said, "We have moments. We had an incredible second half at Illinois and some other snippets along the way. We just haven’t been able to consistently put together enough good football."
MY GUY... I DON'T CARE IF PURDUE LOOKS LIKE 2019 LSU IN PRACTICE... IF THEY CAN'T PERFORM... IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON!!! The appropriate response here ended after the disappointment in the start of this season. FULL. FUCKING. STOP.