I think the OSU game was the anomaly since they had no other games where they played like that. PU has had other srinkers this year. I think we made the right call in Satterfield.
I agree. The only anomaly was PSU beating OSU the way they did. It got coach Brohm a nice fat pay raise though so I'm happy for him. Even happier he is sticking it to Purdue. LOL.
I love hiring Satterfield but give me a break about JB’s year at Purdue. He took over a sagging wreck of a bottom feeder in the Big 10 less than 2 years ago and has done more with less than anyone could have imagined. Yes, that includes beating the crap out of of Top 10 Ohio St team and pounding a physical Boston College team this year not to mention what Brohm did to get it started last year.
That's the point. He took over a sagging wreck of a bottom feeder in the Big 10 that has been and will always be a B1G bottom feeder in my lifetime, yet all the low class idiotic Purdoo fans who came over here to gloat as if they're on par with Alabama was enough to change my mind about how I hope things turn out for him there. He gets to stick it to them for a ridiculous salary, makes a lot of money then gets to move on to a real coaching job while the Purdoo fans get to whine about how great they could have been.
You don’t know that those seats would be filled with Brohm or will be empty with Satterfield. Like I’ve said so many times, it’s about this little thing called “winning”.
"Filled" and "empty" are extremes. I said 10,000 seats.
If we’d have signed Brohm you’d have said that we paid too much. I’ve been accused of being a pessimist more than once, you on the other hand live it 24-7. You’re constant pounding of the drum against the AD is a tired broken record.
Coach Dabo was close to being fired before his luck changed, which coincidentally had something to do with Spurrier retiring and USCjr not being able to win back recruits.
The one reality we can all agree with is if you don't recruit at a high level your not beating the brand names that recruit classes in the top 10 on a consistent basis. That is why you only are seeing brand names in the playoffs every year. That is the a sobering reality because 90 percent of the of the program's competing for titles have no shot.
I said that firing Petrino and hiring Brohm to the tune of $24 million was a boondoggle. We didn't have the money, and there was no chance that outlay would pay back anytime soon. In large part, I've said that was due to Brohm being overrated as a head coach. The Music City Bowl result didn't exactly make me look bad.
There's nothing hypothetical about the fan support for Brohm. It was overwhelming. People here like KR said "done deal", just a matter of time. Except for me, very few pushed back. (I said from the get-go that Brohm lost too many head scratchers.)
You're right. Brohm's popularity as U of L's next football coach was shaky at best...
Then why did "Vince" go after Brohm? Because they're both Trinity grads? Why was Brohm the #1 choice with no obvious 2nd until Brohm turned him down?
Of course not. There's absolutely no reason in the world, certainly nothing tangible, why you would go all in to get one guy over everyone else combined. Has nothing to do with money or fan support.
You were willing to pay $23 million to dump Petrino and get Brohm. But you weren't willing to pay $24 million. No lunacy in that.
Unlike many posters, 'zipp' knows how to focus on the issues...
We don’t know that for sure. Who knows if UCF puts on a better performance than Notre Dame. The CFP is slighted towards the P5 conferences. Also who’s to say that Georgia didn’t deserve it over OU but pundits didn’t want a rematch of SEC championship so there is some subjectivity built in as well.
