Purdue Coach Hope Blames Noise for Loss
In the Purdue interview this morning, Purdue Coach Hope blamed their loss on the crowd noise. He discussed the fact that the O-Line did not "fire-off" at the same time and this caused problems for the offense. He went on to say that he thought the team was used to the noise because of the PSU game.
I guess he forgot to mention that the M D-Line dominated and man-handled the Purdue O-Line. Also, the M O-line opened gaping holes for Fitz and Mike. Certainly an interesting spin on the poor performance of his team.
http://www.purduesports.com/sports/m-footbl/pur-m-footbl-body.html
October 31st, 2011 at 8:13 AM ^
Agreed the tailgating is fun and it gets compressed into too small of a window when the game starts at noon. Combine that with the insane lines at the NE gates(takes just as long to walk around to another one) and you get the recipe for delicious late arrival punch. It's going to be a fact of life and worrying about it is a waste of time.
October 31st, 2011 at 9:37 AM ^
you have to capitalize all coaches names except coach hope. In his case, it's optional.
October 30th, 2011 at 11:10 PM ^
That jet pack was really loud.
October 30th, 2011 at 11:10 PM ^
The crowd must have gotten into the defense's heads too, because their whole team played like shit.
October 30th, 2011 at 11:24 PM ^
Overall I didn't think it was overly loud compared to other games. It definitely had its loud moments like early in the game and around the time of the safety, but overall it seemed pretty average to me. If average=loud to Purdue then maybe we can start to lose our reputation as the quietest 112,000+ fans in football.
October 30th, 2011 at 11:26 PM ^
Whenever I hear.. Seven Nation Army or Dynamite, it just reminds me of that magical night on September 10th 2011. No place like the Big House!!
October 31st, 2011 at 12:04 AM ^
Long story short - my son is a ND fan because my dad is. I think it was my dad's revenge for me not becoming an Irish fan.
My sister-in-law works for a hotel connected to the Inn at St. Mary's and gave me free tickets to the ND -Navy game. My son would like to see them once a year (he told me this was a goal) and free tickets are better than paying for them. It wasn't a very exciting game as Navy's defense is terrible and Notre Dame showed them no mercy. My son was excited to get to see them and fulfill his goal this year.
I will say, I have been to Notre Dame a few times and never have heard the piped in music before. They had the selections you would assume. AC/DC, Metallica, Guns and Roses, etc, etc. It was very loud and very cheesy just like it comes across at the Big House. The one thing I remember is that when they played Seven Nation Army a few fans around me squirmed and said they didn't like that song. It reminded them too much of the UTL game. I laughed out loud and drew a few strange looks.
October 31st, 2011 at 1:10 AM ^
works for the hgi right by the inn at st marys
October 31st, 2011 at 11:50 AM ^
Cool!
October 31st, 2011 at 1:27 PM ^
Child Protective Services take note.
October 30th, 2011 at 11:27 PM ^
I blame it on the fact that we scored too many points and his team scored too few. Or his weak attempt to copy Tiller's mustache. One of those.
October 30th, 2011 at 11:28 PM ^
Danny Hope had a bullshit excuse for a loss rather than owning up to getting beat like a dead horse?
October 30th, 2011 at 11:31 PM ^
October 30th, 2011 at 11:33 PM ^
Everytime i get to go to a MICHIGAN Football game, it seems more like a wine and cheese tasting party. I hate to say it or even think it, but it is true. I mean, i do not want any jackasses screaming in your ear and all that but, i was not able to attend the Under the Lights game and i could feel the noise just watching it at home in Greenville, S.C.
Am i the only one who would like to see maybe two to three night games per year? I do not know what it is, but night games always seem to be rocking no matter where they are played. The Under the Lights game felt like my house was shaking.
October 31st, 2011 at 12:14 AM ^
In a perfect world... we stick to an 8-game conference schedule with two baby seals and alternating home and away with ND and a BCS team. This allows us to make our premier OOC home game at night in September. Then either MSU or our best October B1G game is also played at night. UTL was absolutely special, and it would be stupid to limit ourselves to just an occasional night game.
October 31st, 2011 at 9:42 AM ^
each year. Indeed they are special...people are just naturally more exciteable and rowdy at night. UTL was freakin' amazing from start to finish.
October 31st, 2011 at 1:27 PM ^
Would it still be special?
October 31st, 2011 at 11:37 PM ^
Yes. Yes it would.
October 30th, 2011 at 11:36 PM ^
Danny Hope has just agreed to be the next football coach for North Korea.
October 30th, 2011 at 11:51 PM ^
October 31st, 2011 at 12:10 AM ^
is a junior-high school, no class asshole.
October 31st, 2011 at 12:15 AM ^
I was at the game (Section 35, Row 3) and it wasn't any louder than previous games I've been to pre-luxury boxes/pre-RichRod.
Whether Hope is full of crap about this or not, I don't care. It's kind of nice to hear. I can think of only one other time where an opponent commented on our crowd being really loud. In 98 when we spanked undefeated Wisconsin, Ron Dayne kept running the wrong way on option plays and he later said he couldn't hear the calls because the crowd was too loud.
October 31st, 2011 at 2:22 AM ^
Hope: "Let me introduce you to my football player, who you had suspended for 1 game after he dong punched a Northern Illinois football player."
I hope Wisconsin hangs 70 on that asshat.
October 31st, 2011 at 12:36 AM ^
If I were Hope, I chalk it up to Michigan having more talent.
If he wants to blame anyone, he can blame himself. Dude can't fight his way out of a wet paper bag.
October 31st, 2011 at 12:44 AM ^
JHSNCAH
October 31st, 2011 at 2:22 AM ^
...plus a fine coating of snake oil on Roy Roundtree's jersey.
October 31st, 2011 at 3:31 AM ^
I actually watched the video the OP linked to and he talks for 3 or 4 minutes about being out-coached, out-played, and how Michigan executed much better than Purdue, etc. The crowd noise comment was after all of this, and he is certainly not blaming the loss entirely on the noise, he only mentioned it because it was part of the problem.
Having said that, hurray for crowd noise!
October 31st, 2011 at 1:04 PM ^
Hope is interesting,but pointless.
October 31st, 2011 at 7:25 AM ^
Danny Hopeless is pretty much everything you don't want in a role model/college football coach. He teaches his players to whine, make excuses, and never take responsibility for their own actions or the consequences thereof. I'm sure those "lessons" really help the players as they go through post-football life.
October 31st, 2011 at 8:15 AM ^
Danny Hopes comments are erroneous. Purdue does not understand crowd noise they are use to there fans who are mostly quiet and when they do cheer its for the basketball team.
October 31st, 2011 at 9:11 AM ^
Here in FL, High School Bands have no such rule. They play and play loud, some all game long. It is very disruptive. Many bands play during their team's offensive series even.
Also, EVERY high school has a huge ROTC program...big difference from northern MI where I came from (no high school ROTC).
October 31st, 2011 at 10:27 AM ^
Your avatar has prevented me from reading any of your posts from beginning to end, good as they may be.
Having said that, don't you dare change it.
October 31st, 2011 at 11:59 AM ^
You are obviously talking about our band. They play while we are in a huddle, on the sidelines during timeouts during key moments in games, when we come to the line of scrimmage....but when the opponent has the ball...NOTHING!!!
October 31st, 2011 at 10:04 AM ^
Maybe I just sound old here, but IIRC in the 90s there was a regularly enforced crowd noise rule where if the fans were too loud and the opposing offense couldn't hear, they just had to appeal to the referee who gave a warning to the crowd and then a 5-yard penalty. I seem to remember this being enforced in Michigan Stadium, without any benefit of skyboxes. The funny thing of course being that it just made the crowd louder.
October 31st, 2011 at 12:01 PM ^
I also remember Michigan teams politicing for that call....a lot!!
October 31st, 2011 at 12:42 PM ^
Jim Harbaugh was the master of that. I used to imitate his appeal to the refs.
October 31st, 2011 at 11:23 AM ^
Hope's mustache is like gergs hair. Beautiful things attached to bafoons.