Big Ten Media Days Open Thread
The Big Ten Media Days started at 1:00 EST. Jim will be speaking today, along with three of our players in Jake Butt, Amara Darboh, and Jourdan Lewis.
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He is a very good public speaker.
Watching it unfold live was great. No one (including his sideline) understood why he was ecstatic.
I liked the gif with The Price is Right nametag pinned on Pat while he was jumping up and down.
Finally, great news. Lets Go Blue!!!!
I don't think they have recruited very well and they haven't had that big time QB lately.
West Lafayette sucks too.
is 100% correct. If you don't think it is . . . you're wrong.
Their budget won't allow the 50 Gal. drum of snake oil it takes to make these recruits sign.
Heated sidewalks man, heated sidewalks.
It's not "heated sidewalks;" it's steam rising from the sewers.
Purdue Public Relations Representative: Shhhh!
is even worse.
I think the local Parks Dept. built a great park on Sullivan Street where that pit used to be.
a choo-choo train.
Their golf course is nice.
The right coach can get them to at least compete and play for 8-9 win seasons, maybe break through one year in an otherwise weak West Division. Joe Tiller managed to do it and had solid teams at least every other year. One pretty darn good one with Brees leading the way.
The Big Ten was much weaker in his time, granted, but Purdue is not like a Northwestern or an Indiana where the support and history have never been there. They just need the right guy and the support will come back. It wasn't too terribly long ago where Purdue was at least a decent team.
Darrell Hazell was not an exciting hire at all. Purdue needs to make some kind of splash with their next hire, like going after a young, up-and-coming hotshot with great recruiting experience, or a great coordinator, like Clemson's OC or Alabama's DC.
Elite coordinators might not choose Purdue because they'll likely have better options, but hey, throw some money and them and see what happens. Worst thing that happens is they say no.
I am pretty sure that Tiller coached when the Big Ten was close to it's best. Michigan and Ohio State were both strong (End of Cooper years was a small drop off). Wisconsin was a very strong team. Northwestern made some runs, as did Illinois. Michigan State had some stronger teams with Saban there, getting to 8-9 wins. Iowa was up and coming and Penn State was still starting in Top 10 until very early naughts. Minnesota had some strong running teams under Mason.
I really don't think that what you say is accurate. Outside of Indiana, the Big Ten was strong top to bottom, and even they had Randel El.
Purdue beat both Michigan and Ohio State that year. Michigan was very good in 2000, just suffered some unfortunate close losses (UCLA & Northwestern) that made the final record look less gaudy. Ohio State had a lot of talent too (2 April 2001 NFL Round 1 draft picks + the young talent that would eventually win the 2002 MNC) --- they were just in the last year of their general under-achieving in the John Cooper era.
Purdue did lose road games at both PSU and MSU. Neither made a Bowl, but neither team was a schlub in 2000. MSU defeated ND (played in the BCS) that year. PSU had some offensive troubles early in the year but the defense was what it typically was. PSU did have Drew Brees' number over the years: Drew was 0-4 vs. PSU.
Granted both the U-M and OSU games were in West Lafayette, but Purdue didn't get to Pasadena by taking advantage of "scheduling luck" --- which has been a "Wisconsin path to the Rose Bowl" more than once over the years.
In 2003 and 2004 Purdue enjoyed a couple of top-ten rankings while playing in a B1G that you could argue was deeper than the current B1G. Tiller had that program bowling almost every year he was there.
Minnesota was another strong program back in those years. Of course, they brought on their own demise with the idiotic firing of Mason.
EVERY B1G team had their moments at/near the top in the 2000-2003 era.
And Indiana had Antwaan Randle-El for 2000-2001! Fans of every other B1G team held their breath when they playing the IU offense those 2 years --- he was scary good.
2004 - Purdue was an undefeated, top 5 ranked team that had Gameday on campus for their game against undefeated Wisconsin. Then this happened:
And then the next week this happened (go to 6:59 if the embed doesn't work right):
And then the whole program pretty much went in a death spiral and never recovered.
I was at the 2004 game with a group of friends, and one of them started a "Fumbling Boilers" chant in our section after Shazor's hit. That chant nearly started a fight.
I was at my first holy communion during this game. Rushed home, turned on the TV and this play happens. I was so stoked. Went out for ribs in my Michigan Jersey that night.
If A&M gets rid of him he would be nice for him to go home.
I know a guy who started for them in the '80s and he's disgusted with the program, doesn't even watch the games on TV. Kind of sad for them.
The only way they'll have a chance to compete is to go full spread, zone-read, Baylor/TCU/Oregon-ish on offense. Hazell bringing in power at Purdue is a no-can-do.
Probably Not
Purdon't?
Purwon't?
Okay, that's a stretch.
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He will get the satellite question, ND back on the schedule question, and a QB question. After that, who knows. He is a magnet for the media.
Jim might actually prefer that considering he doesn't like to provide much information about the team in the first place.
who cares, let that stuff be a distraction to everyone else. As long as they're only talking football within Schembechler Hall, then we're all good.
And answer them with a story about a time Bo yelled at him when he was 12.
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Poor choice of words given the car crash that killed some Big Ten football players yesterday.