Breakfast Club @ Purdue

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October 4th, 2012 at 12:02 PM
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Breakfast Club @ Purdue

This weekend marks the first time since November 13th, 2010 that Michigan has played a game in West Lafayette at Ross Aide stadium.  As dismal as Purdue's football team tends to be, they do have one of the best tailgating traditions that I have ever partaken in: Breakfast Club.

Now, I know that some of you are going to be at the Airport with your RV's and busses, I know that there are always a few Michigan camps set up in the parking lot and golf course, but I will be attending breakfast club on State street.  The bars open at 7AM, it is essentially a halloween party that starts at when the sun comes out.

Breakfast club is something that everyone should experience at least once, especially for those of you still in college.

For those of you that are already planning on it, I'm curious to know some of the outfits you might be wearing.  Someone had mentioned a few months ago that they were planning on wearing a stormtrooper outfit with a Maize and Blue helmet.  I will probably be dressed up as a cop, making everybody think twice about what is going on.

Here's a photo of waiting in line to get into breakfast club before the bars opened from 2010.

 

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October 4th, 2012 at 12:26 PM | IU has breakfast clubs as (Score:1 Normal)
WolverineinSB
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IU has breakfast clubs as well. Bars open at 7am, but u don't dress up. IU has much better bars tho so I feel like IU's is better.

October 4th, 2012 at 12:53 PM | IU (Score:2 Normal)
IncrediblyBLUE
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does not have breakfast club.  One bar opens at 7am.  Also they don't have football.  Also the bars are well over a mile from the stadium.  Also, why would you go to Roys to hang out with underage coeds as opposed to go to their obviously superior tailgating fields.

Outside of breakfast club, however, I absolutely agree with you that IU has better bars and is generally a much more fun place to be than West Laffalot.  And the girls.

Coach Hoke once told me that a moral victory is still a (expletive deleted) loss.

October 4th, 2012 at 1:44 PM | Dunkirk opens as well which (Score:3 Normal)
WolverineinSB
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Dunkirk opens as well which is next to KOK. I don't go to breakfast club to stay for more than a couple hours. And KOK passes out shirts. The tailgate fields are better and basically complete chaos. I have actually never seen a similar atmosphere as there is in the Greek lot.



I have never gone to a bar at Purdue that was any fun tho but I have never gone to their breakfast club.



And football isn't important to IU everyone knows its a drinking and basketball school and we are good at it haha.

October 4th, 2012 at 2:21 PM | "we are good at it"...now but (Score:1)
State Street
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"we are good at it"...now but have sucked at half of that equation for the better part of the last decade.

October 4th, 2012 at 3:09 PM | U can say what u want but we (Score:1)
WolverineinSB
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U can say what u want but we are preseason 1 this year and our girls are much more attractive. I'm done with this. This is a Michigan blog. Go Blue!

October 4th, 2012 at 5:37 PM | Purdue's isn't about how early the bars open (Score:2)
Budinski
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Breakfast club at Purdue is basically halloween for every home game so it is a completely different animal. I agree that the bars at Purdue are lame. Having spent 3 years there in grad school I can actually say I'd rather spend time in Mt. Pleasant at the bars. But breakfast club is pretty epic. The students put a lot of creativity and time into the costumes and the atmosphere is great despite it being the crack of dawn. I have tailgated for many levels of college football (MAC, Big Ten at several schools, and even DII) but I've never seen anything like breakfast club at Purdue. It's definitely worth the early wake up to see it at least once.

Even if you don't attend breakfast club in costume it is defintely worth seeing. Drive down state street at 7-8 am and you'll see a pretty hilarious S*%& show of drunken students in crazy costumes.

 

HAIL

October 4th, 2012 at 12:26 PM | Seems really cool (Score:1)
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Odd, but very cool. I thought 12 o'clock games made tailgating a pain to wake up for, this changes my whole outlook.

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October 4th, 2012 at 12:26 PM | Sorry, all I read was Breakfast Club. (Score:5 Normal)
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October 4th, 2012 at 12:28 PM | Don't you (Score:5 Normal)
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ba dada da da

Forget about me

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October 4th, 2012 at 3:37 PM | The horns (Score:1)
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You mess with the bulls you get horns.

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October 4th, 2012 at 12:28 PM | Are you gonna be like, goofy (Score:3 Normal)
mgobleu
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Are you gonna be like, goofy village people cop, or like, "possibly gonna get arrested for impersonating an officer" type cop?

Think about it...

 

October 4th, 2012 at 12:37 PM | What's the major difference? (Score:2)
Feat of Clay
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What's the major difference?  No shirt and leather chaps for the former, I assume?

 

 

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October 4th, 2012 at 12:42 PM | What are you talking about?  (Score:5 Normal)
jhender85
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What are you talking about?  Actual cops usually are shirtless and wear chaps.  At least that's how they were when I got detained by police for a random cavity search that one time...

October 4th, 2012 at 12:47 PM | Well, (Score:3 Normal)
IncrediblyBLUE
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Won't be the first time I've worn this outfit.  It was more of a difficulty to make sure that I wasn't overly intoxicated when I was younger, my outfit is from a security detail I worked at an abandoned warehouse.  I have found that as long as I'm not stumbling around threatening to arrest people, the real cops don't mind.  Also, I'm on a first name basis with several of the local guys from growing up in West Lafayette.

I used to cruise around with them in their cars (on the way to jail)

Coach Hoke once told me that a moral victory is still a (expletive deleted) loss.

October 4th, 2012 at 12:50 PM | Uh, listen, not sure of a (Score:4 Normal)
Moleskyn
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Uh, listen, not sure of a good way to break this to you. Those cops... uh, what they did... you know, maybe this isn't the best time. Are you sure you're ready for the truth?

October 4th, 2012 at 12:42 PM | I have attended the Purdue (Score:4 Normal)
MIWolverine1111
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I have attended the Purdue breakfast club and I challenge you to find 10 hot girls.... you will struggle.

October 4th, 2012 at 12:49 PM | That's why you're drinking! (Score:5 Normal)
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That's why you're drinking!

October 4th, 2012 at 12:58 PM | I can find 10 (Score:2 Normal)
IncrediblyBLUE
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Especially on breakfast club, because 1)thats when the girls put on their sluttiest outfits, and cover their faces with masks so's that you cant see that their not pretty, and 2) because there are prety girls at Purdue, the ratios are way off.

My theory there was always that if I met a girl, and she was good looking, it wouldn't take more than 24 hours to find one of my friends that has either had sex with her or has a friend that had sex with her.

That being said, breakfast club is one of the few opportunities that young college coeds may have a chance to be hammered and get laid before 10AM

Coach Hoke once told me that a moral victory is still a (expletive deleted) loss.

October 4th, 2012 at 1:31 PM | The expression in ski towns (Score:1)
2plankr
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The expression in ski towns is "it's not your girlfriend, it's your turn"

October 4th, 2012 at 1:46 PM | That campus has a serious (Score:2 Normal)
WolverineinSB
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That campus has a serious female issue in general.

October 4th, 2012 at 12:46 PM | Go Ugly Early (Score:2 Normal)
Tubes
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Go Ugly Early

Athens, GA

October 4th, 2012 at 5:24 PM | Harry's Chocolate Shop's Motto (Score:2)
Budinski
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Those unfamiliar with Purdue's bars, Harry's is one of the more popular ones. Their motto, "Go Ugly Early". They have t-shirts with the motto. It's on the stools (spent most of one evening brainstorming with friends on how to remove a stool from the bar without being noticed).

As a Purdue Alum and former grad student who has also witnessed all Michigan has to offer, I can honestly agree with the assessment of the girls on this thread! Go Ugly Early!

 

HAIL

October 4th, 2012 at 12:59 PM | So that's where everyone was? (Score:2)
goblueram
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I went to that last game there and the tailgating was absolutely pathetic, the only people out were Michigan folks.  I probably won't go back.

October 4th, 2012 at 1:03 PM | Thinking about taking my (Score:2)
goblue7612
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Thinking about taking my Indiana Fever warmup jersey, throwing on a wig, and going as a WNBA player. Great way to half-ass a costume.

October 4th, 2012 at 1:05 PM | Heh, (Score:4 Normal)
IncrediblyBLUE
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You trying to half-ass a costume will still be a better performance than most WNBA games.

BOOM

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October 4th, 2012 at 1:53 PM | Stormtrooper helmet. (Score:3 Normal)
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"Someone had mentioned a few months ago that they were planning on wearing a stormtrooper outfit with a Maize and Blue helmet."

Hey, that's me! I will be wearing a winged stormtrooper helmet and blue onesie. My friend will also be wearing a stormtrooper helmet and yellow suit jacket. Look for us! Beers are on me.

October 4th, 2012 at 5:30 PM | Photographic evidence (Score:3 Informative)
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This is us from the Penn State game a few years back. (Sorry if an Imgur link is already posted. No imgur at work )

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October 4th, 2012 at 3:00 PM | Breakfast club (Score:1)
Lhbradley25
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Very excited to see this for the first time, I have a friend who ran track at Purdue and told me I should see this. I have never been down to Purdue, any advice from fellow MGoBloggers for a first timer?

October 4th, 2012 at 3:14 PM | three bars open at 7 (Score:1)
IncrediblyBLUE
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where else~crappy club/dance thing going on
brothers~corporate run bar
jakes~tables to sit at, generally crappy service

harrys opens at 10, draws alot older crowd, kindof a melting pot sort of bar

i mean, breakfast club is fun but purdue kinda lame

Coach Hoke once told me that a moral victory is still a (expletive deleted) loss.

October 4th, 2012 at 4:04 PM | haha (Score:2 Normal)
Shop Smart Shop...
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I love it when people complain about the service at Jakes.  When I went to Purdue, my friends and I had a reserved table there for about three years.  It was just passed down from group of seniors to the next.  We always got great service.  It probably helped that our medschool friends often footed the bill and left stupidly large tips.  We actually got a group of brahs removed from our preferred seating on a Friday.  

 

That being said, Breakfast Club is fun, but it just isn't the same as it was in the mid to late 90's when there were more bars on campus.

October 4th, 2012 at 4:20 PM | problem (Score:1)
IncrediblyBLUE
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is, those same bartenders are probably still working there. also, regulars always get better service. you can make the same argument about any bar, i just have always felt i had to wait longer at jakes than anywhere else on campus.

Coach Hoke once told me that a moral victory is still a (expletive deleted) loss.

October 5th, 2012 at 12:10 AM | Fair enough point.  Reading (Score:1)
Shop Smart Shop...
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Fair enough point.  Reading about breakfast club just made me nostalgic.  My favorite was a friend of a friend stumbling into the party house at 10 AM wearing a toga and one shoe.  He had left 4 hours earlier dressed as a ninja.  We never did get the full story on that one.

October 5th, 2012 at 10:16 AM | glory days.. (Score:1)
IncrediblyBLUE
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i remember one time being dressed as a superman and convincing some (questionably attractive) chick dressed as superwoman that we should be making super babies

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October 4th, 2012 at 3:27 PM | Probably would be more (Score:2)
Yinka Double Dare
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Probably would be more possible if the game wasn't at 4pm Eastern, which made it basically a perfect one-day thing from Chicago.  Wake up at a fairly normal time, drive down, big family tailgate, see the game, drive home, all in one day.

October 4th, 2012 at 4:15 PM | (No subject) (Score:4 Normal)
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Nevermind. I missed the part where it said costumes.

October 4th, 2012 at 4:31 PM | A little harmless self-promotion... (Score:5 Normal)
Kevbot
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For anyone who will be itn West Lafayette on Saurday, if you're getting bored with the tailgating, feel free to come watch the Purdue Men's Rugby team play against Sparty. The pitch is just west of the tailgating fields at 168 McCormick Rd, West Lafayette. The A Side kicks off at 1, so they'll be done by 2:30, which leaves plenty of time to get to the stadium and watch warmups or to go continue tailgating. The rugby game is free admission (but if you bring alcohol, keep it in a cup), and there's nothing wrong with coming out to cheer against Michigan State!

October 4th, 2012 at 5:34 PM | As a Purdue senior (Score:3 Normal)
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and a 21-year-old I will be going ugly early, pass out, then wake up at 3. Last time Michigan came here I sat in the student section, first row, and displayed a Michigan flag the whole game... it set a serious fire under the student section's ass, which is hard to do at a football game. Now, it is October break weekend so I expect the student section to be more than pathetic.

Anyway, i won't be sitting in the student section this go around.

 

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October 4th, 2012 at 8:04 PM | Extra ticket (Score:0 Flamebait)
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October 4th, 2012 at 9:35 PM | First time for me this weekend! (Score:1)
HELLE
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I'm still a little skeptical about the crowd size for a seven am bar scene.

Go Blue!

October 4th, 2012 at 10:37 PM | M Alumni Roadshow At Purdue (Score:1)
fifthangell
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The UM alumni association will also be hosting a tailgate prior to the game at the Buffalo Wild Wings in West Lafayette:

http://football.umalumni.com/Purdue

October 5th, 2012 at 3:17 AM | Funny thing about Breakfast (Score:2)
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Funny thing about Breakfast Club (according to my Boilermaker brother) is that it really kills attendance at football games.  Makes sense to me: the people most likely to want to go to the game are also the ones most likely to be in no shape to.

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October 5th, 2012 at 1:03 PM | Morgan Burke's been doing that for 20 years (Score:1)
zlionsfan
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a little drinking isn't going to change it much. Well, other than the fact that the stadium is uphill from the bars (and some of the tailgating areas). Bad planning.

Burke's approach, and that of George King before him, was that by God this is Big Ten football and you are going to show up. Actually improving the quality of the product on the field wasn't really a consideration (Exhibit A: every single coach under those guys; Tiller had partial success by running an offense people hadn't seen before and getting lucky with Brees, as much as it pains me to say).

Hiring a guy with no I-A experience on nothing more than Tiller's say-so did a lot to kill attendance. True, bar drinking does have a way of keeping people from getting to the game itself, but who wants to sober up watching Purdue fart away a lead against a MAC school or get crushed in Big Ten competition? (Not every game can be as exciting as you-know-which-one ...) And really, there can't be more than a thousand or so in the bars. That wouldn't even make a dent in IU's Memorial Stadium.

Burke seems to assume that he can focus on building competitive programs in other sports (which, TBH, he's done a pretty good job at) and that football will simply take care of itself. Younger fans might prefer to watch BTN; older fans have been through this many times already, thank you, no need to spend money on another 6-6 team. (It was one thing to have optimism in the mid-'80s with Jim Everett, or in the '00s with NFL-caliber QBs and Curtis Painter. Now, though ...) Burke's fortunate that a number of Big Ten schools travel well, or there'd be a much more noticeable drop in attendance.

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