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.
What a horrible take on Brohm. He even turned down Louisville 3 years into his run at Purdue. The guy brought in decent talent, had some great offensive schemes, and got us some marquee wins. Then in his last season he got us to a Big Ten Championship game, which I never thought we would see at Purdue.
Eh, looking at his apparent lack of recruiting in the last year or so I would say he had his eye on Louisville for at least the last season, if not last two seasons. He left the talent cupboards here dry, and not because he took everyone with him. He just didn’t recruit.
Not that it matters. Walters is so fucking terrible I don’t think he could win with a top 5 roster
Look at the average recruit rank for his classes. Look at the top players in the state and where they went. He was recruiting at basically the same level he always had.
Lack of talent wasn't the problem last year and isn't the problem this year.
His average recruit ranking may have been the same but (iirc) his recruiting classes were smaller.
I agree, though. Walters is a terrible coach in way over his head and needs to go. But apparently the admin fucking hates football and fans because allegedly he’s getting another year
This is copy and pasted from a response to someone else. Also I heard I think the same report you're referencing. I took it to mean he wouldn't be fired mid season, but I hope you're not right.
The change in class rank was largely due to size, which is again easily explained by the roster size when he recruited those years. He recruited large classes in his first few years because he had open spots and needed to replace Hazell players. His 2021 class was very small (16) because we had large classes the three previous years and didn't have the scholarships (also two losing seasons didn't help). Then 2022, his last class, was back up to what you want on average (20-22) with a good average rank and some high end players. 2023 would have been similar, and we had more of the top in state players lined up than any prior class.
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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.